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Re: How to bake an ambient occlusion map in Max8?
Yup - I've found you need that little bit in the diffuse, otherwise in soft light everything looks just that little bit too flat. -
Re: How to bake an ambient occlusion map in Max8?
Rick: Just curious, why would you need the AO layer to punch out highlights? Surely the spec map will cover that? Or have you found it gives better final results if you subtly push the highlights in the diffuse too? I tend to just use a single Multiply layer. -
Re: How to bake an ambient occlusion map in Max8?
As far as I know you turn on MR, then apply a self illuminated material with ambient occlusion assigned to the diffuse. You then render with shadows turned off and bobs your ambient uncle. A quicker HACK that works well is to drop an omnilight into the scene at exactly 0,0,0 and set it to ambient only. Then in the…
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