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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:
Am I missing something obvious ?

Thanks

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

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

ciao Beppe

Thanks, do you mean the info passes tab?:
I got this far, but I'm to sure how to combine that in the final render:
is this something I have to comp in post?

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

bepeg4d wrote: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