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I cant use ambient occlusion, the checkbox is just not there .

Render engine is Cycles

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  • $\begingroup$ It looks like it has been replaced by the Fast GI Approximation option in the Render Panel > Light Paths but I don't know how it works. Or use an Input > AO node in the object material but you'll need to create it in each object of your scene $\endgroup$
    – moonboots
    Commented Jun 2, 2023 at 19:55

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Cycles is a path tracer. Which means it calculates physically accurate shadows. Eevee uses ambient occlusion as a form of mimicking shadows, which is not physically accurate. If you want more control on shadows, you can render out shadow layer as a separate pass in cycles.

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