Working on lighting for my cozy town building game. Here is an experiment to see how far screen space lighting can be taken.

Happy with how well it works already, but will be a lot more stable when combined with some low res but more accurate radiance/visibility information.

I'm working on a AO and GI for my game. For that reason I'm extending Mirko Salm's GT-VBAO (in turn based on @volfaze.bsky.social's work).

I've done two things so far:
- Sampling a distant light instead of computing AO
- Added a heuristic for estimating occluder thickness

Details and links below