Latest on SP3?

[trick]

Best and probably daily used sp3 feature: Multimatte now supports transparency maps

[^Lele^]

Any chance of showing us one of the displacement maps?

Not really.
But the idea is RGB -> XYZ

so, a blue 255 would displace UP.

Proxy meshing is exactly as you described it: one click and it's an editable mesh in max.

[skogskalle]

Lele - sounds really cool! Have you tried creating grass with it? Using a RGB-noise image and having the strands point in slightly different directions would look alot better than the usual all-strands-point-straight-up kinda grass I get with the normal displacement...

Cant wait for this update, and I honestly cant believe its free... If they give us all these new toys for free, then I would love to see what they are planning for release 2.0

/k

[RErender]

Not really.
But the idea is RGB -> XYZ

so, a blue 255 would displace UP.

Proxy meshing is exactly as you described it: one click and it's an editable mesh in max.

Heh, I know how it works, wanted a nice disp map for water

anyone one know of an easy way to generate the maps from geometry? Is there a mr shader for that? Vlado, any plans to make a vray one?

[vlado]

It's probably best for a modelling application to generate such maps, similar to regular displacement maps. It can be done with a script also.

Best regards,
Vlado

[^Lele^]

Heh, I know how it works, wanted a nice disp map for water

I knew you knew how it worked, i just cannot show it
Jokes apart, we do not have a preview for the flood map, we see it directly in viewport, and the map slot returns just an arbitrary color.

[nirsul]

Arch and Design support - this means - no more hours of translating my MR to VRAY !(?) YEA !!!!

Nir

[Morbid Angel]

The movie is out ("W" of Oliver Stone), so I can probably talk about this.
Vlado developed the Vector Displacement so that we (Frantic) could use VRay to displace flood seas.
It's not only working fine, it's also SUPER quick, to the point of being mind-bogging.
I could render full 2k frames of glossy reflective, volume transparent, displaced water at 6 minutes a frame on a quadcore.
80 kms worth of it.
It's now a stable frantic feature, and more shows are making use of it, with motionblur and whatnot.
People previously used to RenderMan (gelato) displacement speeds are being very impressed by how efficient and quick VRay, a "mere raytracer" is.
I cannot release internal benchmarks done by the Flood Developer, but i can surely say he thinks this is WELL worth the development effort.
As per usual, Kudos to Vlado.

what would be a typical way to generate a vector map for such displacement?

[Paul Oblomov]

I'm trying to generate vector displace with modo But it seems modo is too complicated for me...

Like here - http://www.etereaestudios.com/traini...ief_maps_2.htm

[Paul Oblomov]

And this what I get (.exr):

http://uploaded.to/?id=awc58o

http://uploaded.to/?id=e4eug0

Seems wrong

[stilgarna]

The movie is out ("W" of Oliver Stone), so I can probably talk about this.
Vlado developed the Vector Displacement so that we (Frantic) could use VRay to displace flood seas.
It's not only working fine, it's also SUPER quick, to the point of being mind-bogging.
I could render full 2k frames of glossy reflective, volume transparent, displaced water at 6 minutes a frame on a quadcore.
80 kms worth of it.
It's now a stable frantic feature, and more shows are making use of it, with motionblur and whatnot.
People previously used to RenderMan (gelato) displacement speeds are being very impressed by how efficient and quick VRay, a "mere raytracer" is.
I cannot release internal benchmarks done by the Flood Developer, but i can surely say he thinks this is WELL worth the development effort.
As per usual, Kudos to Vlado.

Any chance to see the vector Displacement in SP3 ???

Best regards...

[zeronove]

In my understanding Vector Displacement IS included in SP3!

[stilgarna]

In my understanding Vector Displacement IS included in SP3!

It's not very clear in my mind

[^Lele^]

it sure is.

[dcullipher]

This may be a lame question but it would seem that normal maps from Zbrush and the like can be used as vector displace maps. Is this correct?