ambient occulsion object exclude

[stevesideas]

The title says it all. Would be very useful if I could exclude the walls in a scene so that I do not have darkened corners when using this option.

[vlado]

You can make the walls invisible to GI, but then it's probably not exactly what you need.

Best regards,
Vlado

[stevesideas]

Yeah. I turned off the GI on an object that didnt need any GI, but ideally it would be good to have an include/exclude object selection with the AO similar to the light rollout.

[Neilg]

Are you rendering it as a seperate pass?

If you use the vray light mtl with dirt inside method, you could save a copy of your scene and instead of using overide just ctrl-a and apply it to all, then select the objects you dont want it on and apply a blank material.

[stevesideas]

Yeah, I did know about that method. It was just a option I thought would be useful

[Morbid Angel]

doesnt occlusion have incl/excl already?

[stevesideas]

...mine doesnt

[Morbid Angel]

what vray version are you on? since sp3 vray amb occlusion has include/exclude ui where one can select which objects are affected by ao.

[stevesideas]

Im on sp3a. You are talking about the ao in the indirect illumination rollout ?

[Morbid Angel]

i guess im not getting the point of this thread. Its titled: ambient occulsion object exclude

which is what Im replying to. What exactly are you asking then?

[stevesideas]

The AO feature in the indirect illumination rollout processes has an AO pass that renders in combination with the rest of the setup. I was hoping for an include/exclude ability for this feature....im not makng it that complicated

[Morbid Angel]

ahh...live and learn