vertexmap and displacement

[rleuchovius]

Hello

I recently saw a Maxon video from NAB. It dealt with revealing different displacement with the use of vertex maps produced by fields. Link below. The renderer in use was Redshift.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzaL7X75Dy0

We have a project coming up and we want to use a similar approach. However I cannot get the displacement-mixer or the vertex map in conjunction with displacements to work.

The displacement mixer does not output any result at all. Also as soon as I hook up a displacement node my vertex map disappears.

Is this a know limitation or is there a work around?

[TonyBoy]

You may find that displacement only works with height maps.

[fatrobotsneedlove]

+1 This really needs to work.

[Terryvfx]

I came today to make the exact same topic.

Now that Octane natively support Vertex Weights and also we have Vertex Displacement having this not working is a total bummer, this kind of effects using vertex maps along with displacement is super common in today's Motion Graphics. I would very much love to have this working.

[aoktar]

This is not a plugin based problem or request. We can use everything that's supported by the renderer

[Goldorak]

We should have the pieces to support this native in 2020.x. Will circle back with Ahmet to discuss how to expose to the C4D plug-in, and what further changes may need to be made to the core if necessary.

[Terryvfx]

Thank you so much, this feature would be really killer in Cinema 4D.

[Terryvfx]

Bump for interest. I just wanted to ask if is there a roadmap for this feature?