Vector displacement...since you brought it up

[Toddd]

I watched the zbrush/c4d presentation yesterday and was surprised to hear vector displacement mentioned, it had seemed to fade into the fog since its release years ago. I for 1 would love to see some comprehensive information about this feature and it’s useage with vray(specifically), or anything really outside the c4d pipeline.
Paul did a great job presenting as usual, I was just so surprised to hear him say vector displacement since it isn’t really mentioned in the forum postings or anywhere for that matter.

thanks for any info!

T.

[Spyndel]

Hi @Toddd !

This is a good place to start:

http://docs.pixologic.com/user-guide/3d-modeling/exporting-your-model/vector-displacement-maps/

You may also enjoy the VDM brushes as a sculpting tool:

http://docs.pixologic.com/user-guide/3d-modeling/sculpting/sculpting-brushes/vector-displacement-meshes/

[Toddd]

I appreciate the reply SPYNDEL,

That info hasn’t changed since 2012, I dont know if ZB or vray is to blame, but back in 2012 I did some extensive trial and error to no avail, and after your posting tried to simply get the diagnostic file to work without any sort of success.
Using 3ds max 2021 and vray 5.

thanks for posting this, hopefully there is something more comprehensive out there

Best

Todd