Baking height map from texture?

[Pownie]

Ok, so I'm probably too dumb to understand the manual, but can someone please share with me how exactly to bake a height map from a plane with a material with displacement on top in Octane?

[bepeg4d]

Hi Pownie,
currently you cannot bake the displacement with Material passes, but only the Tangent Normal pass.
You need to use an orthographic camera to obtain a Z-depth pass useful for displacement.
Look at this old discussion:
viewtopic.php?f=78&t=39376&p=183626&hil ... nt#p183626
ciao beppe

[Pownie]

Thanks for replying!

However, it says I'm not authorized to read the forum?

[bepeg4d]

Hi Pownie,
sorry, my fault, I have not noticed that was from one of our internal discussion.
Anyway, here is a cople of example textures obtained with the Zdepth pass and annorthographic camera, with just a little correction of levels in PS:

ciao beppe

[Pownie]

Cheers, appreciate it!