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The Ambient/Reflective Occlusion Shader in Mental Ray For visual feedback, this is a good way to achieve this result, although it is also possible to split the Occlusion out into a render element alongside the beauty render. Final Gather, exposure and Global Illumination should all be turned off to allow the shader to create its independent ambient calculation. The first, and arguably the most flexible way to do it is to place the Ambient/Reflective Occlusion material into the surface shader option of a MR material and then drag this into the material override slot, which can be found in the processing tab of the render dialog (F9). In Mental Ray there are two native ways of bringing this shader into effect. AO For Mental Ray Create a separate render pass
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In many areas of the graphics world, having this control is absolutely vital to achieving a look, saving time or providing a professional service (Or all of these). This allows for a much faster turn around than using a high density Final Gather pass and it puts a lot more of the responsibility for the final look in the hands of the artist. An ambient occlusion pass can therefore be created to supplement this quicker solution and bring back contrast into the image. For instance, Final Gather is an approximated method of lighting, this means that creating a map with a lower point density spread over a larger ‘smoothed’ catchment area will be a very quick (And dirty) way of computing a lighting pass for Mental Ray, but it will also often lead to areas of the scene losing definition. Consequently, there are multiple reasons why you might want to make use of an Ambient Occlusion shader and an example could be the need to reduce render time during an animation.
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Project deadlines, problems in a model, or even just a specific look, or challenge requires knowledge of a wide variety of techniques within the software and at many points during a commission constraints may arise that require the use of more than just a ‘brute force’ approach. People might put forward that facade, especially those that do not use the software on a daily basis to justify a certain approach, but in reality the software packages, shaders and renderers are tools that are only as successful as the people that use them. Working in 3D graphics is never as simple as clicking a button to create a beautiful image. Often this occurs within a material, or directly in the renderer and ways to do both are shown both for VRay and Mental Ray later in this post.
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Yes! It is possible to achieve a very good lighting setup straight out of commercial renderers, that provide multiple methods to achieve very accurate contact and weighted shadowing. But this was over ten years ago? Surely you can generate these shadows using methods now? Ambient renders at the time provided environmental light, but it was very one dimensional and did not take into account the necessary falloff that occurred when light bounced around and under geometry. Specifically, its ambition was to develop a better model to ‘weight’ shadows and contact areas between geometry and complicated shaded sections of a scene. Historically in computer graphics, Ambient Occlusion was created to solve the problem of unnatural looking indirect illumination. It therefore calculates based on their visibility how much shading the pixels should get. If any is found, the percentage of blockage translates directly to an occlusion factor.” (Van der Steen 2007: 14). The amount of shading is distinguished by how much of the geometry is hidden, or blocked, “What happens internally is that the area above the point to be shaded is sampled for blocking geometry. The key to this technique is to make a single ray-traced occlusion pass that is generated independently of the final lighting and final rendering.”. The theory behind ambient occlusion is that there is an ever present light source in the scene (Irrespective of our lighting system). Created in 2001 by artists at ILM for the film Pearl Harbour after being challenged by Michael Bay, it was a natural evolution of the reflective occlusion shaders created for the proceeding film, Speed 2, “Ambient occlusion was a way of trying to address global illumination and ray tracing but with far less expense. Unlike Final Gather and Photon lighting, that are concerned with bounced light and multi-bounce transparency, it focuses on detailing the absence of light in order to develop a successful shading method. A frequent way of adding natural shadow falloff and density into areas of an image is ambient occlusion. On top of the methods mentioned above (which are only a few techniques), there are further ways to supplement and provide depth to lighting within an image. Before checking out this post you might want to check out a few other popular 3D lighting techniques! What is Ambient Occlusion?