Cheers Snarlygribbly

I'll experiment a bit more with some carefully placed AO nodes set to Evaluate in IDL then I think...

Due to the complexity of most of my scenes, exponentially adding to the render time, by setting IC to 100 and losing the IDL prepass, just isn't really feasible, for the most part.... aside from smaller experiments like my girl in chair with cat render.

So I think using more "artistic workarounds", such as careful placement of AO nodes, or indeed a Poser light or two, in addition to IDL, is probably where I have to continue to aim, for the time being...