[tuhopuu-devel] Displacement mapping...

Robert Wenzlaff tuhopuu-devel@blender.org
Fri, 2 Jan 2004 17:51:17 -0500


On Friday 02 January 2004 01:16, Daniel Fairhead wrote:
> > >Disp is looking good! Is there a way of changing ammount of Disp though?
> > >Sometimes I got quite a lot, other times extremely little...
> >
> > The var slider.  Other than that it depends on your texture input.
>
> Ah, OK. I was meaning for larger sizes. For instance, if you create a plane
> (and subdivide it, of course) the size of the perspective-view grid, and
> give that a disp-mapped texture, even with var1.0 it is still un-noticeable
> size.

OK, maybe I need to take into account object size in the displace formula.  I 
can get the value min-max values from the bounding box and scale the 
displacement proportionally.

I'll post an update this weekend.

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