How to Use Displacement Maps in Blender (Tutorial)

[@PlagueRavenRX]

3 Years old, but still incredibly helpful. Many videos out there give the wrong information and don't go into as much detail and I'm glad I found this. Solved all my problems.

[@gerdsfargen6687]

Having such a fun time following these tutes. Just watching these come to life in my own copy of Blender is such a joy. This dude makes JOY.

[@RyanKingArt]

Thanks!!

[@alekskenins]

I'm trying to use Blender to make some animated Dungeons and Dragons maps, and this has totally changed the game. Excellent explanation, clear and concise. Thank you!

[@RyanKingArt]

Cool, glad it was helpful!

[@Neon-bd6vk]

How did they go? Hope they looked sick in the end

[@marekpietrak8279]

Thank you very much kind sir! One thing to note for anyone who might still be having misaligning displacement even after setting the 'Displacement coordinates setting to UV' is that you should set your texture mapping scale settings to 1 for XYZ and only then scale the UV unwrap vertices under UV editing to adjust the scale of the bricks. I had this issue and took me some time to figure it out. Thanks!

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks for the info. 👍‍

[@Julix00]

Thanks, this is what I was looking for!

[@AccidentalKulture]

Ow damn that wrangler adds quality of life, thanks for that!

[@sofiabutuc9436]

Thanks for showing the node wrangler add-on! You have just saved me a lot of time in setting up textures.

[@noobinnook4474]

Thank you Mr. King! Clear to understand texture mapping process step by step. You are a node wizard!

[@RyanKingArt]

Haha, thank you!

[@shriyut]

Man, I just type the keywords and your tutorials are right there! Amazing work again! 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks for watching!

[@iambricko]

This is gold! So many lightbulb moments. Thank you for this.

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad it was helpful!

[@juanmaburrido2671]

Thanks for your explanation. Im doing my final project and your vids help me so much. When its over I want to show you. Thanks again and support from Spain!💪

[@RyanKingArt]

glad it helped!

[@feraskaissy471]

The Best Blender tutorials on the internet

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks!

[@redshiftz8520]

Dude you are a Dimond. been looking for a simple explanation of this process and your's rocks. Subscribed !

[@RyanKingArt]

Thanks for the sub! 😀

[@Dimplesapplepie]

Neat, you know all blender ! Easy to follow, you forget nothing, you're a pro

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad you like it!

[@BrianLife]

You're the best, thanks! Keep rockin it!

[@RyanKingArt]

Thanks, will do!

[@robertlarsson241]

I was just in blender using that exact brick texture and then i see this, haha. Great tutorial!

[@RyanKingArt]

Lol cool. Thanks for watching!

[@joeykim8053]

I was starting to get confuesd between the two methods and this pretty much sums everything up for me. Thanks!

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching Joey!

[@AtomiccKaiju]

Thanks for having, a tutorial that needs other tutorials to work.

[@tomhools1605]

7:57 I did everything you said but I can't get it to be bumpy (3rd dimension). I do get 3rd dimension when I use displacement modifier but can't with a map. i use blender 3.0

[@RyanKingArt]

Did you turn on the displacement and bump setting, at 3:18 in the video? Also, make sure your using Cycles render. If your using Blender Eevee, I go over another method for using displacements in this video.

[@tomhools1605]

@@RyanKingArt wait. I see the wall (bumps) in 3D but only if I render it. I was watching it in "Material Preview" window, so I need to put on "Rendered" window. btw it would be helpful if you made a brick house tutorial. It can be a very simple house.

[@RyanKingArt]

Thanks for the video idea. 👍‍

[@oh_he_vibin]

I have followed the exact steps for the first method, yet the displacement is not even working/becoming 3D on the texture, it stays completely flat even with subdivision

[@RyanKingArt]

Hmm, I'm sorry that its not working for you. I don't know why.

[@AshElectric]

Setting the feature set setting under cycles as "experimental" ended up fixing this for me (it gave me the adaptive option)

[@MIC_Enjoyer]

@@AshElectric That gave me the adaptive option but it's still flat. It's probably because I'm rocking an AMD GPU.

[@hussainelsalih2975]

Thank you Rayan. Great Tutorial.

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad you liked it!

[@adiel5763]

I've been struggling with this since I started using blender!😅 Thank you Ryan!🙌😊

[@RyanKingArt]

You're welcome!

[@seanposkea]

Me too. Every time I forget that you have to open "Settings" and "Surface" to find the displacement view dropdown! Why the heck isn't that under Displacement?!

