Ghonma,

I can appreciate that I didn't know of industry standards around the term Ambient Occlusion, and that I misunderstood what you were getting at. However, I'd say then you were arguing what the AO term "means" and that we should be asking for something different by name, rather than suggesting that Poser AO should have this capability added.

Nevertheless, I'm not sure you're right about this terminology business.

This is a Kerkythea render. I chose the render option called "Ambient Occlusion". It is preset #23. It is not photon mapping, or final gather, or any of those other things. It is called Ambient Occlusion, and as you can see, it does exactly what we want it to do. And it was blindingly fast.

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