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What is Ambient?

before Global Illumination, ambient was a shortcut to give a little extra to the brightness of objects in the shadow areas, mimicking fill light. It applies itself uniformly over the entire surface, so if you have an ambient color to your material, or have an ambient light in your scene, you will never be able to achieve pure black in your render.


  • General rule is to stay away from ambient light
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