bagginsbill opened this issue on Apr 23, 2008 ยท 2832 posts
bagginsbill posted Thu, 21 May 2009 at 10:29 AM
Not really. Imagine a sphere with your soft specular effect on it. As you look at the top of the sphere, you see the sky behind it, but blurred. Now imagine placing a wall between the sphere and sky, several feet away. AO will not detect this wall, but the wall should block the specular reflection (soft or not) of the sky behind the wall.
Renderosity forum reply notifications are wonky. If I read a follow-up in a thread, but I don't myself reply, then notifications no longer happen AT ALL on that thread. So if I seem to be ignoring a question, that's why. (Updated September 23, 2019)