Ambient Occlusion in SVN

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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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    • Arite

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

      Arite.

    • http://www.renderplace.com AntonG

      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

    • Mac

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

    • Tx_Rx

      Damn that’s fast! :) Looks awesome.

      grabbing now.

    • DramaKing

      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.

    • http://www.welcometochrisworld.com Chris

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

    • ccherrett

      DramaKing, try it.

    • sfepa

      fast

    • Werner Höhrer

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

      Werner

    • http://home.deds.nl/~mp/ ysvry

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

    • http://www.dave3d.mad-host.net/index.php ddwagnz

      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)