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Vector displacement OTOH lets you specify not only the amount of 'push' but also the direction. Which is what lets you sculpt the object out of a primitive in second life (in a limited way of course)

Hmm. I have not seen the article but this sounds REALLY interesting!

Looks like you can define a morph in a bitmap, using one channel per direction (typically red=x, green = y, blue=z), and then you can:

1 - share morphs between geometries that have same UV mapping but different node order and arrangement.
2 - affect/mix morphs and vary their strength over the object using a shader tree.

In fact, it would be easy to generate such maps from existing geometry/morph definitions.

Hey I am looking forward to this new Poser Pro!

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