{"id":929,"date":"2009-04-28T22:29:51","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T04:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/?p=929"},"modified":"2010-03-22T03:33:01","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T03:33:01","slug":"monday-movie-using-ambient-occlusion-as-a-mix-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/929\/video-tutorials\/monday-movie-using-ambient-occlusion-as-a-mix-map","title":{"rendered":"Ambient Occlusion Mix Map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey All,<\/p>\n<p>Sorry for the incredible wait in getting this Monday Movie uploaded.\u00a0 YouTube was down for a while, and my original encoding crashed so I had to do it twice.<\/p>\n<p>This week we&#8217;re looking at how you can use 3d Studio Max Ambient Occlusion either on its own or as part of a mix map.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a quick and easy way to add some shadowing directly to your model, and helps make your details pop.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll cover some of the parameters of the Ambient Occlusion map (which I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve done in detail in the past).\u00a0 I&#8217;ll also demonstrate how to use ambient occlusion as a mix controller to blend two other maps (or materials) together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this Monday Movie I&#8217;ll show you how to use ambient occlusion in mental ray as a mix map to help make your details pop without adding a lot of render time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,104,6],"tags":[26,62,2569,2567,88,92],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}