Uploaded January 2015 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
This video demonstrates the screen-space ambient occlusion (SSAO) effect of ENB series for Skyrim. Ambient occlusion is an effect that calculates how exposed each point in a scene is to
ambient lighting; areas with less light exposure, like corners & crevices, are darkened accordingly.
ENB's implementation of SSAO is more sophisticated than most found in commercial games today; it respects lighting and transparency, and applies realistic darkening to affected areas rather than overlaying 'black blobs' as bound in some games.
(*cough* ... Far Cry 4 ... *cough*).
SSAO can be considered a 'sister effect' to screen-space indirect lighting (SSIL).
Recommended SSAO and SSIL effect settings -- and performance options -- for enbseries.ini:
-SSAO_SSIL-
EnableSupersampling=false -- set True for quality
UseIndirectLighting=true -- set False for performance
UseComplexIndirectLighting=true -- set False for performance
UseComplexAmbientOcclusion=true -- set False for performance
UseAmbientIndirectLighting=true -- set False for performance
SamplingQuality=0 -- set 1 or 2 for performance
SamplingPrecision=0
SamplingRange=0.25
FadeFogRange=0.5
SizeScale=0.6 -- reduce for performance
SourceTexturesScale=0.6 -- reduce for performance
EnableComplexFilter=true set False for performance
FilterQuality=0 -- set 1 or 2 for performanc
FilterType=2
AOAmount=2.0
AOAmountInterior=2.0
ILAmount=2.0
ILAmountInterior=0.5
AOIntensity=0.5
AOIntensityInterior=0.65
AOType=2
ILType=0
AOMixingType=1
AOMixingTypeInterior=0
EnableDenoiser=true
My YouTube Channel: youtube.com/c/tapioks
Enhanced Shaders NLA: nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/61206
ENB Official Website: enbdev.com
Captured with Shadowplay at 1920x1080 @30FPS on an ASUS G750JH laptop with an overclocked Nvidia GTX 780m 4GB GPU, Intel Core i7-4700HQ CPU @2.4 GHz, 24GB RAM
Music license info: bethblog.com/bethesda-video-policy
Infinite thanks to Bethesda Game Studios!
This video demonstrates the screen-space ambient occlusion (SSAO) effect of ENB series for Skyrim. Ambient occlusion is an effect that calculates how exposed each point in a scene is to
ambient lighting; areas with less light exposure, like corners & crevices, are darkened accordingly.
ENB's implementation of SSAO is more sophisticated than most found in commercial games today; it respects lighting and transparency, and applies realistic darkening to affected areas rather than overlaying 'black blobs' as bound in some games.
(*cough* ... Far Cry 4 ... *cough*).
SSAO can be considered a 'sister effect' to screen-space indirect lighting (SSIL).
Recommended SSAO and SSIL effect settings -- and performance options -- for enbseries.ini:
-SSAO_SSIL-
EnableSupersampling=false -- set True for quality
UseIndirectLighting=true -- set False for performance
UseComplexIndirectLighting=true -- set False for performance
UseComplexAmbientOcclusion=true -- set False for performance
UseAmbientIndirectLighting=true -- set False for performance
SamplingQuality=0 -- set 1 or 2 for performance
SamplingPrecision=0
SamplingRange=0.25
FadeFogRange=0.5
SizeScale=0.6 -- reduce for performance
SourceTexturesScale=0.6 -- reduce for performance
EnableComplexFilter=true set False for performance
FilterQuality=0 -- set 1 or 2 for performanc
FilterType=2
AOAmount=2.0
AOAmountInterior=2.0
ILAmount=2.0
ILAmountInterior=0.5
AOIntensity=0.5
AOIntensityInterior=0.65
AOType=2
ILType=0
AOMixingType=1
AOMixingTypeInterior=0
EnableDenoiser=true
My YouTube Channel: youtube.com/c/tapioks
Enhanced Shaders NLA: nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/61206
ENB Official Website: enbdev.com
Captured with Shadowplay at 1920x1080 @30FPS on an ASUS G750JH laptop with an overclocked Nvidia GTX 780m 4GB GPU, Intel Core i7-4700HQ CPU @2.4 GHz, 24GB RAM
Music license info: bethblog.com/bethesda-video-policy
Infinite thanks to Bethesda Game Studios!
