mental ray Architectural and Design Visualization Shader Library

2.3 Features 13Used alone, an AO shader 5 creates a gray scale output that is “dark” in areas to which lightcannot reach and “bright” in areas where it can:An example of AO applied to a sceneAs seen in the above image, one of the main results of AO is dark in crevices and areas wherelight is blocked by other surfaces and it is bright in areas that are exposed to the environment.One important aspect of AO is that one can tune the “distance” within which it looks foroccluding geometry.5 Like the separate mental ray mib amb occlusion shader.