Displacement map BUG!!!

[tschwenke]

Hi,

Works here also quite well. Perhaps an update to 3.05.01 ?

Best wishes,
Thomas

[protovu]

Thanks, Thomas. That must be it. I will update later today.

By the way, are you able to use the Alpha Image channel?

[tschwenke]

Hi,
What do you mean by Alpha channel? The Alpha channel of the Carrara Multichannel shader? With what image (format)?
Best wishes,
Thomas Schwenke

[protovu]

Hi Thomas,
The attached shows the channel, which has not yet worked for me. Perhaps the update you recommend will help. Using this will add another layer of control to animated Materials.

[tschwenke]

Hi again,
Uh, never used that one. What can you do with it? I normally use opacity maps (with b/w) or just pngs with alpha channels, so I cannot tell you if it's working or not.
Best wishes,
Thomas

[protovu]

My thinking:
It could be used something like the native Carrara layers list.
Or, maybe an Alpha channel animation could be used for a unique surface.
Separately, the Opacity channel could be used for another effect, perhaps to grow or modify the original surface.

[tschwenke]

Hmm, don't understand fully here what you mean. I wait for a render from you using this, then I'll understand

[protovu]

Yes. If I get it to work, and can do something worth while, I will post.

[Sighman]

An Alpha Image is like a grayscale image except that is uses the Alpha Channel of a PNG or TIF. It basically ignores the color channels.

https://docs.otoy.com/manuals/products/ ... -textures/

[tschwenke]

Good to know, thx