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Fishypants · 20-04-2009, 02:44 PM

Cool tutorial, but why do you suggest to set the environment to white? The ambient occlusion node calculates its color independent of the environment color, unless you're using final gather occlusion . . . Seems like an unnecessary step is all.

20-04-2009, 02:44 PM	#33 (permalink)
Fishypants New Member 3 - 0	Cool tutorial, but why do you suggest to set the environment to white? The ambient occlusion node calculates its color independent of the environment color, unless you're using final gather occlusion . . . Seems like an unnecessary step is all.