I'm doing a steampunk render with a human, a set, and the Aikobot (A3), and while my skin shader python worked fine on the human, my AO Studio python -- to add AO nodes -- just refuses to do anything on the scene. 

I'm assuming that the half-a-billion tiny parts of the Aikobot might have something to do with it, but AO won't even add nodes to the human. 

Does anyone know if there's some kind of upper limit on how many "pieces" can be in a scene before AO just gives up? 

Or is there something blaringly obvious that I'm missing. 

The AO editor worked fine on the human figure alone -- in another file. But in the Aikobot scene... 

Ah, there's the rub! 

If anyone has any ideas of how to solve this, I'm willing to listen. 

I'm not an expert on renders by any means (getting better constantly), but -- like most folk -- I try to stick to my tried-and-true methods. 

Which, in this case, aren't working. 

Your collective wisdom is appreciated in advance. 

Thanks.

 Stephen D. Sullivan

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