Quote - I tried uping the subdivision but it just made it worse, didn't try micro facets; trying it now! thanks!

The reason for the distortion is the very low res of the mesh. If you have a wall with one single quad even 8 levels of subdivision will only give you 16384 polys which will be fairly big. If you stopped at around 5 levels of subdivision that would only give you 256 polys, which could only be displaced in a very coarse fashion.

An alternative to using displacement maps, especially for BG elements, is to replace them with Normal Maps.

Paolo

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