ockham opened this issue on Jun 08, 2009 ยท 95 posts
bagginsbill posted Mon, 15 June 2009 at 2:27 PM
Seriously, I'm asking. You said you were impressed with the way it handled displacement maps. It doesn't appear to have any displacement - it appears exactly like a bump map.
At the edges the figure has no obvious 3-dimensionality on the surface. And, as I said, it distinctly lacks even simple roundness that you get with sub-division surfaces or you get with REYES polygon smoothing as in Firefly, which is a kind of automatic displacement to get low-poly objects to look smoother.
I'm trying to understand what you're talking about.
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