Ambient occlusion for daz studio 4.5?

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• 3dcheapskate Posts: 2,689

  September 2012 edited September 2012

  Check this recent thread Question about ambient occlusion

  Hope that helps!

  Post edited by 3dcheapskate on September 2012
• ReDave Posts: 815

  September 2012 edited December 1969

  Hi Melbards, welcome!
  DAZ Studio has at least three ways of doing AO, the simplest being using UberEnvironment which you can find in DAZ Studio Formats->My Library->Light Presets->omnifreaker->UberEnvironment2. Double click on the !UberEnvironment2 Base (first icon) and then on any of the available image maps (or none if you want a pure-AO look).
  A second way is by using Shader Mixer, which is a bit more involved. Open SM, and go to Functions->Lighting->Shadows and drag or double click on Ambient Occlusion which will spawn the AO brick in the middle of the screen. Drag its C connector to Diffuse Strength, make sure a surface you want it applied to is selected and press Apply.
  A third way is with the AO point-cloud script in the render settings/Advanced, select "Scripted 3Delight" as Render Engine, then the "Point Based Occlusion" script.
• Mattymanx Posts: 6,879

  September 2012 edited December 1969

  pwSurface2 is an option as well. It is a surface shader and will allow you to control the AO per surface.

  You can check out the online guide to check out its different functions here - http://www.poseworks.com/shaders/pwsurface2/

  pwSurface2 can be purchased from the DAZ3D Store here - http://www.daz3d.com/shop/pwsurface-2

  And I have 30 free presets for pwS2 - http://www.mediafire.com/?vc2l6wuibcd616f
• stormqq Posts: 76

  March 2016

  ReDave said:

  Hi Melbards, welcome!
  DAZ Studio has at least three ways of doing AO, the simplest being using UberEnvironment which you can find in DAZ Studio Formats->My Library->Light Presets->omnifreaker->UberEnvironment2. Double click on the !UberEnvironment2 Base (first icon) and then on any of the available image maps (or none if you want a pure-AO look).
  A second way is by using Shader Mixer, which is a bit more involved. Open SM, and go to Functions->Lighting->Shadows and drag or double click on Ambient Occlusion which will spawn the AO brick in the middle of the screen. Drag its C connector to Diffuse Strength, make sure a surface you want it applied to is selected and press Apply.
  A third way is with the AO point-cloud script in the render settings/Advanced, select "Scripted 3Delight" as Render Engine, then the "Point Based Occlusion" script.

  can you explain this part properly please?

  "make sure a surface you want it applied to is selected and press Apply."

   
• fixmypcmike Posts: 19,565

  March 2016

  stormqq said:

  ReDave said:

  Hi Melbards, welcome!
  DAZ Studio has at least three ways of doing AO, the simplest being using UberEnvironment which you can find in DAZ Studio Formats->My Library->Light Presets->omnifreaker->UberEnvironment2. Double click on the !UberEnvironment2 Base (first icon) and then on any of the available image maps (or none if you want a pure-AO look).
  A second way is by using Shader Mixer, which is a bit more involved. Open SM, and go to Functions->Lighting->Shadows and drag or double click on Ambient Occlusion which will spawn the AO brick in the middle of the screen. Drag its C connector to Diffuse Strength, make sure a surface you want it applied to is selected and press Apply.
  A third way is with the AO point-cloud script in the render settings/Advanced, select "Scripted 3Delight" as Render Engine, then the "Point Based Occlusion" script.

  can you explain this part properly please?

  "make sure a surface you want it applied to is selected and press Apply."

  Shaders can be applied to any surface, so you need to select the item in the Scene pane or Viewport, and also select the surfaces you want to apply the shader to in the Surfaces pane.