Ambient Pass? You gotta be Joking right?

Anyway, in Maya 2010, 2011 and 2012, all you have to do is right click your layer and go to your attributes /presets and select occlusion. It gives you...

Thanks ND! I only have Maya 6.5. so unless they have redesigned the layers palette completely for maya 2011 and 2012, most all of the info should still work.

About the Occlusion part, I see where...

Here is a link to all kinds of info (and some you might not know about ) concerning render layers . Should help alot of you folks just getting into maya that find working and rendering with layers...