MAX6 MR Displacement Shader

[William Alexander]

Hey,

 

Great shader and displacement, beats the snot out of anything I have used.

 

The question/s, see attachement

*This is obvoiusly a mesh realted problem

*Apears to be view dependant, i.e. displacing toward camera or sampling based on poly face & view angle

*This is an extreme case, large aspect and high AA sampling (16/4)

 

? Is the MR tessalation/displacement view dependant and or object (vertices/ polys)

? Would one large poly eliminate the per poly face sampling

? Is edge visibility an issue

? Would a direction displacement sub map be worth the effort to create and use.

? Any technical explanation as to how MR & the displacement shader interprets the map and geometry. Grass displacement would be awsome, but with these types of issues it may look like a genetic seed farm's test field.

 

 

Thanks for any info

WDA

[jucaro]

> Is the MR tessalation/displacement view dependant and or object (vertices/ polys)

--Its Both. You can adjust the parameters thru the Render Tab of The render Dialog

 

> Would one large poly eliminate the per poly face sampling

--No, its not necessarily the case. You can even do a great displacement with even the lowest polygon count.

 

> Is edge visibility an issue

--Yes. Use the MR edge shader to elliminate this.

 

> Would a direction displacement sub map be worth the effort to create and use.

--Havent been successfull so far. But you can try it using the shaderlist.

 

> Any technical explanation as to how MR & the displacement shader interprets the map and geometry. Grass displacement would be awsome, but with these types of issues it may look like a genetic seed farm's test field.

--Too bad, discreet sucks at this when it comes to documentation. But there was a free video tutorial about this at evermotion.org

 

Hope this helps.

 

Btw, Grass in MR is great. IMO