Hello, friendly gurus.

This is a test render of a scene I'm building- I've got exactly the lighting effects I want, but I need to stop the cracks appearing in the cracks, as it were.

The ground model is a 'cracked ground' model I've got from somewhere (possibly Turbosquid, I think) and I've tweaked it a little in Modo. I've also applied texture, displacement, and normal maps from ShareCG, which I think is causing the white gaps in the mesh.

Oh gurus, is there a way of stopping the white gaps? Would gentle bevelling of the edges help, or make things worse? Or maybe somebody knows of a really good Cracked Ground model I could use, to have characters appearing out of the ground from.

Yours, etc.

 

try rendering with displacement unchecked, i had this along seams of a garment when i used irregular displacement maps

 

if its that then you can change the displacment to mid grey around the seams on both areas where they join,

 

ill try and find the thread i started when I had issues,

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If your disp map is based on RGB 128 = no displacement, then you must

1. Ensure the texture map gamma = 1

2. Use a math:subtract node to subtract .5 from it - this offset creates the desired + or - displacement around the mid-gray value.

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there is another thread also mentioned on there,

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actually what BB said, the gaps seem regular and not gappy in places so what he said rather than what i said, its been a long day! :)))

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Thanks chaps, that has done the trick! I flailed about with the Math node for a while, but I've got it now.

And Lully, your work looks soooo good! I simply MUST learn how to 3D model.

It looks like it will be an awesome render. I love your lighting effects.

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I aim to update it about once a month.  Oh, and it's free!

Quote - And Lully, your work looks soooo good! I simply MUST learn how to 3D model.

 

Thanks, you should learn, you will save a fortune if you buy all your stuff now and get more satisfaction out of it because YOU made it :)

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I have Modo 501, I just have to sit down and learn how to use the thing. Probably looking at the Modo thread here might help!