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  • Ambient Occlusion Compositing Problem

    Posted by Hamish Paterson on January 31, 2017 at 2:57 pm

    Hey there,

    So my AO pass is showing up fine in my beauty pass, but when I attempt to composite, it’s not blending correctly at all. I’ve attached pics of my stack. Any advice on where I’ve gone wrong? I can provide more info if useful!

    The beauty pass is the top half of the image:

    My AE stack:

    My C4D Ambient Occlusion settings:

    Adam Trachtenberg replied 9 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Adam Trachtenberg

    January 31, 2017 at 5:23 pm

    I don’t know if it will fix your problem, but when you use Cinema’s AE export plugin the passes come in as follows:

    AO: Multiply
    GI: Add
    Shadow: Multiply
    Specular: Add
    Diffuse: Normal

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