displacement-test

[Gijs]

BTW: rendertime was including lightmap and irradiance (medium-setting) calculation on dual Xeon 2.8

[cpnichols]

three quick things...

1 - wow... super cool...
2 - displacement settings?
3 - ram use?

[daze]

NIce shit...

Do you mind to share the map?

[timmatron]

Wow indeed! I'd like to see the map as well just to see how you did that.

[Syclone1]

nice one Gijs

-dave

[natty]

Yeah very cool ...

[Da_elf]

really nice. would be good to use something like that on a chair

[BBullo]

WOW! I've really strugled with controlling displacement.

I would love to see the image you used to create that. And maybe an explanation of how you went about making a material to create that effect. Did you start with a photo and then tweak it using disp settings?
Or Z-Brush/PS?
Can you talk about your workflow?

[Trapezium]

Wow amazing. You really though that map out

--Jon

[percydaman]

great job! with the new normal and height mapping capabilities in max 7, I think we're in for some real nice displacement tests.

[Gijs]

I am not going to post the map yet, because I want to work it out in my current project first(indeed on a chair Daelf, that's what I made it for )

But I will tell the workflow, which is in fact quite simple:

I modeled the a few strings just like it is done with reed chairs. In top view I made a zbuffer image. Then just cut it to a tileable format.
Put it in the displacement slot, add a displacement mod to the object and check use material (3d displacement). In this case the height was 4, edge length was set to 2.

As for the material: simple gray vray material, white reflection, 0.7 glossiness, unchecked trace reflections.

As for ram usage: while rendering ram usage increased to about 700MB

[s0real]

very impressive...
would love to see the chair model with this on when it's done.

[thablanch]

really impressive