CGTalk - Occlusion question

Kiriana

04-10-2006, 02:06 PM

I have been told to use occlusion in Maya 7 to create the "second" shadow for the piano and bench so that they don't look like they're floating on the floor. If anyone has a link to a tutorial or a quick solution, please tell me.

animatorAtLarge

04-11-2006, 05:33 AM

ummm I'm not 100% percent sure because I haven't used Maya in a while, but in the layers you can turn the render layers on and change one of them to occlusion or ambient occlusion. then you have to render it out and place the occlusion pass on top of the diffuse colour in photoshop and turn the layer to multiply and that's it.

if you need more help with the render layers there is good information in the help section, search for render layers or occlusion until you find something relevent. I know it's there cause that's how I figured it out.

cheers

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