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jeffsarge
04-30-2009, 11:06 PM
Having trouble w/ Mudbox displacements. I'm getting faceted results in Maya w/ both MR and renderman. I'm doing a jacket and drawing in the details w/ displacement. The collar area which should be smoothly curved renders as a series of straight segments. If I look at the map in Photoshop I can see that is in fact facteted and not smoothly curved. I've tried all the smoothing options in the Mudbox output dialogue but still no good. Funny thing is if I bring that same map back into mudbox it displaces the geometry perfectly. I get the smooth curves. Any ideas???

Attached is a detail of the displacement map.

Thanks,
Jeff

jeffsarge
04-30-2009, 11:17 PM
Having trouble w/ Mudbox displacements. I'm getting faceted results in Maya w/ both MR and renderman. I'm doing a jacket and drawing in the details w/ displacement. The collar area which should be smoothly curved renders as a series of straight segments. If I look at the map in Photoshop I can see that is in fact facteted and not smoothly curved. I've tried all the smoothing options in the Mudbox output dialogue but still no good. Funny thing is if I bring that same map back into mudbox it displaces the geometry perfectly. I get the smooth curves. Any ideas???

Attached is a detail of the displacement map.

Thanks,
Jeff

Also included snapshot of UV layout