@tworoniak3d: Very nice work 
I have the testversion of C4D V8.5
Its heavy nice Program !
But there is a Watermark on rendering 
I see good result by using Displacement and Relief !
I used the tutorial from the third post in this thread (!best thanks!).
First C4D Post. Its from āCornelā !
Link - click here
To Felix_Man:
I have written several posts about how important using normal AND displacement maps together is. Most 3D packages do not realise this. If they supply a normal map plug-in at all, It is usually designed to work only in open-GL renders. But the truth of the matter is that rendering animation is a lot tougher then rendering a single still image.
If you jack up the subdivision level on your model you may get a great STILL IMAGE but your machine will never render an animation in a realistic amount of time.
That is where the normal map comes in; It allows you to lower your Sub-Div level to a realistic number and still show all the details. ( USUALLY APPLIED WITH A 3RD PRTY PLUG-IN )With out BOTH the project will probably never finish rendering in our life time or will just run out of memory and crash.
Hi everybody!
Since i donāt get a single vertex to move through displacement, could someone please advice exactly how to set up the scene and rendering in Maya 6 with the built in mental ray!
thanx in advance!
āIn the near future, I plan to write a ZBrush plugin which will enable you to specify a target application, and ZBrush will export the map(s) in a ready-to-use format.ā
Any word on when this plugin may be ready?
Rendered with messiah:studio 2.0 (http://www.projectmessiah.com/). Since messiah supports 16 bit greyscale images natively and has an easy to use MinMax node to ācenterā the values around zero (with settings of -1.0 for min and 1.0 for max), ZBrush displacements are very easy to import (it even has U/V-flipping buttons so you donāt have to do that externally).
The rendering in 1024x1024 took 4.20 minutes on a P4 3.2 Ghz with 2pass āEnhancedā Antialiasing, Subpolydisplacement, MonteCarlo GI and a slight raytraced reflection of the environment.
The only problem are the errors in the displacementmap that are also visible when the file is reimported in ZBrush itself and used for displacement thereā¦ messiah is a bit more āunvorgivingā in this regard
Cheers,
Thomas Helzle
Helloā¦
Hereās a Messiah Studio 2.0 quick test.
6 min render with three soft ray trace shadow spots and maximum antialiasing settings.
Cheers,
Gregg āT.Rexā Glezakos
3D Artist
well maybe this thread is deadā¦ but iƤll post my little mental ray for maya 6 render anyways 
results look quite nice i think
heres what i did:
flipped map in ps
converted to rgb
saved to 16bit tif
loaded up the model ni maya and applyed the map
set the alpha gain to 8,34 (ie the zbrush disp. gain * 10)
set the alpha ofset to -4.5. this value was worked out by trying to set the alpha ofset as low as possible starting at -5 in this case and working upwards
disp. aprox set to finest hi qual. preset and the distance setting set to 0.025
subdiv aprox set to spratial min 4 and max 9 subdivisions and distance to 0.50
rendertime at production quality 56 secounds
on a 2700xp athlon w/ 512 drr333 ram
Finally!!! Dont know if itās the complete resetup of the system or aL3891ās setupā¦
but this time the displacemt workedā¦
additionally i tried to add a bone driven expression to see how the map would look alikeā¦ except the lazy skinning inside the mouth, and the fact the head wasnāt modelled for such things in this region i find the result promisingā¦
Max 5.1 and VRay beta 1.45.70
Good Displace Vray Beta!!
What settings??!!
Hi Nekro3D,
Here is a screen capture of the displacement settings. Shift by average has the same affect as the -.25 shift with this displacement map. I also used global illumination and one target direct light.
bisenberger could you post your scene?
I donāt have the same result, I think it a scale issue wth the mesh and the units set up of Max
I test several times with this objet or personnal work and my result in Vray are far from perfect
Helloā¦
Hereās another test, this time using Lightwave 8.
Cheers,
Gregg āT.Rexā Glezkos
3D Artist
And another one with Messiah Studio 2 again, but this time with some more surfacing on and a biger renderā¦
Cheers,
Gregg āT.Rexā Glezakos
3D Artist
Hi all I took me like 3 hours to read all the treads but I made it Still I cant get the head model to render right in my 3D MAX6
There was 2 replys with the instructions and I did it although it didnt work here is my screen as you can see I checked āUse exsisting mappingā although when I rotate the displacment gizmo I se the changes on the Head. What am I doing wrong how do I set up the UVās? also when i change the strenght of the displacment it eather inflates or colapses.
Donāt you need to set V Tile to -1? And have you Meshsmoothed or otherwise subdivided the mesh?
With respect to Poser 5, EXACTLY how did you manipulate the TIF file to get it to work properly? Saying āinvertā alone is not enough to tell me whether you inverted the alpha channel or the vert/horiz position.
Same question for LW 8.
Thanks!!!
āScot
Wellā¦
For LW all i did was load the 16bit TIFF in Photoshop, flipped it verticaly and re-saved as 16bit Tiffā¦
MessiahStudio2 have a āflip Yā option for texturesā¦
Cheers,
Gregg āT.Rexā Glezakos
3D Artist
Thanks! bisenbergerā¦
Testing Now configs in vray beta, LoL!