Ambient Occlusion For Maya Users :)

[twocik23]

I've always loved the way it looks and never really understood how it's used (rendered in layers is my guess) ? Thought I'd share.


http://www.game-artist.net/forums/sp...hemist101.html



How does it work, nice examples here.

http://www-viz.tamu.edu/students/bmoyer/617/ambocc/

[twocik23]

Here are some pictures to check out. The first two are rendered in MR, GI + Caustics and brought together in the third picture with Photoshop. The AO on the bottom and other pic with color is at 30% opacity. Not really sure how the AO is really suppose to be layered, but gave it a try from what I've read. I played around with the settings a little from the TUT on the AO.



Any comments, help, pointers, etc.. Please feel free.

[twocik23]

Now that I look at it I might need to bring up the reflectivity & Cosine Power a little more on the Phongs (Head, legs, hands).