Ah, if it’s Cycles, you should get AO for free as it’s a different rendering engine than a real-time engine like EEVEE. Then I would suspect it’s the lighting that’s throwing everything off.
Huh, that’s in interesting plugin. I’ll look deeper into it. But there should be some default HDRIs in Blender and you can download free, CC0 ones from https://hdrihaven.com/ if the default ones aren’t to your liking.
