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Forum Archive › Why we use ambient occlussion node here instead of incerting a value node directly to subtract color 2? › Reply To: Why we use ambient occlussion node here instead of incerting a value node directly to subtract color 2?
A value node returns a flat value for every part of the model, so we wouldn’t be able to isolate the effect to the crevices and it would just appear equally across all surfaces. When in doubt, try it and see what happens!
