Hi all I have a large stone wall with displacement on. (the standard limestone map that use to come with max) I made a displacement map from it. On my wall I added a “quadrify” modifier to subdivide it into quads since the origianl wall have only 1 X 1 section Displacement settings: everything d…

have you adjusted your dynamic memory? *****forget that***** I read your post again

what about using a normal map instead of displacment? Would that work? How would I make a normal map for vray for the stone? Never used normal maps so not sure what is the capabilities or even where to start and what to do.

If you’re intent on using displacement: 1. Optimize your map resolution down to the smallest it can get and still preserve details. This I’ve found to be the easiest way to speed up rendering with displacement 2. Use 2d displacement and nothing else.

I use the program “CrazyBump” to create (and view) normal maps in real time. It used to be free, my beta version still is. http://www.crazybump.com/

here is a hint… displace the geometry with the max modifier and collapse it to a dense mesh put optimize modifier on top (non rendetrable) so you can move around your scene nicely

thanks Colin and Martin, I’ll give both your options a try. In the meantime some feedback: With my original settings, some frames eventually finished (remember prepass on my pc 10min and on others 30min per frame). So my pc rendered couple of frames at 3 hours each! The other pc took 6 hours each!!…

[image] licens not valid any longer...? Somewhere I read that NVidia has some kind of photoshop plugin, any1 knows anything about it? ‘Nvidia photoshop plugin’ pulls up this Texture Tools Exporter | NVIDIA Developer And yeah, i use it all the time.

Displacement - major EXTREME rendertimes

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‘Nvidia photoshop plugin’ pulls up this Texture Tools Exporter | NVIDIA Developer

And yeah, i use it all the time.

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