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And here's AlFan's displacement map for V6 on M6 HD (Subdiv level 3).
Settings: 0.3 for Height and -0.15 for Offset.

DAZ Studio's maptransfer wasn't completely flawless in the seam areas, but a bit of Photoshop TLC will easily repair that.
It is a shame though that DAZ Studio cannot export them at 16 bit colour depth, so some depth information will get lost as a result of this conversion.
Even so it's nice to have them.

Cheers!

Erik

Hi,
aoktar, the c4dOctane plugin developer, has found a very useful trick on how to use bump or normal maps together with displacement:
http://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=87&t=48024
The trick is to connect twice a material with bump or normal to the two materials slots in a mix material and use the separated pin of the mix material for connecting the displacement. and obviously works also with DAZ happy rendering
ciao beppe

bepeg4d wrote:Hi,
aoktar, the c4dOctane plugin developer, has found a very useful trick on how to use bump or normal maps together with displacement:
http://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=87&t=48024
The trick is to connect twice a material with bump or normal to the two materials slots in a mix material and use the separated pin of the mix material for connecting the displacement. and obviously works also with DAZ

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happy rendering
ciao beppe

that is clever.

@ erik-nl

Thank you so much for sharing your results.

Let's hope that more DAZ3D character artists will in the future create both bump / normal and also a displacement map versions for characters.
While I had some luck using bump maps in the displacement slot custom created displacement maps are certainly the prefered choice.

@ bepeg4d

Thank you a lot for posting that amazing find here as well.

Woheey!
Just tried that displacement+bump workaround, and it worked splendidly!
Thank you soooo much Beppe for posting about it here!

Cheers1

Erik

hi all,
I'm glad to help here, I'm absolutely inexpert with DAZ, but I have some experience with Octane and the integration is so good and intuitive that is pleasure to use it inside DAZ
Happy rendering
ciao beppe

That trick worked well with the somewhat complicated auto-generated (but of course modified) mixed material for Michael 6 HD's skin.
I did reduce the displacement settings somewhat from 0.3 and -0.15 to 0.2 and -0.1 and added some HD-detail from the Boris, Aging, and Veins sets (at SubDiv 3).

Oh, and the beard is by Laticis Imagery:
http://laticis.deviantart.com/art/Latic ... -521807046

Here's the result:

Wow, impressive, could you share a clay mode version too, thanks
ciao beppe

Thanks Beppe, sure!
I've only removed the diffuse maps from the skin material and the beard fibre geometry, the rest was left unchanged.

wow, simply great, the short beard is terrific
ciao beppe