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Digital Daydreams
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Are there plans to be able to render a displacement map in FF2 at some point?

In the mean time are we suppose to use a bump map instead to drive displacement in most 3d apps?
Posted: January 8, 2011 3:52 pm   Details E-Mail
Skybase
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Displacement map = Bump map. Same thing.

The only difference is that displacement (as a feature of most 3D programs) creates additional geometry by extruding off the given mesh. smile;)
Posted: January 8, 2011 5:21 pm   Details E-Mail
Digital Daydreams
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My 3d app asks for a displacement map so that the map can drive additional geometry by extruding off the given mesh.

So it seems you are saying that I can just import the FF2 bump into the area asking for a displacement map and I should be good to go right?
Posted: January 8, 2011 6:23 pm   Details E-Mail
Skybase
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Yup.
Posted: January 8, 2011 8:58 pm   Details E-Mail
Digital Daydreams
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Thanks for help.
Posted: January 8, 2011 9:20 pm   Details E-Mail
ronviers
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I would also like to see a channel opened up for displacement. I have requested that. I do not use displacement and bump for the same thing. I use displacement maps for secondary detail, that is, any detail that changes silhouette and is not defined by the base mesh. I use the height channel, either grayscale bump or tangent space normal maps to define the tertiary level of detail - scratches, small scales etc.
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Posted: January 9, 2011 8:35 am   Details E-Mail

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