[@adiel5763]

@@seanposkea I have no idea... But they have to fix it😅

[@BrianLife]

@@seanposkea agreed

[@calhoub]

Do you have an updated video for 3.3? At 3:25, the Settings>Surface>Displacement feature isn't in 3.3, or at least that I've found. Everything else seems to be on par, but I'm not getting any displacement anywhere. Not even getting surface look changes.

[@clavius500]

Nice and clear, and calmly presented, thanks!

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad it was helpful!

[@DanielSamulewiczXXI]

I love your 3Dee-e and Meshhh of course!

[@RyanKingArt]

👍‍

[@aleksvitek798]

The blender king himself!

[@RyanKingArt]

Thanks : )

[@KD9-37]

Thank you for this tutorial, Ryan!

[@RyanKingArt]

you're welcome!

[@ЯнаПлужник-я4э]

Thank you for the great explanation!

[@RyanKingArt]

welcome!

[@madjidbouharis729]

I was wondering why my substance painter height map was acting weird and now I knew that it was related to the Uv"s coordinates on the displace modifier... thank you soo much mate this helped a lot .

[@RyanKingArt]

Thanks for watching!

[@ehsankeramati]

I have using Blender version 3.2.2 and my subdivision surface modifier just have 2 option that is Level View and Render. but in some videos like yours it has so many options which i dont have !Also in Rendr Propertice i cant see Feature Set and and Device. Please help me.

[@RyanKingArt]

Hmm, are you using Blender Eevee? the displacement modifier works in eevee, but the other types of displacements only work in Cycles. Also, are you using an old version of Blender?

[@ehsankeramati]

@@RyanKingArt Thank you so much for your response. I changed Eevee to Cycle and then Render setting fixed but the main problem is my subdivision modifier. i have been using Blender version 3.2.2 and its has just two button Catmull-Clark and Simple and 2 input number Level View and Render. It has nothing else except these. but in your videos or some other people your subdivision modifier has more option !!! Should I active them from other place ?

[@o.kiryukhin]

​@@ehsankeramati more options appear when experimental render mode is on​

[@blenderstuffs]

Very helpful tutorial

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad it was helpful. : )

[@kgkreshnan]

Agreed.. really helpful

[@jakditstudio]

Thanks dude 🙏🏻🔥✊🏻

[@RyanKingArt]

Most welcome! Thanks for watching. : )

[@jakditstudio]

@@RyanKingArt oh yes, your welcome too

[@Mariaokladnikova]

Thank you so much! All your videos are extremely helpful!!

[@RyanKingArt]

You're welcome!

[@katarat-online5578]

Thank you I've been struggling to find that specific matter. I really appreciate what u did there👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

[@cpincpersonal]

Thanks man! Very helpful.

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad it helped! Thanks for watching.

[@gerdsfargen6687]

Which technique do you prefer Ryan? The displacement node or the texture ?

[@RyanKingArt]

I prefer the displacement node, and using the adaptive sampling.

[@gerdsfargen6687]

@@RyanKingArt Nice! Yeah I liked that..had some strange issue though. Created a Spec, Displacement and Normal Map node from an online tool...an old one called Normal Map Online...based on a simple jpg of a wood. Though when I added the image as the base color node, it wouldnt recognise it. Is that due to the naming convention not matching that of the above displacement maps? I didnt use a PBR pack ...just made my own.

[@RyanKingArt]

Hmm, I'm not sure. Could be the name, but if you manually added in the texture, then it should work fine.

[@enjoyenjoy5721]

Subscribed! great tutorials.

[@RyanKingArt]

Thanks for the sub! I appreciate it. 😃

[@dathink8374]

I can come back with Blender, because of you, I start 2 years ago but feel tired to learn, that's why I stop until now when Vietnam was under situation because Covid so I start again and found your channel, thanks so much for those videos you did

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad my videos are helpful! Thank you for watching.

[@cg.man_aka_kevin]

This is in Cycles. But how in Eevee? Can you make a new method? Using displacement modifier?

[@RyanKingArt]

Yeah, if you want to do this in Eevee, use the method where you use the displace modifier. The node editor displacements don't work in Eevee.

[@cg.man_aka_kevin]

@@RyanKingArt I hope in the future, Eevee can beat Cycles because it's just as realistic, and just beat the render engine from Unreal Engine 5. :)

[@geoffhodgson2492]

Thanks Ryan. Great tutorial and easy to follow.

[@RyanKingArt]

glad you liked it!

[@Ponlets]

when i do this the extra bits jut out at odd angles or to one side with no obvious way to clear it up

[@dmauleon]

Thank you so much!!!!! Super useful video!!! 👌

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad it was helpful!

