hborre posted at 12:45 PM Tue, 14 January 2025 - #4492836

The AO node is not recognized in Superfly.  There are some problems with it from what I understand.

That isn't entirely true.... It just works a bit differently than you might expect it too. Since this is the P12 forum I will give an example in P12.

Ao is technically the absence of color, and nothing more.... The Superfly AO node does indeed work for that....

Here is a very simple example of how you do it.

What this shader does is mix what you want, with zero, which is black. And that is exactly what AO is...

What is missing in Poser, is the color ramp node used in Cycles to easily control it....

But you can do it with a brightness contrast node just as easily....

AO does indeed work in Superfly in Poser, just not in a way you might first think... You can't bake it to the lighting the same way you can in other apps either.

But you can get close with a spaghetti mess of math nodes controlling the normal....

Mixing with zero is your friend with AO. The AO is done backwards here so you can see the affect better... Plug the Principled into Closure2 to do it the right way...

It will even extends from one object to the other, look at her feet....

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