Displacing VRay Proxy Meshes

[kweechy]

Is this possible at all? Not a subdivision displacement, but a level 0 displace. Is there any way to do this?

[Zdravko]

For now VRayProxy meshes can't be displaced or modified.
You can just change their position, orientation and size.

[vlado]

Is this possible at all? Not a subdivision displacement, but a level 0 displace. Is there any way to do this?

You can bake the displacement into the mesh before exporting it as a proxy.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Zach Gray]

Vlado,

I understand how proxy objects were designed to be used -- raw data for the renderer. I understand the workarounds as well.

As others have pointed out, the cache system is pretty great as well for pipeline/asset management, except for two features - displacement and subdivision. It would be nice to export the low poly count meshes for lighting from finaling.

Would it be possible to add a check box "treat as scene geometry"? Then the .vrscene could include the subdivision/displacement flags and re cache the geometry. Less efficient but useful for asset workflows. Might not be as hard as having .vrmesh files subdivided/displaced at render time. (Which would be even cooler!)

This may become a non issue if there is a decent maya implementation of Alembic coming in 12.5. The maya geo cache system is really over complicated and creates an unnecessary node thicket.



http://www.chaosgroup.com/forums/vbulletin/showthread.php?64699-Cache-Types-and-Pipeline-Design


These other threads are requesting the same thing.

http://www.chaosgroup.com/forums/vbulletin/showthread.php?47080-Proxy-shader-workflow-and-displacements&highlight=proxy+subdivision


http://www.chaosgroup.com/forums/vbu...xy+subdivision

[Neilg]

make 2 proxies, swap them out for final render?