Ambient Occlusion

[atoyuser1]

I am trying to render ambient occlusion (with shadows from the lights disabled)

I have played with the AO distance, but it doesn't seem to have an affect:

Ambient Occlusion

Am I missing something obvious ?

Thanks

[atoyuser1]

for reference, what I'm trying to create is something like this

[bepeg4d]

Have you tried with Kernel/InfoChannel/AO?
You can also enable it as separate pass.

ciao Beppe

[atoyuser1]

Thanks, do you mean the info passes tab?:

info passes tab

I got this far, but I'm to sure how to combine that in the final render:

layer view

is this something I have to comp in post?

[bepeg4d]

In general, the AO pass is Multiplied over the Beaty.
From next OctaneX major SDK update, you will be abler to do this directly in Live View, thanks to the new Compo AOVs system.

ciao Beppe

[atoyuser1]

In general, the AO pass is Multiplied over the Beaty.
From next OctaneX major SDK update, you will be abler to do this directly in Live View, thanks to the new Compo AOVs system.

ciao Beppe

Cool thanks. for now I just rendered out the pass and overlaid it with 'multiply' blend mode. It's a bit murky, but will do the job