Making Displacement maps in ZB-2....How?

[robkoni]

Hi chaps......so I just got this fine tool yesterday ,and am really busy with work ,and am fundementally lazy :o
Soooooooooo,I want to bring a Mesh in from LW(or any other program)
Do i UV the object in my native package , or do i do this in ZB-2
How do i do this,
is there a step by step guide.......
very impressed by this forumn and the product so far
Love the learning Scripts(any one got any on Displacement mapping Tutorials......
Thanks Robin

[Zeddicus]

You can do the UV's in either app. You'll have more control doing it outside of ZB, though ZB's AUV/GUV tiling can also work quite well if your needs aren't too demanding. You'll want to export your base mesh as a OBJ file and import that as a polymesh tool in ZB. I don't know what the best settings are for moving your model back and forth between apps, I use 3DS Max and had to experiment in order to find the perfect settings so that XYZ stayed XYZ.

As for actually subdividing the mesh and making disp/bump/normal maps, click the help button in ZB. Then click List All Zscript Tutorials, then go to page 2 and click on Modeling: Displacment Mapping. I'm sure other LW users will fill you in on everything else you need to know after that point (exporting from ZB and setup in LW).