Forum: Carrara


Subject: Question about ambient occlusion

ravenous opened this issue on Oct 17, 2008 · 7 posts


ravenous posted Fri, 17 October 2008 at 8:01 AM

Quote - Mark that was a good description for the AO... and I dont use AO in a real basis... when I want indirect light (radiosity) I just wait it to render that is a better effect then only AO... and the final result for AO is just this more deeo shadow in dark areas... just to create more volume in the scene.

Are you talking about the setting "Full Indirect lighting"? Is that the same as radiosity? I'll take your word for it but what confuses me is that DAZ claim in the manual  that AO gives a more realistic light than full indirect lighting. Even though it's faster and just an approximation.

But you just confirmed my point, darker areas get darker when I use AO.