Vray Displacement + Instancing

V-Ray V-Ray for 3ds Max Issues
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Hi,
can’t find a way to make displacement work with instances.

- using a displacement map on the MATERIAL: no results with tyflow, forest pack, chaos scatter

- using a displacement modifier on the instance (e.g. a sphere with vraydisplacement mod scattered over a plane) set to “use material” - same as above.

- using a displacement modifier on the instance with the bitmap in it - works only with chaos scatter with vray CPU (not gpu).

Any help? Vray 6.2.1 (cpu and gpu)

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Hi, thanks for posting.

Chaos Scatter works with displacement in the material and with VRayDisplacementMod:

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Forest Pack does not work in any of the two:

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This might be on Itoo’s part though. I will check and get back to you.

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Hi, just tried, and now it works with chaos scatter, yes - but this used to work with FP and TyFlow as well in past releases. Can it be fixed please?

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You could use the VRayInstancer to distribute instances instead. Make sure you enable the Particle Interface in tyFlow (Interfaces>Enable particle interface). FP surely has a similar option.

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that’s a possible workaround, but can this be native in vray? I could swear this used to work in the past, pretty sure works with other renderers…

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but this used to work with FP and TyFlow as well in past releases
Can you recall the specific versions of Forest Pack and V-Ray that worked? I tried to install older versions but they render no different that the latest.

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I’ll ask in the fylow fb group