Re: Bake Ambient Occlusion with IvyGrower

Don't have time to test but Baking has a bunch of settings which will change things and I'm most familiar with baking when it moved from the Render Menu, either the Bake Texture tag or Bake Object in the Object menu (12 and 13?). Either way regardless of other settings baking will produce (at least with the ivy leaf objects) one of two kinds of images. If you include all the layers available with one method you get what looks like one leaf which since that is how the leaves are being done (single image provides the colour for all the leaves) looks fine but the AO (or diffusion channel) is having to be used for all the leaves so it can't be right to use the same AO for everything. The other method gives you an UVW mapped image that has many leaves on it, the individual leaves in the image are UVW mapped to an individual leaf in the leaf object and potentially could have the correct AO across one leaf but for this one image to have the correct detail for so many leaves means it has to be *huge*. It takes a lot longer to make an image that size and it might be quicker to just render with AO, so that's why I thought it might be better to just use AO in the diffusion channel of the leaf objects and tweak the settings of the AO for speed.