"According to the email I just got from CL, P6 will have ambient occlusion." Ah, that's good to hear! Would still be nice for the time being if there were a python script to help automate the process in P5. I'm speculating that P6 will be geared toward a much more useful post-processing output capability. Features like "shadowcatcher" and "ambient occlusion" seem to indicate we'll be seeing a much richer feature set for compositing and video post.

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Tools :  3dsmax 2015, Daz Studio 4.6, PoserPro 2012, Blender v2.74

System: Pentium QuadCore i7, under Win 8, GeForce GTX 780 / 2GB GPU.