Ambient occlusion node doesn't apply to beveled edges #88292
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System Information
Operating system: Windows-10-10.0.19041-SP0 64 Bits
Graphics card: GeForce RTX 3060/PCIe/SSE2 NVIDIA Corporation 4.5.0 NVIDIA 462.31
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Broken: version: 3.0.0 Alpha, branch: master, commit date: 2021-05-03 23:07, hash:
e6bf272abdWorked: don't know
Short description of error
Ambient occlusion node doesn't apply to beveled edges. As you can see on the picture below, the bevel is just white and the surrounding dark. I've tested in cycles and eevee - both the same issue.
edit: I've tested a bit with the math node and i got a good result yet now i can't get rid of those thin lines around the bevel on the out edges
Exact steps for others to reproduce the error
Use the bevel modifier (or create a bevel on an object/mesh via edit mode) and use the ambient occlusion node + color ramp to create a mask for inner edges. The AO node doesn't work on the bevel.
Added subscriber: @Harti
#90134 was marked as duplicate of this issue
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Added subscriber: @lichtwerk
Changed status from 'Needs Triage' to: 'Needs User Info'
Dont think this is actually a bug?
It just happens that those particular faces are really not that much occluded.
Not 100%sure if the whole hemisphere is traced for AO (should be the case), but the bevelled faces normal points to a lot of "free space" (and looking from the normal only a tiny fraction of its hemisphere actually has occluding faces in there.
If you start putting geometry there, you will see occlusion:
#88292.blend
Does this not work for you?
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Changed status from 'Needs User Info' to: 'Archived'
No activity for more than a week. As per the tracker policy we assume the issue is gone and can be closed.
Thanks again for the report. If the problem persists please open a new report with the required information.
Changed status from 'Archived' to: 'Needs User Info'
Eh, this was just one day without response...
My bad, sorry. I've read "Juni"
I apologise
Changed status from 'Needs User Info' to: 'Archived'
No activity for more than a week. As per the tracker policy we assume the issue is gone and can be closed.
Thanks again for the report. If the problem persists please open a new report with the required information.
Sorry for the delay! I've tried the blend file and it clearly shows the problem. The beveled areas should be dark too but instead they are bright. This makes it close to impossible to use the ao node for a crease or edge mask (for edge wear or dirty creases).
I know there is still the pointiness option in the geometry node but that usually doesn't work that great too.
Like those faces on the bottom cylinder are bright and the side facing faces of the other cylinders are black. Weird.
Changed status from 'Archived' to: 'Needs Developer To Reproduce'
Added subscriber: @brecht
The thing is, these two situations are not the same (note the direction of the surface normal):
this is your case as seen from a bevelled area (appear brighter):
this is your case as seen from a the surrounding area (appear darker):
Now one might think: from both surfaces, half of the hemisphere blocks, the other half is unblocked, so why are these not the same value in AO?
I believe this is due to the fact that the sampling is weighted (see
sample_cos_hemispherevssample_uniform_hemisphere), so samples around the surface normal have a much higher chance of contributing to (diffuse) shading than samples at lower gazing angles:So in the case of the bevelled areas, a lot more "green stuff" is around the surface normal as opposed to the darker surrounding areas (where a lot of light blocking is in the high area of intrest (sampling wise).
I think this makes sense from the light transport (the contribution of light coming in from the direction of the surface normal is just higher than the contribution from light at lower gazing angles).
Now for Ambient Occlusion I am not 100% sure (it might come down to what you define this to and also where and how it is used in production).
I believe there are renderers out there where you can pick whethter you'd want uniform or cosine weighted distribution (maybe for exactly these reasons).
Still dont think this is a bug, but would like get input from module devs:
@brecht: am I right on this? (would it possibly make sense to make uniform sampling optional for AO? would this be noisier then?)
Changed status from 'Needs Developer To Reproduce' to: 'Archived'
The analysis by @lichtwerk is correct. More control over the weighting would be a good feature to add, but that's outside the scope of the bug tracker.