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HBAO+ is a native C++ implementation of NVIDIA's Horizon-Based Ambient Occlusion Plus for Unreal Engine 5. It provides a substantial upgrade in visual quality over the engine's default SSAO, delivering sharper contact shadows, cleaner occlusion, and significantly fewer artifacts across all scene types.

Features:

• High Quality Sharper and more accurate than Unreal's built-in SSAO, with better defined contact shadows.

• Full Resolution Captures fine geometric detail that downscaled techniques miss.

• Minimal Artifacts Reduces halo bleeding and over-occlusion common in standard SSAO.

• Lumen Ready

• No Setup Required Drop into any existing project without changes to materials or lighting.

Deferred renderer only, Forward renderer is not supported

Note: Images marked with the GT-VBAO watermark are used for reference comparison only and are not included with this plugin.