AO baked into render without using GI?

[Arjan Jacques]

Hi,

I would like to bake AO into my animation frames. The scene does not use GI so I can not activate AO on that tab.
And I do not want to use a seperate pass and multiply in AE
any ideas on how to achieve this?

Thanks!

[Morbid Angel]

the only way you could do this is probably put your final material/texture through a blend and multiply it by AO map.

[Arjan Jacques]

Yes that will work and still let me finetune the amount of AO.
thanks!

[Laserschwert]

You can also use a VRayAmbientLight with a VRayDirt map as its lightmap.

[Arjan Jacques]

Thank you! Just did a quick test and it works like a charm. Elegant solution!