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    • thomthomT Offline
      thomthom
      last edited by

      Ok. I'm curious. What kind of shapes can you make out of a single square with an displacement map using your render engine of choice?

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      V-Ray SR1.5 Render


      Test Scene - 1x1m square


      8bit Version of the Displacement Map
(The one I used was 32bit)

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      • thomthomT Offline
        thomthom
        last edited by

        I'm thinking a larger scene with different displacements will be interesting. Alien-ish.


        Render02.png

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        • soloS Offline
          solo
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          Slow day in the office? πŸ˜†

          Lookibg cool by the way.

          http://www.solos-art.com

          If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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          • thomthomT Offline
            thomthom
            last edited by

            I wrote the UV tool during slow day at the office. πŸ˜‰
            This is me going through The Complete V-Ray Guide. Some of the examples had some extreme displacement, which gave me an idea I wanted to try out.

            Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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            • C Offline
              Click Draw
              last edited by

              Looks like something Madonna might wear in concert 🀣

              Have I mentioned how much of a laugh I get out of some of the Signatures on here!

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              • GaieusG Offline
                Gaieus
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                @click draw said:

                Looks like something Madonna might wear in concert 🀣

                The big boobie you mean?
                πŸ˜„

                Gai...

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                • thomthomT Offline
                  thomthom
                  last edited by

                  The Fallen Madonna with the big boobies?

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                  • EarthMoverE Offline
                    EarthMover
                    last edited by

                    @thomthom said:

                    I wrote the UV tool during slow day at the office. πŸ˜‰
                    This is me going through The Complete V-Ray Guide. Some of the examples had some extreme displacement, which gave me an idea I wanted to try out.

                    Looks cool Thomas. I started going through the Complete guide myself. What a book! Sometime in 2011 I'll let you know how it is when I finish it.

                    3D Artist at Clearstory 3D Imaging
                    Guide Tool at Winning With Sketchup
                    Content Creator at Skapeup

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                    • thomthomT Offline
                      thomthom
                      last edited by

                      I hadn't expected it to be that big. Somehow, the word "Guide" gave me a metnal image of a pocket-sized book. This thing is a behemoth! Hopefully this'll teach me a thing or two about V-Ray. ...but where to begin?

                      Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                      • soloS Offline
                        solo
                        last edited by

                        I seem to have a little glitch with my vray, I have recently installed vray on my new machine and everything works great but it does not render displacement, it shows it in material preview window but not in render.
                        I checked the same model on an older machine and it renders the displacement fine, is there someplace I need to check to enable displacement?

                        [edit] Figured it out, I'm having a blonde moment.

                        http://www.solos-art.com

                        If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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                        • thomthomT Offline
                          thomthom
                          last edited by

                          @solo said:

                          [edit] Figured it out, I'm having a blonde moment.

                          Care to share what you'd done in your blonde moment?

                          Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                          • soloS Offline
                            solo
                            last edited by

                            The model size on the new machine was too big so the dispacement value over the texture was reduced to a point that it was not noticable.

                            http://www.solos-art.com

                            If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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                            • FrederikF Offline
                              Frederik
                              last edited by

                              @solo said:

                              The model size on the new machine was too big so the dispacement value over the texture was reduced to a point that it was not noticable.

                              Ouch... Have to admit that it also have happened for me... 😳
                              Recently it happened when I tried using your Vray Grass displace model... πŸ‘Ώ πŸ˜†
                              Didn't realize it was like 30cm grass... πŸ˜†

                              Aaahhh well... Good to know that I'm not the only occasional "blonde" around... πŸ˜†

                              Cheers
                              Kim Frederik

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                              • soloS Offline
                                solo
                                last edited by

                                LOL, I have many blonde moments these days, must be age.

                                Thomthom, I used your displacement map from your first post and tried it with Vue:

                                http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/9549/ttdisplacement.jpg

                                I then exported the displaced mesh and opened it in SU.

                                http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/1562/displacementmesh.jpg

                                http://www.solos-art.com

                                If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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                                • thomthomT Offline
                                  thomthom
                                  last edited by

                                  The one I used isn't the one I posted here. I used an 32bit image, as 8bit images will have a non-linear gamma correction applied it.

                                  How did you create the mesh? Terrain generated from bitmap?

                                  Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                  List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                                  • soloS Offline
                                    solo
                                    last edited by

                                    Yes.

                                    http://www.solos-art.com

                                    If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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                                    • B Offline
                                      BTM
                                      last edited by

                                      I bet it would be possible to make a whole mountain scene with a displacement map πŸ’š

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                                      • soloS Offline
                                        solo
                                        last edited by

                                        Another quick test.

                                        Image made in paintshop:

                                        http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/7862/testdisp.jpg

                                        Then the displacement/terrain from image:

                                        http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/5422/testdisplacement.jpg

                                        And lastly the mesh from terraim/displacement opened in SU.

                                        http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/3478/testdisplacementmesh.jpg

                                        http://www.solos-art.com

                                        If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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                                        • thomthomT Offline
                                          thomthom
                                          last edited by

                                          More 'boobies'. Tried out Two-Sided material. Though, I had expected it to be more translucent. Need to revisit this one. Other tests on plain geometry gave the results I expected, this one didn't. Wonder if it's due to the displacement.


                                          Twosided.png

                                          Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                                          • soloS Offline
                                            solo
                                            last edited by

                                            I used your map again this time with Vray, and an American flag as a diffuse map.

                                            It UV mapped it perfectly....hmmm.

                                            http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/9247/usflagdisp.png

                                            http://www.solos-art.com

                                            If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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