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  • (open) [HOU-3013] shadow terminator with detailed displacement

    Hello!

    this is not specific to houdini vray but but an issue for as long as we can remember and thought of checking this up.

    We are doing alot of digital humans and we have often very detailed displacement maps from texturing.xyz and an issue we often ecounter is some weird shadows happening on faces when we have sharp angled lighting. The only way to get rid of this that we could find is to lower the displacement and soften the light but it never takes it all the way to being correct.
    I do understand ofcourse that its like applying roughness to the shaders but this shadow looks incorrect to me even when considering that and cosidering the low values we use. The normal pass for example looks fine and not overly disped.

    In this example below i have done a simple situation and you can see that weird harsch shadows start appearing even with very low displacement amount.



    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Lsw...ew?usp=sharing


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    http://goodbyekansasstudios.com/

  • #2
    Dear LeoYfver, hello.

    Thank you for reaching us here too and for the great synthesized information.
    Yes, there is room for research and improvement here.
    Some work is already made.

    I will log the provided files in our system, so they could be discussed at a high level.
    For now we could recommend playing around with Shadow bias values.

    You will be informed by any progress.

    Best regards,
    TS
    Tsvetomira Girginova | chaos.com
    3D Support (AEC,HOU,C4D) Team Lead | contact us

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    • #3
      Hello! wanted to check in on this to see if there is any progress. Ill tag Gosho.Genchev for visibility
      http://goodbyekansasstudios.com/

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      • #4
        This is essentially the same problem that we solved for bump mapping a while back; it is possible to fix it for displacement too - will make a note to look into it.

        Best regards,
        Vlado
        Last edited by vlado; 15-06-2022, 02:10 PM.
        I only act like I know everything, Rogers.

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        • #5
          thanks for the update!

          Regards Alexis
          http://goodbyekansasstudios.com/

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          • #6
            Is there any new on this?
            http://goodbyekansasstudios.com/

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