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Missing Ambient Occlusion, Bloom, 4.2 TLS-Part 2

Missing Ambient Occlusion, Bloom, 4.2 TLS

In Blender 4.2 LTS, Blender has updated the for a new and improved Eevee rendering! Yay! These new settings are slightly different from the previously recorded video however.

Follow these two simple steps for the new methods of doing ambient occlusion and bloom within Eevee ⬇️

Step 1: New Ambient Occlusion

In the Render Properties (camera icon)
Turn on “Raytraciing”
Disable “Denoising” under the “Raytracing” tab.
Although this is not technically “ambient occlusion”, it is the new method to get contact shadows with in Eevee and looks much better!

Step 2: Fixing the “grainy” look.

In the Render Properties (camera icon)
Set the “Samples” up to 512
- Note, this may be very slow for slower computers, its best to only bump this setting up when you need it, then lower it when you don’t.