Ambient Occlusion for path tracing / pmc

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Weltkarte
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Joined: Thu Jun 27, 2013 5:30 pm

Hi there,

when compositing video footage it were nice to add some ambient occlusion to the scene in addtion to shadows, especially to have some contact shadows when an object stands on a surface. Is there any way to do this with path tracing without using direct lighting?

Thanks

Thies
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bepeg4d
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Hi Thies,
it is not possible directly, but you can render in PT or PMC with an AO info render pass and compose it later in post:
https://docs.otoy.com/manuals/products/ ... fo-passes/
ciao beppe
Weltkarte
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Joined: Thu Jun 27, 2013 5:30 pm

Hi Beppe,

thanks for the hint, I will try it out.

Cheers

Thies
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