hi there =)
i´m new in zbrush, but im looking forward to work with that amazing peace of software
and there is my first problem ^^
i try to export a displacementmap
thats how it looks in the settings (pic 1)
and on pic 2 you can see what i get after export O_o and i have no idea why?! make every step one to one how in the tutorial, but no mattee how often i tryed, i´ve got always the same result =(
hope you can help me, thank you in advance
Your settings are for a 32-bit map, but it looks like you’re trying to export it from Displacement Exporter. That won’t work. You need to use Multi Displacement 3 (in the Zplugin palette) so that ZBrush exports the map from RAM as it’s created.
The reason for this is that DE goes through the Alpha palette, which can’t display 32-bit maps. MDE does not.
Hi aurick,
was wondering if you could help me, i have jst finished my zbrush model and exported my dismap through the multi displacment 3 option in zbrush, it was a 16bit tiff. for some reason maya has decided not to reconise tiff files when trying to add the dismap to the file node in maya, this is what i got in the output window.
TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, C:/Documents and Settings/Bretapotamus/Desktop/Monster/monster_displace1001+d32.tif: invalid TIFF directory; tags are not sorted in ascending order.
TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, C:/Documents and Settings/Bretapotamus/Desktop/Monster/monster_displace1001+d32.tif: wrong data type 1 for “Software”; tag ignored.
TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, C:/Documents and Settings/Bretapotamus/Desktop/Monster/monster_displace1001+d32.tif: invalid TIFF directory; tags are not sorted in ascending order.
TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, C:/Documents and Settings/Bretapotamus/Desktop/Monster/monster_displace1001+d32.tif: wrong data type 1 for “Software”; tag ignored.
TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, C:/Documents and Settings/Bretapotamus/Desktop/Monster/monster_displace1001+d32.tif: invalid TIFF directory; tags are not sorted in ascending order.
TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, C:/Documents and Settings/Bretapotamus/Desktop/Monster/monster_displace1001+d32.tif: wrong data type 1 for “Software”; tag ignored.
TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, C:/Documents and Settings/Bretapotamus/Desktop/Monster/monster_displace1001+d32.tif: invalid TIFF directory; tags are not sorted in ascending order.
TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, C:/Documents and Settings/Bretapotamus/Desktop/Monster/monster_displace1001+d32.tif: wrong data type 1 for “Software”; tag ignored.
TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, C:/Documents and Settings/Bretapotamus/Desktop/Monster/monster_displace1001+d32.tif: invalid TIFF directory; tags are not sorted in ascending order.
TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, C:/Documents and Settings/Bretapotamus/Desktop/Monster/monster_displace1001+d32.tif: wrong data type 1 for “Software”; tag ignored.
TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, C:/Documents and Settings/Bretapotamus/Desktop/Monster/monster_displace1001+d32.tif: invalid TIFF directory; tags are not sorted in ascending order.
TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, C:/Documents and Settings/Bretapotamus/Desktop/Monster/monster_displace1001+d32.tif: wrong data type 1 for “Software”; tag ignored.
TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, C:/Documents and Settings/Bretapotamus/Desktop/Monster/monster_displace1001+d32.tif: invalid TIFF directory; tags are not sorted in ascending order.
TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, C:/Documents and Settings/Bretapotamus/Desktop/Monster/monster_displace1001+d32.tif: wrong data type 1 for “Software”; tag ignored.
TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, C:/Documents and Settings/Bretapotamus/Desktop/Monster/monster_displace1001+d32.tif: invalid TIFF directory; tags are not sorted in ascending order.
TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, C:/Documents and Settings/Bretapotamus/Desktop/Monster/monster_displace1001+d32.tif: wrong data type 1 for “Software”; tag ignored.
mental ray for Maya 9.0
mental ray: version 3.6.1.6, 17 Jul 2007, revision 21668
mental ray: got 8 satellite CPUs.
TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, C:/Documents and Settings/Bretapotamus/Desktop/Monster/monster_displace1001+d32.tif: invalid TIFF directory; tags are not sorted in ascending order.
TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, C:/Documents and Settings/Bretapotamus/Desktop/Monster/monster_displace1001+d32.tif: wrong data type 1 for “Software”; tag ignored.
TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, C:/Documents and Settings/Bretapotamus/Desktop/Monster/monster_displace1001+d32.tif: invalid TIFF directory; tags are not sorted in ascending order.
TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, C:/Documents and Settings/Bretapotamus/Desktop/Monster/monster_displace1001+d32.tif: wrong data type 1 for “Software”; tag ignored.
TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, C:/Documents and Settings/Bretapotamus/Desktop/Monster/monster_displace1001+d32.tif: invalid TIFF directory; tags are not sorted in ascending order.
TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, C:/Documents and Settings/Bretapotamus/Desktop/Monster/monster_displace1001+d32.tif: wrong data type 1 for “Software”; tag ignored.
TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, C:/Documents and Settings/Bretapotamus/Desktop/Monster/monster_displace1001+d32.tif: invalid TIFF directory; tags are not sorted in ascending order.
TIFFReadDirectory: Warning, C:/Documents and Settings/Bretapotamus/Desktop/Monster/monster_displace1001+d32.tif: wrong data type 1 for “Software”; tag ignored.
ive been through windows>settings and prefferences> plugin manager, and the tiff option is on, iam clueless.
sorry for all the waffling, i hope you can help me.
Thanks 
Maya uses .map files as its native type for displacements so you need to convert your .tif to a .map
You can get it here
http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/showpost.php?p=236569&postcount=77
once you have the converter icon you just drag the tif file onto it and it creates a map version which then works in mental ray no problem!