where to get/how to create displacement maps?

[blumentopferde]

Hello!

I have quite a problem with creating a material: Id like to make a material that looks like a grid of wire. meaning that there should be a displacement map that creates a round shape - on both sides of the face it is applied to - while the rest of the face is invisible (see picture). but how to create such a map? how do in know which grayscale gradient results in a cylindrical shape? how to create such gradients or where could i get them? is there maybe something like a basic displacement map library on the web?

hope you can help me out (and hope that i posted in the right forum!)

cheers!

[siliconbauhaus]

Unless you're close up then a bitmap and a alpha map is more than sufficient. If you're close up then I'd model it mate

[jessic]

Go to google search to get more help.

[Clanger]

I would model the shape then render a depth map from the top view result perfect displacement to recreate the model.

[WAcky]

This thread is 2 months old guys. I would assume the original poster has solved the problem by now.

[Peter M. Gruhn]

I would assume no such thing.