MentalRay ambient occlusion script 3DS MAX 7,8,9

diZzyWalnut

Hi ;
I've found this script by hasard and
I hope that this script You will find useful ,cause it's very easy to use with a cool result.

link : MentalRay ambient occlusion 1.0.0


Here's my "ao rendering tets" :

Valandar

Why do you need a script for that?

1 ) Set Mental Ray as renderer
2 ) In "Environment", set background color to white, global lighting from 1 to 0.
3 ) Set material to white, put Ambient Occlusion in the Self-Illum map slot, play with settings.
4 ) Bake away.

Jonathan

This is a nice script. I remember using it a while back.

Makes it a little quicker when you're just wanting to test it.

sir-knight

scuse the noobness of the question, but what's the use of baking the AO map? to make a quick and dirty shadow map to paint the texture with?

Valandar

An AO map also helps point out where the grooves and that are, make a great overlay on low poly meshes to make the whole thing pop in a game engine that doesn't have any AO type thing, and any number of uses.

Jonathan

Yep.

Even in CryEngine 2/Crysis, according to Crytek you should still bake a little ambient occlusion into the model (varies with what type of model), but even their characters use a little baked in ambient occlusion, and it just accompanies the simulated real-time ambient occlusion, while also maintaining some of the visuals for those who can't run the game with such shadow quality.

diZzyWalnut

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Why do you need a script for that?

1 ) Set Mental Ray as renderer
2 ) In "Environment", set background color to white, global lighting from 1 to 0.
3 ) Set material to white, put Ambient Occlusion in the Self-Illum map slot, play with settings.
4 ) Bake away.

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I didn't ask anything, I've just found this script and I share out , that's all.
Somebody can like it and find it useful.

To answer Your question :

Well , how I've sad before - the script is easy and fast to use with a cool result. It reduce Your 4 steps in a only one = Render AO.
SO YOU DON'T NEED
1 ) Set Mental Ray as renderer
2 ) In "Environment", set background color to white, global lighting from 1 to 0.
3 ) Set material to white, put Ambient Occlusion in the Self-Illum map slot, play with settings.
4 ) Bake away

Mark Dygert

Awesome, I'm going to see if I can incorporate this script into my "make template" script and save me even more time. That is if I can get it to render out a texture instead of a render preview.

Thanks for the link

pior

Thanks a ton Dizzy! Very handy and it comes just at the right time also :P