# Scatter over displaced surfaces

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**Created:** [December 2, 2022, 11:17pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/scatter-over-displaced-surfaces/154872 "2022-12-02T23:17:07Z")\
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Scattering over the displaced surface is not supported yet. If that feature is important to you, you can cast your vote here: [https://forum.corona-renderer.com/](https://forum.corona-renderer.com/) [The most wanted Chaos Scatter feature?](https://forums.chaos.com/t/153718) the option is called “render-time displacement support”.

For the moment the workaround is to convert displacement to geometry and use it for scattering. You can optimize/approximate converted geometry to reduce polygon count and make it invisible for the render. Displaced surface would be used for visual representation and optimized geometry for scattering. I hope that makes sense.

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