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Setting up render-time displacement effects

Setting up render-time displacement effects - V-Ray Tutorial

From the course: V-Ray 2.0 for Maya Essential Training

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Setting up render-time displacement effects

The increase in computing power that has become available to rendering artist over the past few years has turned what were once expensive effects in terms of the time taken to create them into essential daily use tools for adding quality and realism to our final renders. Render Time Displacement is one such effect. So let's run through setting up and controlling this particular effect in our V-Ray renders. We have as you can see our Displacement_Start scene file loaded. This consists of apparently three very unexciting spherical objects. But, if we just pull up the Maya render view for ourselves, you can see a render that we have taken off the scene as it stands at this moment in time. But, we actually have some very interesting render time displacement taking place onto of our three objects. What we want to do now is run through getting displacement working using our third and as of yet on this place sphere. Now, the first thing we need to do is to apply a material that will work as…

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