In this render I turned the AO on to 100% so we can clearly see what it is doing. Of course you wouldn't want it on this strong.

I think the AO is crap. Look at all the splotches. And why is there so much shadow on her shoulders. In terms of percentage of occlusion of the hemisphere that lights those areas, it seems totally wrong.

Face_off, I know you said to put AO on individual materials. Can you point to some examples?

BTW: Face_off, I did what you said about the mirror ball. I made it teeny tiny and set the camera focal length to around 15000 mm. Works great! I didn't think poser would do the math for such a tiny object and such extreme focal length correctly but it did. So this lets the camera stay close to the mirror ball.

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