After all, “high-octane” is often synonymous with increased power and performance. Octane also allows you to mix/layer vector/height displacement maps using the new displacement mixer node. It also touches on how to create a render network from scratch, recoloring with the Lookup TOP, and adding post-render shading with the SSAO TOP. Use offer code ARIEVBASH to get 15% off any Kitbash3D models! This is a tutorial in three parts: Part 1: Interactive Map Shader: Vertex Displacement. , and add a new pass with that type and the wiggle, to the camera depth normals replacement shader being used. If I use Vertex Displacement everything works fine, but as soon as I change to Texture Displacement it doesn’t show any Displacement. C4D Shaders enabled in the Octane Settings. The CPU maintains the original positions of the mesh's vertices, but when it passes those values to the GPU, those vertex positions are hijacked and displaced.

In Part 2 of this 2 part tutorial series ( watch Part 1 ), David Ariew shows you how to use Otoy Octane Render’s fantastic Displacement features to make complex greeble style surface geometry in Cinema 4D using 8K displacement maps he created in Illustrator. Unfortunately the way displacement works is counter-productive with the way you would make an architectural model. the closer it is, the more tessellation it recieves, and vice versa. Let me know if you have any questions.Dynamically recalculating normals after vertex displacement.

The process should be about the same in Kerkythea or Vray for Sketchup but I haven’t looked at it so I can’t be sure. I have also applied a transparency map in the above render because you can use maps singularly or layer them together to get the desired effect.īecause the displacement map is generating geometry, its profile is quite different from the bump map’s. So, instead of appearing to have depth, displacment maps actually give the texture depth.īut because they are creating geometry displacement maps are also the most computer intensive and take the longest to render.Īs you can see the displacement map brings the texture to life and interacts with the scene’s light source. Displacement maps are the third and most powerful of the common maps.ĭisplacement maps can use the same black and white image that was developed for the bump map but instead of shifting the image while it stays flat, the Displacement map actually generates geometry by using the map as a heightfield where white is the most displacement and black is the least.

What is a displacement map