# SSAO properties not applied in my project **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions\ **Tags:** postprocessing\ **Created:** [August 14, 2024, 11:45am UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/ssao-properties-not-applied-in-my-project/52799 "2024-08-14T11:45:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mrmmatricks](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/forum.babylonjs.com/mrmmatricks/32/35472_2.png) [@mrmmatricks](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/mrmmatricks)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 11:45am UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/ssao-properties-not-applied-in-my-project/52799/1 "2024-08-14T11:45:13Z")
Hello! I am using the SSAO2 Pipeline but I can’t set properties liek samples and strength on it in my code. I copied my setup code into this playground: [Babylon.js Playground](https://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#XDMGGH) In the playground this code works. The samples and strengths are set to the correct values. But in my environment (with a more complex surrounding setup) when I set the samples and strength nothing changes in the effect (also no value change in the inspector). I am quite at a loss how to even start debugging that. Any clues? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![labris](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/forum.babylonjs.com/labris/32/12576_2.png) [@labris](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/labris)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 12:16pm UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/ssao-properties-not-applied-in-my-project/52799/2 "2024-08-14T12:16:03Z")
Do you have any console errors? ---
**Author:** ![mrmmatricks](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/forum.babylonjs.com/mrmmatricks/32/35472_2.png) [@mrmmatricks](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/mrmmatricks)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 12:25pm UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/ssao-properties-not-applied-in-my-project/52799/3 "2024-08-14T12:25:21Z")
Nope, no error, warnings or other messages. It just does nothing. ---
**Author:** ![RaananW](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/forum.babylonjs.com/raananw/32/28955_2.png) [@RaananW](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/RaananW)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 12:31pm UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/ssao-properties-not-applied-in-my-project/52799/4 "2024-08-14T12:31:09Z")
Would you be able to share the project? Some more information on the way it is built? This could be related to side effects not loaded, but then I would expect some form of a console error, which you are saying are not present. ---
**Author:** ![mrmmatricks](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/forum.babylonjs.com/mrmmatricks/32/35472_2.png) [@mrmmatricks](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/mrmmatricks)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 12:53pm UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/ssao-properties-not-applied-in-my-project/52799/5 "2024-08-14T12:53:03Z")
Sadly no. It’s quite a big project with a bigg-ish build & content pipeline attached. It’s one of those “Let’s just activate SSAO at the end” type of scenarios 😃 ---
**Author:** ![RaananW](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/forum.babylonjs.com/raananw/32/28955_2.png) [@RaananW](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/RaananW)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 12:56pm UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/ssao-properties-not-applied-in-my-project/52799/6 "2024-08-14T12:56:25Z")
The best scenarios! and of course it should be working… Are you using es6? @babylonjs/core? ---
**Author:** ![mrmmatricks](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/forum.babylonjs.com/mrmmatricks/32/35472_2.png) [@mrmmatricks](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/mrmmatricks)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 12:58pm UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/ssao-properties-not-applied-in-my-project/52799/7 "2024-08-14T12:58:38Z")
I just found some Babylon warnings! But they don’t seem like a big issue? > [Violation] ‘setTimeout’ handler took 126ms - scene.ts:2303 > [Violation] ‘setTimeout’ handler took 126ms - scene.ts:2303 > [Violation] ‘load’ handler took 191ms - fileTools.ts:260 ---
**Author:** ![RaananW](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/forum.babylonjs.com/raananw/32/28955_2.png) [@RaananW](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/RaananW)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 12:59pm UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/ssao-properties-not-applied-in-my-project/52799/8 "2024-08-14T12:59:12Z")
i doubt these are related ---
**Author:** ![labris](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/forum.babylonjs.com/labris/32/12576_2.png) [@labris](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/labris)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 1:16pm UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/ssao-properties-not-applied-in-my-project/52799/9 "2024-08-14T13:16:50Z")
Is your SSAO pipeline visible in Inspector? ---
