Can no longer bake AO at max distance above 1

[Eric34738502cr18]

Hello there,
My team works on building assets for a AAA project, and part of our pipeline involves baking AO at a max occluder distance of 200 for consistent AO results across buildings.
As of Substance 11.1, we can no longer set the Max Occluder distance beyond 1. This is disrupting our workflow and requiring us to roll-back to a prior version.

[Cyril Dellenbach]

Hi Eric,

Thank you for your report!

After discussion with the team, it seems to be a UI issue that showed up when we've updated the baker feature in 11.1.

It should be fixed in a coming minor update.

[BradHB3D]

Could there be a serious mesh map bake: ambient occlusion regression? I'm unable to bake world scale AO distances in the latest build (11.1.1). I've disabled relative to bounding box, but the UI is not accepting Max Distance values above 1. This is breaking and blocking world scale bake workflow compatability. Any known issues or workarounds?

 

[BradHB3D]

I see its already reported and triaged. Linking to related post:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/substance-3d-painter-bugs/can-no-longer-bake-ao-at-max-distance-above... 

[BradHB3D]

Actually, there may be an issue with similarly behaving bakers like curvature. The sampling radius also appears to have slider limit

[Cyril Dellenbach]

Considering we indeed already have an open thread on the subject, I've merged yours to this one.

[Cyril Dellenbach]

To keep you posted, we unfortunately didn't have the developpement time to fix this issue with 11.1.1. Hopefully, an other minor update is coming (11.1.2) and the problem should be solved.

[Cyril Dellenbach]

We're currently working on this issue, but the results aren't the one we're expecting. Do you have by any chance a .SPP file that we could use to try some fixes? If so, you can send it at cdellenbach@adobe.com

If you also have screenshots of the desired results, that would be great.

Let me know.