Quote - @afrodite

Do not mix bump with displacement.
Bump only gives an illusion.
Displacement, displaces the mesh.
With a texture-displacement map of 4096x4096 available for each material you can make very detailed clothes.
it is like having 4096x4096 poly's for each material.
But, they have one limitation; those micro poly's only move in-out relative to the surface.

Before you suggest I don't know what a displacement is, I suggest you take a look at my store. Particularly my Suprema series, and look at the texture details.

I never said you can't make clothes with that, I said it simply doesn't look quite right. A displaced bikini over skin looks very much GLUED to skin to me, there's no indentation at the hems to see where fabric ends and skin begins, and to cast proper ambient occlusions. Looks alright from a distance, but in a close/zoomed render... it looks just plain fake to me. The only thing I think looks ok with displacement on skin is lace and sheer stockings... because in real life they're very thin materials.

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