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Expanded metal with normal maps (VRayNormalMap)

By On April 22, 2011 · 4 Comments

Last year, Peter posted an interesting article on how to make nice looking expanded metal with displacement maps (this technique is covered here on my blog or here on BBB3 blog)

That reminded me an old project of doing this material only with opacity & normal map and after some research, it [...]

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Displacement and Gamma issues with V-Ray

By On September 8, 2009 · 1 Comment

This might intrest thos who work in Linear color mapping with a gamma curve (like the so called Linear Workflow LWF with 2.2 gamma correction). I recently bumped into an annoying side effect of putting an input gamma for bitmap files other than 1.0 in Max : Diplacement maps gets corrected aswell…

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Tutorial / Creating V-Ray displacement maps from hi poly tiling geometry

By On September 26, 2007 · 14 Comments

UPDATE : Zip file with illustrations & max 7.0 files can be downloaded here.

This tutorial is about making a displacement map out of complex geometry that can be then applied to any object, no matter his curvature (with the VRayDisplacementMod for example) to recover the hi poly look of [...]

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