{"id":2007,"date":"2015-09-17T00:22:12","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T05:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/?p=2007"},"modified":"2015-09-17T00:22:12","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T05:22:12","slug":"ambient-occlusion-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/2015\/09\/ambient-occlusion-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambient Occlusion Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the past week, I’ve had some time to work on one of my recently set Lightwave goals<\/a> – Ambient Occlusion Rendering. I’m still in the early phases, but progress has been made.<\/p>\n

Most of my time has been spent researching techniques for Ambient Occlusion. I want to find a method where quality meets practicality. I have found a few promising ones; but while doing so, I realized that I will need a render that will satisfy animations (as opposed to still shots).<\/p>\n

As such, I am creating a short animated sequence (on the order of three or four seconds) that includes an object moving as well as a camera zoom. Below is a screenshot of who I will be using as my test object:<\/p>\n

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As if there was any doubt that\u00c2\u00a0I was going to use a ninja! Actually, I originally set up\u00c2\u00a0a file with one of the characters from Taking Shape, but then I found it to be a poor choice due to the rather simplistic\/ orthogonal geometry.<\/p>\n

I am still working on the animated sequence, but I have done a few preliminary test renders for one AO technique. Below is a render with settings that I was happy with:<\/p>\n

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I haven’t put anything into After Effects for compositing. I intend on working through a few AO methods in LW before I export the renders. I believe this will be the best way for me to do a side-by-side comparison of the end results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the past week, I’ve had some time to work on one of my recently set Lightwave goals – Ambient Occlusion Rendering. I’m still in the early phases, but progress has been made. Most of my time has been spent researching techniques for Ambient Occlusion. I want to find a method where quality meets practicality. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[63,122,86,119],"class_list":["post-2007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-after-effects","tag-ambient-occlusion","tag-ninja-tales","tag-shapes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2007"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2011,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions\/2011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}