Multi-res to texture displacement?

[anon65932258]

I can’t for the life of me find it now, though.

should be this:

So how does microdisplacement work now in 2.79?

And there is! You just need the low poly and the high poly to share the same UV coordinates. Bake the object coordinates of the high poly objects, subtract the object coordinates of the low poly objects, and done! I have a node (originally created by nudelZ) just for doing this stuff.