You know how ya can Create Geometry from bump maps to create landscapes.

you know how zBrush can create geometry using alpha maps.

Was wondering if we had a character mapped and had a dragon scale bump map covering all of the mesh.
If there was some way to convert the bump map in to geometry on the mesh ?

I want to create geometry on to all of "360 degrees" the mesh all at the same time from a 2D map.

So how do we do this in what CGI App's ?

Thanks.

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