All I wanted to know was whether I should turn on SSAO or not since it was a mysterious setting in graphics in WoW and this is what Wikipedia said about. So. yeah. WTF? please.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_space_ambient_occlusion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_space_ambient_occlusion)
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In short, ambient occlusion is how light interacts with two surfaces near each other. If you try and simulate it perfectly for every object in a scene then it takes quite a long time, so over the years we’ve developed techniques to fake it, one being SSAO, or Screen Space Ambient Occlusion, which only simulates ambient occlusion on surfaces the camera can see, and a very rough simulation at that. When done poorly it can leave a halo of darkness around objects for example.
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