Removing from AO?

[MADCello]

Sorry if it's been asked before.
AO works with raytrace but if i put "Traceable" Off in material shaders, the material gets AO the same.

Is there a way to remove materials from AO?

Thank you very much!

[hafunui]

Try to turn down the AMB setting in the shader tab. Its usually at 0.500 but turn it to 0 and AO wont affect it. But i think it still casts AO shadows on other stuff.

[MADCello]

Thank you for your answer, but i was looking for a way of removing meshes from the calculation.

[Fweeb]

When the rendering in passes feature is finished for the next version of Blender, you should be able to do that. In the meantime, put those objects on a different layer and render them separately without AO... then composite them in post.

[MADCello]

Thank you!:)