AO issues

Skoomoo · December 12, 2020, 1:38am

I’m trying to finish up this scene here but I’m having trouble with the AO as you can see here I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong

or am I just losing it? shouldn’t the rocks have shadows? around the bottoms?

lehuan5062 · December 12, 2020, 1:56am

I don’t know how the AO looks but I usually use Fac = 1.

Skoomoo · December 12, 2020, 2:16am

yeah I did that and I still get nothing

lehuan5062 · December 12, 2020, 2:21am

I still need to see how the AO look. Please use an emission shader to show the AO on the objects.

Skoomoo · December 12, 2020, 2:38am

something like this? this is how the AO looks

lehuan5062 · December 12, 2020, 3:07am

Then you’re good, because there is no black value around the bottom of the rock.

Skoomoo · December 12, 2020, 3:12am

how would I go about added dark values on the bottom of the rocks?

lehuan5062 · December 12, 2020, 3:33am

You can use the AO settings of the renderer and the Ambient Occlusion node of the shader editor. Texture painting is another option.