topic says it all. I think its obvious to have ao as a pass.
Thanks.
that WOULD be awesome. but how would you indicate various settings?
in the newer builds we have renderelement integration and all elements can have custom settings…but it would rise rendertimes and possibly need a re-render in order to work i assume…vlado?
Thorsten
I can’t see a way to calculate an AO pass without calculating it 
It WOULD take more time.
I assume Morbid Angel meant to be able to render it as a pass.
On the other hand, with a replacement mat, it should be a one click pass already…
Lele
yes, but when I go to render elements and select 10 pases to output, I shouldnt have to make a separate scene just for ao.
So all you’d ask is basically that you have a check for an AO pass, and VRay does the material override bit for you?
If that’s the case, I am not sure i can script passes, but i might give it a go
Notwithstanding the fact that i have no AO material with 47.03, i can try and see if it allows for the same operation with a standard vray material.
Lele
well another part of the equation would be that i’d like to see it included as a renderelement because that would allow it to be included as an openexr layer instead of an extra file.
Thorsten
Pardon me, but what app would you use to extract a custom layer off an EXR?
This baffles me.
Afaik one has to write a channel Writer to store it, and then plug a reader into some application to extract that.
What am i missing?
Lele
Nuke?
Combustion needs support for exr channels! 
Exr sounds better than rpf, i mean i like the order of the letters the most. 
yep…nuke reads them all…and we got our first nuke license a while back and gotta admit that i really like it.
Thorsten
aaaaaw!
I didn’t know that.
So basically i just need, herm, let’s see…
Price undicsclosed.
Good.
Cheap shit
I *think* for the time being i’d rather save an added file (exr, why not:P) for the AO pass
Even though, i admit, version 4.5 looks pukka. I sat through a custom demo of an earlier versio (2?) a few years back, and that made me half laugh and half cringe…
Seems working with the big boys does marvels to developement.
Lele