**Author:** ![shaderbytes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/forum.babylonjs.com/shaderbytes/32/174_2.png) [@shaderbytes](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/shaderbytes)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 2:15pm UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/ssao-properties-not-applied-in-my-project/52799/11 "2024-08-14T14:15:57Z")
I have actually seen similar behaviour like you describe once in a project of my own , it was user error on my side , creating the ssao more than once I think. then adding it doesnt actually add , as it has one already. Then the changes to your code do nothing ( and dont update the inspector either ) because its not actually pointing to the ssao currently in use in the scene ---
**Author:** ![mrmmatricks](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/forum.babylonjs.com/mrmmatricks/32/35472_2.png) [@mrmmatricks](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/mrmmatricks)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 7:08pm UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/ssao-properties-not-applied-in-my-project/52799/12 "2024-08-14T19:08:42Z")
Yes it is. This is where i can see that the values are not set. ---
**Author:** ![mrmmatricks](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/forum.babylonjs.com/mrmmatricks/32/35472_2.png) [@mrmmatricks](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/mrmmatricks)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 7:09pm UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/ssao-properties-not-applied-in-my-project/52799/13 "2024-08-14T19:09:35Z")
Yea, had something like that happen to me once as well 😉 But sadly not in this case. It’s just instantiated once. ---
**Author:** ![labris](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/forum.babylonjs.com/labris/32/12576_2.png) [@labris](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/labris)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 7:16pm UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/ssao-properties-not-applied-in-my-project/52799/14 "2024-08-14T19:16:13Z")
Could you check if values are set or not at the end of your code adding ```auto console.log(scene.postProcessRenderPipelineManager) ``` ---
**Author:** ![mrmmatricks](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/forum.babylonjs.com/mrmmatricks/32/35472_2.png) [@mrmmatricks](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/mrmmatricks)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2024, 4:04pm UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/ssao-properties-not-applied-in-my-project/52799/15 "2024-08-15T16:04:34Z")
I went home yesterday, today I started the project up again and the values are set correctly. That smells a little bit like some race condition somewhere… I am not doing something fancy with threading or something (at least not to my knowledge). Makes it even harder to find. But thanks so far! ---
**Author:** ![sebavan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/forum.babylonjs.com/sebavan/32/57_2.png) [@sebavan](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/sebavan)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2024, 4:53pm UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/ssao-properties-not-applied-in-my-project/52799/16 "2024-08-15T16:53:14Z")
Are you using latest as there were a few changes on post processes recently cc @Deltakosh as it might be related to async load of shaders ? ---
**Author:** ![Deltakosh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/forum.babylonjs.com/deltakosh/32/26635_2.png) [@Deltakosh](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/Deltakosh)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2024, 5:20pm UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/ssao-properties-not-applied-in-my-project/52799/17 "2024-08-15T17:20:08Z")
Unfortunately with no repro I cannot help ☹ ---
**Author:** ![11128](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/d07c76/32.png) [@11128](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/11128)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2024, 1:52am UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/ssao-properties-not-applied-in-my-project/52799/18 "2024-08-16T01:52:27Z")
Did you declare a camera in the 4th parameter? ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/uploads/babylonjs/original/3X/4/4/4463ac6587b3e080f557169839c24e0c41a22c66.png) ---
**Author:** ![withADoveInOneHand](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/forum.babylonjs.com/withadoveinonehand/32/1243_2.png) [@withADoveInOneHand](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/withADoveInOneHand)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2024, 5:34am UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/ssao-properties-not-applied-in-my-project/52799/19 "2024-08-16T05:34:33Z")
i had the impression ssao and fxaa were exclusionary at the moment I think vignettes do the same thing yall doin somethin special? ---
**Author:** ![mrmmatricks](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/forum.babylonjs.com/mrmmatricks/32/35472_2.png) [@mrmmatricks](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/mrmmatricks)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 8:23am UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/ssao-properties-not-applied-in-my-project/52799/20 "2024-08-19T08:23:18Z")
Yes, we are using the vignette feature. But I guess that was not the problem since the SSAO was applied (just very ugly because of too little samples :D) ---
**Author:** ![mrmmatricks](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/forum.babylonjs.com/mrmmatricks/32/35472_2.png) [@mrmmatricks](https://forum.babylonjs.com/u/mrmmatricks)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 8:24am UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/ssao-properties-not-applied-in-my-project/52799/21 "2024-08-19T08:24:18Z")
Yes we did declare a camera as well. Did not change anything.