Dreamscape foam - Displacement in Vray ?

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I am working on a stormy looking ocean. Dreamscape is giving be pretty good results but I am looking for a way to give the foam a bit more ballz. I was thinking that it could really benefit from some Vray displacement. If you’re familiar with dreamscape you’ll know that the foam is created as a combination effect through the Dremscape sea surface object and a Dreamscape sea surface material that has a dreamscape foam map. If there was a way to pump this map into a vray material displacement or displacement modifier ? That would be da Bomb.

P.S.
I was going to do the stormy sea in Maya unlimited but all the licenses for unlimited are being used by other artists here at work - Doh !

Thanks as always

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I am working with dreamscape right now on a project and I was thinking of trying the same thing, I was planning on exporting the foam to bitmaps and using those for the displacement not sure if it can handle creating the foam maps big enough to work though.

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Some ago i did that exacly , export the foam into bitmaps, and it worked fine :slight_smile:

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You could also try running noise and such through them when you re-bring them in. You might even get away with it being non-displaced.

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hmmm

this sounds intersting i would love to see what you guys are taking about ??? sorry never workd with dreamscape =(