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I´d like to share my workflow in AO mode renders. It´s pretty basic and obvious, but I´m sure someone will find it useful.

First of all, when you load your obj, you get this, in gamma 1.0:


In interiors is better to work in a 2.2 gamma space, so tweak it:


Then adjust the AO distance, to get the better shading you can:


It is always a good idea to have some daylight into the room, so add an environment:


To finish it, give it some love into photoshop, so you get the best enhancement of your render:


I hope you´ll find it useful. It´s a very basic procedure, but Ive found its a good way for fast interiors.

Thanks a lot for the tutorial Paquito!
I'm trying to get good results with AO mode but unfortunatley sometimes seems to work good and some others bad (most of the time bad )
I'll certainly try your seggestions (I'm sure that they will be helpful).
I added a test from a pre-modeled scene (all materials was from the conversion), I just wanted to find out a correct illumination in AO mode; seems not too bad but another problem now: I love the bloom effect, but it's not easy to tweak because at too low value seems not applied, and at higher values it foggy/grainy out the scene ...have ny suggestion about?.

Thanks again, Paolo

You must be aware that the bloom effect should be very well justified if you want it to look right. Personally I don´t use the octane bloom, since I´m used to fake it in photoshop. Could you post the render without bloom? I could post some screenshots to build a tutorial on faking bloom in photoshop the way I do.

Nice thanks for the share!

thank you for this tutorial, still i can't understand the steps, just talk about image 1, image 2, image 3 but none values in the setting, just gamma 2.2, i mean, camera value ? glossines, diffuse, specular, etc, etc ?
regards

Just take it as something visual. I don´t need parameters to make it work. For example in the AO distance, I don´t even know the number to put in the box. I just move the slider until I get the desired effect. Forget about camera values, material parameters, etc... just follow this steps visually to get a nice AO shading. This is just about the shading of the scene in terms of lightning, Im not explaining about making materials and the like, just telling you how I light my scenes.

here is the unbloomed render

Here is your scene with my bloom. Always try to be subtle.

certainly better if compared with the one with the internal bloom effect,

did you used the threshold level?

What do you mean with threshold level?