bagginsbill opened this issue on Oct 25, 2007 ยท 273 posts
bagginsbill posted Wed, 19 August 2009 at 7:48 AM
These are nitpicky issues with AO. It really doesn't matter. For realism, AO is wrong. If you're interested in realism, AO is too much cheating.
The shadows produced by P8 IDL are much more accurate. AO shadows are the wrong shape, mistakenly do not produce shadows from objects far away, and do not calculate a colored shadow based on what is not occluded. IDL (if it works right) is 10 times better than AO.
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)