stonemason opened this issue on May 12, 2008 · 62 posts
bagginsbill posted Tue, 13 May 2008 at 5:28 PM
From the Kerkythea manual - maybe they made this up. :)
Ambient Occlusion (AO) is a ratio of how much ambient light a surface point would be likely to receive. It simulates a huge dome light surrounding the entire scene. If a surface point is under a foot or table, it will end up much darker than the top of someone's head or the tabletop.
It doesn't qualify this as "limited to solid polygons - transmaps will be ignored."
This sure sounds like Poser's IBL+AO
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