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Ambient Occlusion in SVN

  Published by brian on January 23rd, 2008 in Blender Institute, Development, Peach

aocompare1.pngOn the Peach blog, Brecht introduced a new method of Ambient Occlusion called Approximate Ambient Occlusion. At the time of the post it was not available in the SVN, so in turn not available for use by the masses. But that has changed you can now find builds on graphicall.

More information is also available at Blender.org. And a thread at Blenderartists is open to discuss the feature.

Again see graphicall for builds with the Approximate Ambient Occlusion.



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  1. 1 Arite Edit Link Jan 23rd, 2008 at 9:59 pm

    I tried one of the builds out earlier and the Amproximated AO works great - excellent work!!

    Arite.

  2. 2 AntonG Edit Link Jan 23rd, 2008 at 10:30 pm

    I just did a quick test on the lipsync shot from the new ManCandy FAQ DVD — I'm really impressed with the quality and super render speed!

    Great job Brecht!

    http://www.renderplace.com/blenderfiles/ManCandy_AAO_vs_AO.png

    -AntonG

  3. 3 Mac Edit Link Jan 23rd, 2008 at 11:19 pm

    This is exactly what we need, very useful when baking is not an option.
    Thnx

  4. 4 Tx_Rx Edit Link Jan 24th, 2008 at 12:45 am

    Damn that's fast! :) Looks awesome.

    grabbing now.

  5. 5 DramaKing Edit Link Jan 24th, 2008 at 3:44 am

    So how is this better than the current method? It seems like a process of trading accuracy in favor of speed. I can see this being useful in time-critical animations.

  6. 6 Chris Edit Link Jan 24th, 2008 at 4:13 am

    PPC Binary for Approximate Ambient Occlusion now exists. http://graphicall.org/builds/index.php

  7. 7 ccherrett Edit Link Jan 24th, 2008 at 5:27 am

    DramaKing, try it.

  8. 8 sfepa Edit Link Jan 24th, 2008 at 8:20 am

    fast

  9. 9 Werner Höhrer Edit Link Jan 24th, 2008 at 6:59 pm

    Fast & smooth looking. In short: IT ROCKS :D

    Werner

  10. 10 ysvry Edit Link Jan 24th, 2008 at 8:21 pm

    nice addition, every thing that makes rendering faster is welcome.

  11. 11 ddwagnz Edit Link Jan 27th, 2008 at 10:27 pm

    arghhh goddammit! why do i have to be on holiday where i cannot update my source code!!!

    Nice Work Brecht!

    ddwagnz
    (Posting from Nelson, New Zealand :P :P)

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