VRay for SketchUp 3 - Ambient Occlusion

[coreym]

Hello.

Can anybody advise the best way to create a Ambient Occlusion layer in VRay for SketchUp 3?

I've turned on AO under Global Illumination but still not looking as i would expect.

Wondering why there isn't an option for AO in render elements?!

Cheers

Corey

[delineator]

oh but there is! Add an extratex render element, and apply the texdirt shader to that (can't screencap right now). I believe my default radius is somewhere between 20-40. This will give you AO that is not burnt into the image, so you can level adjust in post as needed

[Peter.Chaushev]

Hello,
As Delineator already explained, you can add an ExtraTex render channel with slotted Dirt texture (mode set to "Ambient occlusion").

Kind regards,
Peter

[coreym]

Thanks guys, i used that technique and got some decent results. Thanks again!

[Micha]

Small wish: could be nice to get a flag option to temporary disable render elements. So, f.ex. the AO output could temporary disabled without the delete the AO setup.

[delineator]

I'd be into that - sometimes I just need a quick preview or something, and the only one you can switch off is denoiser. Would be helpful once your so far into the project that you don't want to unload/reload settings, but at the same time you just need to spot check something real quick.

[konstantin_chaos]

Hi guys,

We have the render elements Enable/Disable functionality on our todo list.
You can expect it in one of the future updates.

Konstantin

[Peter.Chaushev]

Adding toggle buttons (same as the Denoiser one) to all custom render channels is something which is already planned for the next major release.

Kind regards,
Peter

[Micha]

Thanks.