wolf359 opened this issue on Dec 22, 2004 ยท 8 posts
Eternl_Knight posted Wed, 22 December 2004 at 7:55 PM
The reason (I think) there isn't much use of the feature is the fact that bringing up Poser5 (and/or it's features) tends to bring out the Poser5-player-haters (as I like to call them grin) That said - I use it quite frequently. It's much better than a simple bump map (as the object silouhette matches the lighting) but one has to be careful when using it. Used on the character itself - one must make sure that ALL the materials use it otherwise things look funky, and using it on clothes tends to make props look wrong (for example, shirts/pants "displacing" into belts). My creations take this into account by simply masking the "belt area" of the underlying cloths (using a grayscale texture) and having the displacement under it ~0. Actually makes things look that little bit cooler when you can see the belt actually "pulling in" the underlying cloth :)