When I convert my character's materials from Traditional to PBR shader models I end up with diffuse, opacity, normal, roughness, and metallic texture maps - HOWEVER the box for Ambient Occlusion (AO) remains blank. Is there a way to automatically generate AO texture maps?

I can see there's a way to enable AO in the "Visual" window of CC, but that doesn't seem to affect the character's texture maps.

I can't seem to find any useful info on this.

Any help?

If you load the appearance editor using the PBR skin, then you can adjust it in the "Tweak" section. You can then click on the material tab to see the difference it makes to the texture thumbnail.

Thanks for the quick response, Rampa! You're a saint.
I activated the appearance editor for the relevant materials as you suggested and located the Ambient Occlusion slider, but even setting the slider to maximum didn't cause CC to generate an AO map.

However, I noticed a couple of odd things:
1. I don't seem to have a "Tweak" menu; my menu structure looks different to yours for some reason.


2. When I switched back to the Materials tab it had forced the shader model from PBR back to Traditional. (I forced it back to PBR in the pic below). Still no AO map!


What am I missing?

It's a little bit hidden, but we loaded different Substances for the Appearance Editor. Have a look at this for where to set the Substance:


Click on the little flame icon in the box, and a pop-up will then let you choose the Substance. Pick the one with PBR in the name. That should do it!

That did the trick! Thanks so much!
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