I don’t know what I could be doing wrong. Ignoring how to setup a pass which I’ve got done, I’ve plugged in the AO Shader into the diffuse of an Illumination node then into the surface port. [i]
What is the problem you ask[/i] 
The problem is I’m getting something that represents an alpha channel, not an AO pass.
Turn the alpha slider on the AO black to the top. It’s at 0 by default.
It may be white, I can’t remember.
You mean the bright color and dark color. I’ve changed both from white to black or black to white and I don’t see my AO pass. Also trying to figure out creating an AO channel, basically a two in one question, using the store in channel no luck there either.
I’m sorry. I’ve adjusted numerous settings, and nothing it working can you tell me what you mean or show me ?
On the RGBA silder for bight and dark colors…
Make sure the “A” is set to 1, not Zero.
Zero means the alpha is on. That’s not what you want.
yes it does work.
its really simple to do ao pass.
get xsiambientocclusion, change Dark color alpha to 1,0, plug it to surface port of material, done.
Is your screen coming out entirely black? If so, turn the “maximum distance” to anything other than zero – or give me scene to look at it.
Gonna ask the obvious, is AO turned on under render options?
Just create a empty pass, assign a partition to the selected obj and assign a AO material to that partition.
It really is super easy to do a AO pass, dunno what step you are missing.
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