stonemason opened this issue on May 12, 2008 ยท 62 posts
ghonma posted Tue, 13 May 2008 at 6:44 PM
Hmm i took a closer look at the settings file for that 23. Ambient Occlusion option. And guess what, it is indeed using Final Gathering. Can be found at:
Kerkythea Rendering SystemRenderSettings23. Ambient Occlusion.xml
Look at line 25, 50-54 etc where it's setting FG rays to 800 and 900 and so on. It also disables it for part of the raytrace (line 37) which is why i guess it's so fast.
My guess is that kerky only has FG and no real AO. But it does it so efficiently that it doesn't even need AO at all. Very cool stuff IMO and i'm liking this renderer more and more.