is theere an "Mr AO arch and design" script (3ds max)

maze

Hi,

I was wondering if someone knows if there is such thing as an MR arch & design AO global toggler for all the "AD" materials on the scene. This will be very usefull instead of manually setting every shader or desactivating each shader AO.

I want to make some tests on whether it is more fast/precise to use this ao function against doing a regular AO overall pass.

Thanks in advanced.

r_fletch_r

the straight bake is going to be much faster. You dont need to calculate half as much stuff as with Arch and Design.

maze

Hi, yes I agree that for bakes it won't be that fast, but I was talking more about rendering itself, for stills. I am doing a cg environment and wasn't sure if rendering an ao pass or a beauty with the ao baked in (A&D) to then composite them in nuke with the other channels. And I wanted to test accuracy/speed between those two methods with a material toggler.

Anyways I was just wondering if such thing existed. Thanks

r_fletch_r

personally I'd say bake it as a pass and comp it on after. you get more control that way. just make sure you don't just multiply it over the final image directly.

mask your indirect diffuse with it and then ADD that

maze

Yes thats what I will end up doing too I think. Thanks for sharing your thought.

As for the script, just in case you want to take a look I found it while lurking around:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4138955/drop3d/3DS/Ess_changeADMatProps_UTILITY.mcr

Although I couldnt get it to work, it opens but id does not apply/remove ao, maybe you'll have better luck if you want to test it.

Cheers.

maze

Also found this, I thought someone might find it useful:
http://raw.bluefile.cz/?p=101