Ambient Occlusion help

Pogo_Daddy

In my scene, I want ambient occlusion but its appearing inside the grate of my windows and blocks the light behind it. Is there anyway to turn ambient occlusion off of a specific object? I tried checking off "Allow ambient occlusion" in it's properties, but nothing happens.



I'm using Augest build. The grate part is a flat plane with a mask and is a single object with the windowframe. Thanks :]

Legend286

Pogo_Daddy wrote: »

In my scene, I want ambient occlusion but its appearing inside the grate of my windows and blocks the light behind it. Is there anyway to turn ambient occlusion off of a specific object? I tried checking off "Allow ambient occlusion" in it's properties, but nothing happens.



I'm using Augest build. The grate part is a flat plane with a mask and is a single object with the windowframe. Thanks :]

You should be able to disable AO on individual meshes if I recall correctly, try selecting it and using the search feature.

Pogo_Daddy

Legend286 wrote: »

You should be able to disable AO on individual meshes if I recall correctly, try selecting it and using the search feature.

I only found "Allow ambient occlusion" and it didn't change anything when I clicked it ]:

Legend286

Pogo_Daddy wrote: »

I only found "Allow ambient occlusion" and it didn't change anything when I clicked it ]:

Oh, it should.

SanderDL

Allow ambient occlusion applies only to AO baked in the light maps. The problem you seem to have is with SSAO. You can turn this off by making a custom post process chain and tweak the settings.

Bal

Just to clarify though, you can't turn SSAO on and off on different object, it's a global post process, so it's applied to the whole image using the depth of the scene. Do you have a plane behind your window for the whiteness? Maybe try moving it back more?

As SanderDL said, you should also tweak the default SSAO settings, which often aren't so great.

Pogo_Daddy

Thanks for the help :]

I was hoping I wouldn't have to create a post process chain, but after doing so, the icky shadows disapeared