Rendering Ambient Occulsion pass.. How?

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  osman polycounter lvl 19

  Aug 2007

  Make sure you're rendering with Mental Ray.
  Now in the Render to Texture dialog you can add different kind of maps(diffuse,shadow,specular,normalsmap etc), if you have MR as your renderer you should be able to select Ambient Occlusion(MR).

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  MoP polycounter lvl 20

  Aug 2007

  Or if you don't want to use Mental Ray, just add a Skylight to the scene (remove or turn off all other lights), hit 9 (the keyboard toggle for Advanced Lighting menu), turn on the Light Tracer from the drop-down there.
  Then just go to the Render To Texture menu (keyboard toggle is 0) and add your mesh.
  
  Any more than that, read the Max Help on "Render to Texture" (also referred to as RTT) and the help on "Advanced Lighting" and the "Skylight", that will tell you all of the specific information.

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  diZzyWalnut polycounter lvl 20

  Aug 2007

  here's some tutos for You -
  
  
  
  
  
  http://www.everflow.com/support/tutorials/AO/Everflow_AmbientOcclusion1.html
  
  
  http://www.christopher-thomas.net/pages/...sion_shader.htm
  
  and some .pdf
  
  http://www.kevhayes.com/Docs/AOshadowmaps.pdf

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