Bump maps and Triplanar texture

[rusty_sena]

Hi all,

I'm new to Vray for Modo so please bear with me. I like the triplanar mapping feature of Vray. I've been using it as instructed by the user manual by creating a vray material, adding an image map, then adding the triplanar texture. I connect the image map to the triplanar in the schematic, as the instructions say. That all works fine. But how do I get a bump map to work in this setup? I've tried and I can't seem to get it to work. Does it connect to the triplanar in some way? Ideally I just have the bump map do the same thing as the diffuse map but I don't know how it's supposed to fit in there in the shader tree. Thank you in advance. Btw I'm using Modo 14 and the latest version of Vray.

Thanks!
Rusty

[vladimir.nedev]

Please download the latest stable nightly build from here : https://nightlies.chaosgroup.com/mai...y4modo/nightly
If you don't have access you have to write an e-mail to support.

In that build you have the ability to add the TriPlanar options to a Texture Locator, so you could share the Texture Locator and the TriPlanar properties between your diffuse and bump maps.
In the version you have, you need to create 2 TriPlanar textures, one for bump and one for diffuse.

For more info : https://forums.chaosgroup.com/forum/...60#post1067460

Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev

[rusty_sena]

Ok great - I'll give this a try. Thanks for the info. I expect to be asking a lot of questions but so far I'm really enjoying having 2 new GPU's and Vray. I come from a Mac so the speed is..unbelievable.

[rusty_sena]

I'm happy to report it works just fine so far. Thank you for the tip Vladimir!