- Fri May 09, 2008 8:58 pm
#269053
I've just recently begun to use displacement in some projects and I'm now
thinking about another upcoming project where I'd want to show a pebble like surface.
Looking for opinions on how far, given a decent grayscale map, can displacement go creating a 3d look of something smooth like river rocks (pebbles)? If it can be done, is there a preferred way of making a grayscale map?
Also, how far can displacement go when intersecting an object -- is it possible for displacement to make an object appear to be embeded in the displacement.
The idea of having to model and randomize lots of pebbles is not the most appealing, so...
Thoughts on the subject much appreciated.
jvm
thinking about another upcoming project where I'd want to show a pebble like surface.
Looking for opinions on how far, given a decent grayscale map, can displacement go creating a 3d look of something smooth like river rocks (pebbles)? If it can be done, is there a preferred way of making a grayscale map?
Also, how far can displacement go when intersecting an object -- is it possible for displacement to make an object appear to be embeded in the displacement.
The idea of having to model and randomize lots of pebbles is not the most appealing, so...
Thoughts on the subject much appreciated.
jvm
yes it looks like some pebbles do slide under others but that's more of an illusion because you cannot do that with standard displacement, you can achieve that effect with Modo's vector displacement feature. However you can still fake a similar look by carefully painting your maps in a way so you shade the parts that will undercut other parts slightly darker, it's difficult to explain like this but think of how roofshingles lay ontop of eachother and a displacementmap for such roofshingles would look like fishscales where one scale fades in under the other and so on..
- By Andreas Hopf
- By choo-chee