Rendering a normal map from Vray Displacement ?

[samuel_bubat]

Is there any way to bake a normal map from Vray Displacement with the projection modifier ?
I think I tried every combination without success, but maybe I overlooked something.

[muoto]

VRaySamplerInfo as render element and then normal vector ?

[joconnell]

Or samplerinfotex in normal mode into a light material and render to texture?

[samuel_bubat]

No, doesn´t seem to work I just get a the plain normals as if no displacement was rendered. When I use a vraycompletemap I sometimes
get out something that could be a displacement So it´s not completely ignoring displacement,
But not exactly what it would look like when you just render the object. I also get maxscript errors from time to time.
Looks like it´s not really supported.
My setup is quite basic. Maybe there is something wrong as I don´t use Texture baking that often.
2 Spheres, one is larger than the other and has a projection mod apllied The modifier targets the smaller sphere.
The smaller one has a displacement modifier with a cellular map applied. displacement is set to 2d and the cellular map
to explicit map channel. Tried VrayNormals as element, vraycompletemap with vraysamplertex and infotexture.
No luck so far.

[piotrus3333]

is the displacement 3d? had some problems recently with cellular and 2d.

edit: missed that in your post. try 3d displacement.

[samuel_bubat]

Thanks for your suggestions. After rethinking what I actually need, I came to the conclusion that I don´t really need this to work. I can just
put the displacement map into my diffuse slot, texture bake it and convert it to a normal map with crayz bump. Should give exactly the result
I was asking for, in theory.