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Displacement not working

Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2014 10:40 am
by tane
Hey everybody,

it seems as if the displacement is not working anymore on my workstation.
I have no clue why.


I opened a new scene and set renderer to Octane.
In the material editor I create a new simple white diffuse material.
I set a displacement node with a greyscale Map in it. But it does not show me any displacement. I set the value from 0.01 to 5.0 without any changes.

Any hints, what I might be doing wrong? I used it last time some months ago and it was working back then.

I am using Max 2015 with the newest Max-plugin.

Thank you all in advance

Re: Displacement not working

Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2014 9:55 pm
by Karba
Do you use image texture for the displacement?

Re: Displacement not working

Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2014 10:02 am
by tane
I tried both, RGB Image node and Greyscale Image node. Also Noise Texture.

All of it is not working.

Re: Displacement not working

Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2014 9:06 am
by wastzzz
Did you apply a mapping? Like UVWMap.
M.

Re: Displacement not working

Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 12:38 pm
by tane
Yes, mapping is applied - the diffuse texture looks good with the same UVs.

I remember that it worked before and I could see the displacement on the small material preview spheres. Now it isn't visible there either.

I tried values from 0.001 to 1000.0 without any visual effect.

Re: Displacement not working

Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2014 12:12 pm
by brettg19802
I agree, the displacement nodes aren't working anymore with the new version. Can't get noise or turbulence working right anymore. It used to work, but now its broken.

Re: Displacement not working

Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2014 4:28 pm
by coilbook
i could never get displacement to work using octane noise or any other octane maps I thought it is only for bitmaps

Re: Displacement not working

Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2014 7:11 am
by tane
but even those don't work for me.

Re: Displacement not working

Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 8:22 am
by tane
It is still not working here :-(

Any new information about it?

Re: Displacement not working

Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 1:28 pm
by akira
Hi
It works here, i made a simple sample for you to test. Let's see if it work or not on your pc.
displacement.zip
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