True displacement possible with Cycles?

[filibis (Emir Sinan Gürlek)]

@Ace_Dragon

which Blender can’t bake to right now

You can bake vector displacement via this addon ShaderNodesExtra. Also check this:

So how does microdisplacement work now in 2.79?

Download the master in the zip format, install it from the preferences menu, just like any other addon, and enable it. After that, the DisplacementBake node will be available in the node editor. To use it on your file some things need to be done… First, you need an UVmap in your object. Also, with the multires modifier, it’s allways better to ‘reshape’ it before proceding. The baking target images should be 32bit floating point, and their colorspace (on the Properties panel) should be set to…