Blender - Mapping Textures w/o them being FLAT

[guyke]

Wow, again one of your nice examples on how to use Blender's features. Thanks, James

[ODdOnLifeItself]

You're welcome, Guy

It was fun to do.

Displacement mapping is such a powerful technique, I hope to somehow "inspire" (through how cool it looks, not necessarily by what I've done with it here) others to use it in their works...

Peace

James

[guyke]

I can't get it to work, James. Here's how I tried it:
- add a plane
- add a default new material
- add a texture - view/image - used one of your seamless tiles from your other recent post
- add another texture - kept clouds as default - untick color - tick displacement, with value .05
- set bump to best quality
- render - get a flat plane...

What am I missing ?

[ODdOnLifeItself]

Hello Guy,

For the displacement to have anything to "work with", the plane has to be subdivided and subdivided. (displacement merely moves vertices based on the displacement map, so if your image only has 4 vertices, nothing can really happen)

I'd use at least two levels of subdivision, with each maxed at 10.

Let me know how it goes...

James

[guyke]

Of course, James. That's what I forgot. Works perfectly. On the left without, on the right with displacement.

[ODdOnLifeItself]

Hello Guy,

Try this FILE as the Displacement image applied the same as you did with the Normal image. (ie. if you put the Normal image as 2 x 2 repeats, then same for the Displacement image so it lines up)



Take care

James

[guyke]

Wow, what a difference !

If I understand your way of working, you take a grayscale copy of the original to emphasize the displacement.

Thanks for letting me find out !



This really looks like a ceramic tile ...