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OMG Amazing

Same goes for properly combining 2 normal maps. Maybe you can make video on that, too.

Make it addon bro 😩

OMG, I was about to waste a bunch of time doing this, then realized that my game engine will just do it for me and I can skip the whole shootin' match. yay for minor victories Also, made me consider cranking up the AO settings in my engine, because researching AO made me kind of a fan.

hammer is superior than blender for simple envs and block manipulation

ambient occlusion is grey instead of pure white, why? default settings.

"You might as well just merge the AO map into the Albedo in Photoshop". I always wondered why we couldn't just don't do this instead! Thanks for clearing this out.

wow this is really a great tutorial, thank you so much!

The righteous fury of knowing that other people on the internet are wrong came through beautifully here.

think you need to talk abit slower buddy, i thought i talked fast but having to slow down a video to understand is not good lol

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this is fantastic...now how would you use it in Redshift... 🤣🤣🤣

Followed every instruction and it made the design less realistic

why did you not change the ao map from srgb to non color?

Great info. Thanks.

basiclly use 1-NdotL to multiply the AO map right?

0:57 LOL

I am trying to make a moss texture and wanted the moss not to feel flat and i am using a pretty old computer so eevee seem the best option specially since i want to preview my material without the need to render it make adjusting the material also alot easier without having to denoise. So i just want to say thank you i will be try this soon. Hopefully i wont have to many material that need such treatment.

How'd you get the little image previews above your nodes? :0

The texture blending is nice and all (actually amazing), but those add-ons are really gonna help me out

_This is a joke._ _These guys are cool . . ._ for a short time after you pull them out of a freezer. Again and ag . . . Nah, srsly, they cool. P.S. The slaps you thown . . . I . . . felt them like it was me who shouted again and again how to incorectly use the Ambeyond Conclusion.

Nice video, but please slow it down. I can barely see what you're doing without slowing the video down or going back a bunch of times

Tried it for cycles. I added layer "solidrender" and cant find it in "override". I don't understand what i did wrong

Great trick. I understand the steps, but why does it work? It's basically killing the AO map under direct light - how does a diffuse shader to rgb in the mix do that? What? Great video, but this is one of my complaints about a LOT of online tutorials: they go through the right steps, but don't always explain the what's and whys. So I don't learn them, just what options to click.

very nice

I wanna go home

Great video, thank you

Awesome tutorial. I can already think of some cases where this would be useful for my blender stuff.

Clarence?

There is no "solid render layer", you lying.

I always knew this so I resorted to never use thinking that AO might be a technique for old times when Raytracing wasn't as efficient and PC's weren't strong so they faked GI using AO. Hence why also used in games. So basically AO is indeed in genuine use, just that it is being wrongly used by everyone.

Can you make a vid on portal light property in area light

I am learning how to create cs2 skins and that glow in the dark effect seems really interesting to apply in the game. Would you make a detailed tutorial about how can you achieve this effect and how to bake the occlusion sheet?

Make more tutorials. You have a unique appeal that will get you far.

Looks close but not exactly how the source engine does it. What they do is take the blend modulate value from the texture, then add and subtract a "sharpness" value from it (for example 0.5), which gives a min and max value. They then clamp these from 0 to 1. Next they feed the input alpha from the vertices to a smoothstep function (map range in blender) with the edges being the min and max value from above. This is used as the lerp between the 2 color textures.

This is an awesome tutorial! Very helpful! Although, I can get displacement to show up in the viewport for Eevee, I can't get it to show up in the final render. Would you have any advice as to why?

i dont understand the need of the empty, just subdivide the plane, then disp mod with texture, done

99% of blender youtubers are just affiliate marketers. They don't know anything beyond the surface level.

!!!!!!

"I'm here to settle the score on how to use ambient occlusion in Blender CORRECTLY. None are without sin." Yuck, why do male artist always talk like they have a stick up their ass and pretentious af? No wonder people are flocking to AI art. They probably don't want to deal with btchy, try-hard, tw*ts like you lol. So fcking annoying.

I'm so confused. Ima go back and make a second cube.

my hero

Thank you for sharing this. It really help me while working on my commercial projects

1:21 “You might as well just merge the AO map into the albedo map to save yourself the extra draw call.” I thought a draw call was just an instance of a mesh or an instance of a material applied to one? I don’t have that much experience in draw calls, so any of us could be wrong, but I’m open to learning more.

FULLY CORRECT SEEN BELOW! ~ Writing in caps here because I'm trying to solve this issue, and this YT video gave me what I needed to solve it (Shader -> RGB), but the solution given wasn't working in all cases for me. Here is the correct math that works across many PBRs that I tested: Starting Configuration: Textures => Principled BSDF -> Shader Output Here's what you will do (Probably putting this all in a Shader Group), - Take the Ambient Occlusion, and multiply it with albedo (Call this node NODE_Z). Then, take the Metal texture, invert it, and multiply with NODE_Z to get NODE_Y. - Then, add Principled BSDF -> Shader to RGB; VectorAdd this result with NODE_Y, and connect the output of this VectorAdd to your Shader Output. This now _adds_ ambient lighting (The YT tutorial doesn't actually brighten up the texture, it only darkens, which is incorrect); and, it works correctly on textures with metal in them (This YT tutorial breaks on any texture with metallicity). You can also multiply Ambient Occlusion with any number (1, 2, 3, 4) to match the "Ambient Light" setting in your game engine (UE, Unity, Godot), and the result should match 1:1 with the game engine. This adjusts the intensity of the ambient light. You even multiply by a color to give the ambient light a tint. Overall, the formula is this: ambient_light = ambient_intensity * ambient_tint * ambient_occlusion; // intensity is a float, the other two are vector3's ambient_light *= albedo; ambient_light *= 1 - metallic; BSDF_RGB += ambient_light; // If you have a PBR without an AO map, set ambient_occlusion = vector3(1,1,1), so that lighting is still equal across all PBRs in the scene. Hope this helps!

Alexa: How do I permanently engrave this information on my brain?

wow more of these vids please!! EVERYDAY LESSONS lol lol I tried this and it didn't work, missing something basic I think. Also, love how you explain what an AO is, i mean.. i knew that... or did i??? how does sheen and specular work??? as a fabric artist I need to know these things =D ytytyt for the videos

this only works for eevee?

I tried to conduct experiments and I got the impression that this does not always work. The Ambient Occlusion node works more stable than Diffusion + Shader to RGB. 🤔

are you 1.5xing your voice? it feels way to fast...