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So is there a way to set up smoother AO bakes? All the AO textures I've been outputting for the past year are grainy. Always assumed that was just the nature of the beast--- requiring a Gaussian blur in photoshop afterwards. Tried searching on youtube for any AO bake tip videos, but jesus christ, none teach you how to manipulate the controls. Some poo in the lou did have a nice table video, but didn't explain what you could do with it. There's also another Ivy League video called "Blender 2.8 : Ambient Occlusion Maps In 20 Seconds!!!" that desaturates an image in gimp.

So are there any configurations of nodes that would result in a better controlled AO with smoother output?