Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Output ambient occlusion map

muralist opened this issue on Aug 13, 2008 ยท 24 posts


bagginsbill posted Wed, 13 August 2008 at 12:08 PM

I don't think Poser generates a temp shadow map for AO. AO is done using ray-tracing, not shadow mapping.

On the other hand, directional lights, when set to depth-mapped shadows, do use a map. However, that's a depth map, not a shadow map, and you couldn't use it anyway for post-working a render, because it is from the point of view of the light's shadow camera, not the rendering camera. The perspective is totally different.

Am I correct in assuming you want a shadow map - something you can layer on the render later and multiply with the render to darken it? If so, let me know. It's pretty easy to make that.


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