I try to make a nice hairstyle for my Aila character. Just prop hair, combined with a texture i found somewhere(name is 'furry ice') which nicely gives the effect I want. It heavily relies on a displacement map. Now here's the prob. The image is rendered in chunks with the size of the 'bucket. Apparently displacements originating in one charge of the 'bucket' do not show up in another charge. Consequently the hair is split up in squares the size of the 'bucket'. Increasing the bucket size to the size of the picture makes memory requirements jump to the sky. Any solution anyone?

Bagoas

Increase the minimum displacement bounds under render settings.

which solves the problem. Stupid of me not to think of that one!

Thanks!

B.

thanks--i never knew there was a solution for this!

doesn't always work, however, depending on resolution of the part being displaced., or the mesh density , if you will...guess that's what causes it. I guess what I'm trying to say...is that if you use too high a displacement setting, even that will not fix the problem on lower res figures.

I am using displacement setting 1.0 on a black and white map in the materials room, and minimum displacement bounds setting of 1.0 for the firefly renderer.

Poser is quite vague in permissable input settings, but I guess anything beyond that could be seen as extrapolation where one is at his own risk.

Oddly enough Ch 46 of the P5 manual specifies that the renderer setting is in pixels! The displacement in my picture (in pixels) is much larger. Yet another Poser mistery.

B.