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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?

You may find that displacement only works with height maps.

+1 This really needs to work.

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.

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

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.

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

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