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telnoi-c4d
05-05-2006, 04:51 PM
Well, tried zbrush instead of Hexagon for normal\displacement maps. I've read through the zbrush-c4d pipeline manual and rendered out a displacement map through md2 with the following settings.

Zbrush
-model subdivision 6
-32 bit RGB: DE-LCGK-EAEAEA-4D_32 (also tried other supported formats)
-dpsubpix 3
-border 2

C4D
Strength 100%
HDRI gamma 1

The created displacement map looks very weird and doesn't werk well in c4d at all. I've also tried a normal map, which has no issues.

http://forums.cgsociety.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=94907&stc=1 (http://forums.cgsociety.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=94907&stc=1)

Zbrush "preview"
http://forums.cgsociety.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=94908&stc=1 (http://forums.cgsociety.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=94908&stc=1)


C4D Render
http://forums.cgsociety.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=94909&stc=1 (http://forums.cgsociety.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=94909&stc=1)

It seems that the contrast\brightness of the displacement map is wrong. If i change the strenght settings etc I won't be able to render out the contour at all.

What am i doing wrong here?

p.s. Hopefully this isn't the 100th message with this issue. I've searched the forums, but couldn't find something with similar issue (only checkerboard patterns etc).
telnoi-c4d
05-05-2006, 09:25 PM
Issue fixed. Seems you have to render out normal maps at the second highest subdivision level, while you have to render out dispacement maps at subdivision 1.
chi
05-06-2006, 06:38 PM
actualy you want to render out all maps at your lowest subdivision level in zbrush...allthough usualy if you try to render your maps at a higher level zbrush just gives you an error
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