Displacement Units

Wed Jul 30, 2014 4:59 am

I'm having trouble correlating Octane's displacement units with real-world units. I've been having the same difficulty in MAX and SketchUp. I've used a height of 0.01 to displace siding 3/8" and to displace grass 6". I'm stumped. Help?

Wed Jul 30, 2014 5:31 am

jscottsmith wrote:I'm having trouble correlating Octane's displacement units with real-world units. I've been having the same difficulty in MAX and SketchUp. I've used a height of 0.01 to displace siding 3/8" and to displace grass 6". I'm stumped. Help?

displacement units are meters.

Wed Jul 30, 2014 7:28 am

I had no idea this was a real number. Must have a look now

Wed Jul 30, 2014 2:07 pm

Meters, eh? I'll have to experiment a bit to test that with my scene. Would be nice if it honored scene units.

Thanks!

Thu Jul 31, 2014 8:23 am

+1 for scene units adaptation.

I'm always working in centimeters and almost everytime I need to tweak my displacement map because I can't use a value lower than 0.001

Thu Jul 31, 2014 8:44 am

remKa wrote: I can't use a value lower than 0.001

Customize>Preferences>General>Precision

Suv

Fri Aug 01, 2014 2:40 pm

Well ! I guess there is always something to find out with 3ds max..

Thx Suv

Fri Aug 01, 2014 2:49 pm

Well ! I guess there is always something to find out with 3ds max..

Thx Suv