Implementing Three.js SSAOPass in AFrame - html

Question

I was able to successfully integrate Threejs Effect composer in aframe as a component by exporting everything as THREE.Effectcomposer, THREE.SSAOPass etc. and adding the effect inside a aframe component and i tweaked the AFrame renderer to update the effects in the scene. OutlinePass from threejs worked fine in this code but SSAO is not working and i don't get any errors. Please someone help me figure out the problem. the code for SSAOPass looks like this
AFRAME.registerComponent('ssao', {
init: function () {
this.el.addEventListener('that', evt => this.onEnter());
this.el.addEventListener('mouseleave', evt => this.onLeave());
setTimeout(() => this.el.emit("that"), 2000);
},
onEnter: function () {
const scene = this.el.sceneEl.object3D;
const camera = this.el.sceneEl.camera;
const renderer = this.el.sceneEl.renderer;
const render = renderer.render;
const composer = new THREE.EffectComposer(renderer);
//let renderPass = new THREE.RenderPass(scene, camera);
//let outlinePass = new THREE.OutlinePass(new THREE.Vector2(window.innerWidth, window.innerHeight), scene, camera);
const ssaoPass = new THREE.SSAOPass( scene, camera, window.innerWidth, window.innerHeight );
//composer.addPass(renderPass);
//composer.addPass(outlinePass);
ssaoPass.kernelRadius = 16;
composer.addPass( ssaoPass );
// let objects = [];
// this.el.object3D.traverse(node => {
// if (!node.isMesh) return;
// objects.push(node);
// });
// outlinePass.selectedObjects = objects;
// outlinePass.renderToScreen = true;
// outlinePass.edgeStrength = this.data.strength;
// outlinePass.edgeGlow = this.data.glow;
// outlinePass.visibleEdgeColor.set(this.data.color);
// HACK the AFRAME render method (a bit ugly)
const clock = new THREE.Clock();
this.originalRenderMethod = render;
let calledByComposer = false;
renderer.render = function () {
if (calledByComposer) {
render.apply(renderer, arguments);
} else {
calledByComposer = true;
composer.render(clock.getDelta());
calledByComposer = false;
}
};
},
onLeave: function () {
this.el.sceneEl.renderer.render = this.originalRenderMethod;
},
remove: function () {
this.onLeave();
}
});
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Answer 1

The code is correct, all you need is to tweak the exposed SSAOShader uniforms: SSAOPass.kernelRadius, SSAOPass.minDistance, SSAOPass.maxDistance - like in the Three.js example.
Keep in mind - the scale in the example is huge, so the values will need to be different in a default aframe scene.
It's a good idea to be able to dynamically update a component (via setAttribute() if you properly handle updates), so you can see what's going on in realtime. Something like I did here - SSAO in a-frame (also based on Don McCurdys gist.
I've used some basic HTML elements, most threejs examples use dat.GUI - it is made for demo / debug tweaks.