Displacement Maps

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#1

Zbrush? Photoshop? The Gimp?

Meh, not needed for this little thing, but I’d like to learn how to use displacement maps. I’ve searched google, and found throught the Blender Wiki a program called “Zutilz”. Does anyone know how to operate it? – Nvm, can’t even compile it. MSVC maybe, but I don’t have that

Does anyone know any methods of creating Normal/Bump/Displacement maps of the objects in Blender?

Zbrush, that program seems to be amazing! Does anyone have any ideas on how to work with that?

Thanks in advance,
Nick

#2

Displacement maps I don’t know, but I think you can bake normal maps onto textures now with the CVS builds.

#3

Take the starting scene of Blender with one cube.

  • Add a material to the cube. Add a texture to the material, e.g. stucci with settings activated “Wall in”, “Hard noise”, noise size 0.025 and turbulence 1.50.
  • Go back to the “Map to” and disable COL and enable NOR and DISP. The nor value should be 0.05 and disp value should be 0.001.
  • Now comes the important part, otherwise the displacement is not working correctly: add a subsurf modifier and either use simple-subdivide or catmull in combination with 3 times subdivide.
  • RenderEt voila, …
    Martin
#4

Errrr, no that’s not what I meant.
I meant like Zbrush does, create the model, then save the displacement map of the model, and be able apply it to a low polygon mesh.

#5

Have you seen this tut?

http://feeblemind.tuxfamily.org/dotclear/index.php/2005/08/23/43-tutorial-blender-and-normal-maps