How to render a ambient occlusion pass?

[WESTON_WILLIAMSON]

Does anyone know what vfb should be used to render an ambient occlusion pass?
I have read a few max forums, but none of the answers seem to transfer across to skpvray.

I want to be able to control the ambient occlusion in post processing in photoshop.

cheers

[TOM_cg]

Re: How to render a ambient occlusion pass?

Hi,

I did a render setting to fake an ambient occlusion pass, could that help you ?

[dkendig]

Re: How to render a ambient occlusion pass?

The latest version of our software does have Ambient Occulusion. It's in the render options under Indirect Illumination.

[thomthom]

Re: How to render a ambient occlusion pass?

The latest version of our software does have Ambient Occulusion. It's in the render options under Indirect Illumination.

But can we render out just the AO layer? Does it exist as an VFB layer?

[TOM_cg]

Re: How to render a ambient occlusion pass?

What I would do is render a new image with material override and ambient occlusion ON.
There you'll have your AO layer separated.

[fpedrogo]

Re: How to render a ambient occlusion pass?

What I would do is render a new image with material override and ambient occlusion ON.
There you'll have your AO layer separated.

Yes, that is the way to render a AO pass, because we don't have an AO channel.

Best

[edonk]

Re: How to render a ambient occlusion pass?

If you ever do an update, then a seperate AO pass would be great

[vjaramillo_cg]

Re: How to render a ambient occlusion pass?

We just purchased VR for SKP and I can't seem to find the ambient occlusion option in the Indirect Illumination tab. Am I missing something?

SKP 7 plus the latest Vray for SKP.

Vince

[fpedrogo]

Re: How to render a ambient occlusion pass?

We just purchased VR for SKP and I can't seem to find the ambient occlusion option in the Indirect Illumination tab. Am I missing something?

The ambient occlusion option is available only in the new build 1.48.... not in our old build 1.05.30.

best

[vjaramillo_cg]

Re: How to render a ambient occlusion pass?

So how do we get the new build? Do we just download from the website or is there a cost for the upgrade?

Vince

[thomthom]

Re: How to render a ambient occlusion pass?

Download from the Support section. Free upgrade.