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ENSONIQ5:
$imon:  First of all, great renders there, really lovely.  Is there a particular reason why you render the AO pass separately and composite it with the beauty render, rather than setting the AmbientOcclusion attribute in scene mode and rending normally?  I haven't done any comparisons, I just wondered if the multi-render/composition technique yielded a better quality image than single pass with AO.

floyd86:
I render my passes separately too and this has numbers of reasons.
First the render time, rendering the passes separately will most of the time cost less time, since you can run the two render the same time (only advised on mutli-core processors though). And since it costs less time you have to wait that long to see how something turned out.
Second and most inportant, you have a lot more controll on the different passes. When doing only one render, your dependent on how this one turns out (maybe some tweaking in photoshop, but that's it). When having different passes, you can alter the strenght of each pass.

ENSONIQ5:
Ok, that makes sense, thanks mate!

$imon:
What floyd said there haha!

Also, there are quite some materials in anim8or that dont work with AO, so turning the AO on and rendering that way may result in only Very faint AO or none at all (see an image i posted here http://www.anim8or.com/smf/index.php?topic=2135.0 )
By rendering them seperately, i can adjust the strength of the AO in photoshop and make it more evident than was ever possible (as far as i know) straight out of an anim8or render.

onespirit5777:
They look like they sound better than Bose and the Sony MDR-7560 I use in my home studio.

Sweet stuff!!

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