Vertex Based Ambient Occlusion - Idea

Vertex based ambient occlusion

While prototyping games I want to spend most of my time working on the gameplay, so being able to produce a nice looking environment as fast as possible is very important.

This little script calculates the Ambient Occlusion for every vertex on an object and saves it in the vertex colors.

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Screengrabs:

The script is still wip but here is the first kind of working version.

And here is a test file.