How to do linear displacement?
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looks like a sampling resolution issue? i'm not that familiar with vray but is there a way to set a higher sample rate for displacement (like you can with shadow mapping)?
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thanks xrok! i tried looking around for that, and i'm sure it's there, but couldn't find it.
I gave it some more time today and answered my own question. Basically, if you have a hypsometric drawing (black-to-white according to depth), you would need to modify the Curve in Photoshop so Vray displaces it accurately.
This curve to be exact:
Maybe i've lost everyone and am just rambling on with myself, I would be happy to do a tutorial about it if anyone's interested.
Basically, it's a method to create displacement maps from Sketchup geometry. -
V-Ray for Sketchup applies a 2.2 gamma correction to 8bit texture maps - even displacement maps.
Either use a 32bit displacement image, or override the displacement map gamma with a negative gamma 0.4545. (I think it would be the inverse of the Global gamma correction from under General Switches.)See more info in this thread:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=322&t=18202&p=189538#p148769 -
@thomthom said:
V-Ray for Sketchup applies a 2.2 gamma correction to 8bit texture maps - even displacement maps.
Either use a 32bit displacement image, or override the displacement map gamma with a negative gamma 0.4545. (I think it would be the inverse of the Global gamma correction from under General Switches.)See more info in this thread:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=322&t=18202&p=189538#p148769right right! that makes sense, seems like I went for the less technical option, your method solves it perfectly.
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So what's you're doing with that displacement there?
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@thomthom said:
So what's you're doing with that displacement there?
oops sorry, I haven't checked the forums in a couple of days...
I've been working at uni on some very large topography, and even though I had the 3D model made with the sandbox tools, it was just too big to be usable.So I thought displacement might be a good option, and it definitely helped! I needed different layers of information projected onto the 3D model and just had to change the diffuse layer in the vray material.
Like so:
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How did it go - displacing such a large area in V-Ray?
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better than expected actually, it never took longer than 15 minutes to render at a pretty decent quality, so it never obstructed the workflow
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Will/can you post back the final results? It'd be interesting to see.
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well, everything was similar to what i posted just now, just different layers of information projected onto the terrain (villages, rivers, climate, woodland, etc.), nothing amazing really.
The pure displacement map generated this:
(7 minute render)
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