<div dir="ltr">The best thing for AO right now would be making it a texture or a feature like pointiness. Not a shader. Just like a noise texture that you can map into anything.<div><br><div>On top of that, making it perfect would be having options to:</div><div>- Be affected only by self occlussion / or by everything. (This way we can really make a shader with dirt that won't be changing as the scene animates unless you deform it)</div><div>- Be occluded only by diffuse shaders rays (This way a perfectly reflective sphere won't make occlussion on the shader)</div></div><div>- Being able to control distance by texture/shader.</div><div><br></div><div>That would be what everybody wants, specially vray users (Vray dirt has the options described).</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-04-22 4:12 GMT-03:00 Sergey Sharybin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sergey.vfx@gmail.com" target="_blank">sergey.vfx@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div>AO is kind of approximate anyway. If you see ways how to make it behave better for artists please go ahead and submit a patch.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Mohamed Sakr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:3dsakr@gmail.com" target="_blank">3dsakr@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<br><br>I find that the AO is somehow wrong, is there any targets to get it improved? if no close targets I can work on this one in the next few weeks.<br><br>cheers,<br>Mohamed Sakr</div>
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