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Most of us know Eevee's Ambient Occlusion
My issue is I have models such has hair with its own custom normals and the AO in Eevee is causing it to look weird.
Is there a way to remove the AO effect from specific objects? I thought it could be done using the AO node but im unsure.
Real time renders don't use real Ambient Occlusion, they uses SSAO - Screen Space Ambient Occlusion which is a depth based effect applied to the whole view.
As far as I know it can't be filtered or masked.
As a workaround render separate layers and combine them in post production.
Any material with SS Refraction turned on will not render screen space AO under Eevee, but materials doesn't have it enabled will still able to generate AO on to it. Note that this doesn't work on Cycles, as they treat materials differently.
