You now extract the difference of detail between the low res mesh and the high res mesh by aid of a vector displacement map. If the desire exists I can spend my capacities to find a solution.) (An appropriate workflow using PTex is possible, however until today I tried it as a start and it didn’t work. In my case, the lo res mesh has 100 poly and the hi res mesh 102400 polys, so I’ve got 6 subdivision levels.īe aware that the object has a clean UV-unwrapping assigned, I usually do this in ZBrush with UV Master. It has fewer polygons and as a result, fewer detail. The lowest subdivision level is a simplified version of the highest subdivision levels. Let’s say, you sculpted a character in Mudbox with several subdivision levels and a lot of detail. There are many great tutorials and much information available in the internet which I don’t want to repeat. If there are questions feel free to ask but please don’t expect me to explain you Max’ User Interface or the location of F1. – setting up VRayDisplacementMod and assign to low res objectĪ basic knowledge of each program is expected, I will not start at zero. – preparing the vector displacement map for use in VRayDisplacementMod – importing the low resolution mesh in 3ds Max – exporting vector displacement maps in Mudbox This workflow explains how to execute the following steps: If you want some more information follow the explanation below.īecause I know that there are a bunch of other designers which are desperately looking for such a workflow I decided to explain it one more time with the purpose that with more sources it would be found easier and shared to all of you. Here is the original post written by alvarezcb with the working max-file. But one day I stumbled across a short but remarkable post which contained a max-file with working settings, since then I am able to us this technique on my own. Websites like spot3d or neilblevins delivered much theoretical knowledge but a practical workflow lacks or my english is too bad.

I was researching in the internet, tweaking around with different settings but I’ve never figured out the correct ones. Over a long period of time I’ve been looking for a solution for this problem. Since I’ve learned that this post is quite strong visited I’d really like you to give some feedback concerning its content:ĭid this approach work for you or would you like to have any further information? Or maybe you have some helpful additions?

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