Ambient Occlusion on background but not on characters (MAYA 2016)
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I've been trying to set up a nice minimalistic environment for a character animation and I wanted to go with the ambient occlusion look since it's clean and makes it so your full focus is on the characters. But the issue is that whenever I perform the AO, it always does it to the models too since I do it by layers, I've been trying to search up ways to make it so only my environment but not my characters are affected by it but to no avail, does someone know how to do this thing? I'm getting desperate since there doesn't seem to be any indication of it being possible in the internet....and if so, is there a way to at least simulate the effect?