It's just a little bit confusing changing between apps and finding that all of your menus are in a different place. Displacement maps apply the gray scale of the map to generate the displacement. Unlike Bump maps, a Displacement map actually changes the geometry of the surface or patch tessellation. The effect is similar to using the Displace modifier. There are several ways how you can set the intensity. A Displacement map displaces the geometry of surfaces. Activate the displacement map via Show Displaced Map in the View tab, so the program will create a 3D displacement map using the depth map.
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I'm looking forward to the painting tools in there as well.įinally, any chance of moving the main menus on to the Mac's menu bar (I see that you've got some custom menu dev in there, so I'm guessing that it's not as easy as it appears to a non-developer such as myself). Shadows More detail Silhouettes Better sense of depth HOW TO ENABLE DISPLACEMENT MAP Download the depth map in the Smart Materials Editor. The whole app looks great and if it answers this question then I'll gladly be buying. So, is the above possible? If so, where am I going wrong? None of the different view options (number keys) seem to make any difference. I guess that the answer could be with 'Adjust subpatching' but I can't make this do anything. Been through the menus to see if there's anything obvious and am still not getting anywhere.
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I've been through the help pdf and searched the forum. I've opened up both high and low poly models in maya and the UVs look to be identical (e.g. Here's the workflow that I followed:ġ, Base mesh (the Blender Monkey) in maya.Ģ, Create UVs (using Maya automatic mapping - this is just a test)ģ, Check that none of the UVs are overlappingĩ, Use 'import big mesh' and bring in the high poly
I'm not sure if this is a hole in my understanding of 3D Coat, but when I bring in the big mesh, nothing happens. If I can get this part of the loop then I'll be a happy man! So, what I want to do with 3D-Coat (initially) is use my Maya / Zbrush base mesh as the low poly 3DCoat 'carcass', bring in the high poly ZB sculpt (Big mesh) and then generate displacement maps to go back to Maya for rendering in Mental Ray. I love using ZBrush as a sculpting tool, know it pretty well and I spent a lot of cash on it so I'm not quite ready to drop it from my workflow, but the displacement issue means that you almost always hit a dead end in the pipeline. I'm a maya and ZBrush 3.12 user on the Mac and as any ZB Mac user will know, I've got the displacement map generation problem. I'm currently evaluating this to fill a big gap in my workflow. I'm new to 3D Coat, downloaded the demo and from what I've tried so far, I'm loving it, particularly the re-topology tools.
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