Hey I have a desert scene (see picture below) that i am trying to add ambient occlusion to but there are certain parts I want to exclude from the ambient occlusion (due to looking horrible with AO, and they have lower value textures because the main focus isnt the areas I want excluded)
Is there any way to use AO without lighting up the whole scene? i want the scene to be mildly dark, but every time I turn AO on, it bursts light into the scene, just completely shattering the images “believability”
The circled areas are the problem areas, I want them to not include AO
also the arrow is pointing to an area that I want to have shadow, but for some odd reason, it wont darken correctly?
any ideas for that?
The exclamation point shows with AO the lighting in the barrel stops being a problem