[@orplecgstudio-aliaksandrts3034]

Great Tutoral as always ! YOU are the STAR ! 🙂 can i ask you to help to make it in Blender 4.1 ? SUbdibision surface modifier don't have adaptive subdivision option. So not sure how to make it. Thank you so much !

[@massmedia5462]

Many Thanks! first method worked epic... second method... no matter what, maps will not align... but that is OK because method 1 is waaaaay more detailed and controllable! 👍👍

[@RyanKingArt]

Thanks for watching!

[@achis2928]

great tutorial, thanks

[@RyanKingArt]

You're welcome!

[@robinhess543]

thank you! Second way is very nice and work for me well!!!

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks for watching 👍‍

[@NN-wc7dl]

Very helpful!

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad it was helpful!

[@markblignaut3166]

HIya, thank you so much for the tutorials, really appreciate them. I was wondering if you could help with a problem I am having. When I have an object and the scale is not applied, I add the displace modifier and everything works just dandy, but if the scale is applied before the modifier sometimes nothing happens or you can hardly seen the displacement. What am I doing wrong? Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you

[@Benjamin-vx2ot]

just great content!

[@seanposkea]

Do you have something on how to get rid of stepping (aliasing?) Even using 4K 16bit maps in cycles my displacement looks like something out of the Lego Movie.

[@RyanKingArt]

Hmm, no sorry. I have not had that problem before. One thing that you could do, is open the displacement map in a 2d program, and blur it a little. That might smooth it out.

[@seanposkea]

@@RyanKingArt No, I think its a blender thing. I'm using 4k materials from places like PloyHaven. Cranking up the normal strength often helps but not always.

[@seanposkea]

Hmmm... Well, saving as 32bit with a little Add Noise in PS did a pretty good job but requires a 64mb image! I did a .5 gaussian and tweaked the contrast a bit and saved as a 16bit and that was only a 5mb image. The result is a little grainy (from the noise) and you can still kind of see the banding but it not Minecraft anymore as long as you keep the Displacement scale less than .5 I tried taking the original 72dpi image and converting and shrinking to 300 and then blurring and saving as 32bit and that looked best (but again a huge file) You can still see it but it lets you push the displacement scale higher before the steps show up. I tried 4 subs on the original mesh before the sub-d mod (6 lvs) and that smoothed out the banding but made even my 3090 chug. So I don't know my dubious opinions of displacement in blender is unchanged.

[@RyanKingArt]

@@seanposkea Ok.

[@dilipvfx]

Its Very helpful , Thank you so much.

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Enflict]

When I select my picture in the Node Wrangler it tells me no matching images found, and it doesn't create the nodes. Can you tell me what I am missing?

[@RyanKingArt]

Hmm, I think that's because the image textures are not named correctly.

[@giuseppemarinelli8277]

Simple and useful.

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad you liked it!

[@joseevangelista2966]

Very GOOD thanks!!

[@RyanKingArt]

Thank you for watching. : )

[@msouag]

How do you make this plan extend and follow a Bezier curve?

[@varunverma95]

Very helpful. Thank you 👍🏻❤️

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad it was helpful!

[@xxsmoothiesxx1996]

Stamp 8:45 13:50 15:08

[@RyanKingArt]

👍‍

[@WaldemarB-wj1nq]

Thank you for tutorial

[@RyanKingArt]

You're welcome!

[@MrMini500]

how would i apply it so i can edit and sculpt it afterwards? currently have no textures other than the map for the displacement

[@evanalexan]

Is it possible to create Displacement Maps from photos of a single object? If I can control the lighting and I'm the one taking the photos? I've seen some tutorials on creating Normal Maps by lighting an object from four (4x) different angles and then combining those 4 photos into a single Normal Map. But is there a similar process for Displacement maps? I have a ton of things I need to photograph and model, and painting the displacement in ZBrush for every single thing doesn't seem feasible.

[@RyanKingArt]

Thanks @Keiwah Yeah displacement maps use values from black to white, so yes, you could make a displacement map from an image, or texture.

[@sykir14]

useful tutorial thank you so much!!!

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad it was helpful!

[@night_gryphon]

Please can you make a tutorial how to bake real geometry to displacement map? Im totally stuck trying to bake geometry which have elements both below and above low poly face. If i move objects to align specific face other faces go out of alignment ant get wrong displacement map

[@kaludgo5811]

thank you. Great tutorial as usual

[@RyanKingArt]

Thanks for watching : )

[@rogierlist5769]

great tuts but when i render it looks like rubish...in the viewport everthing works but then i push f12 and the displacemant looks awfull...what am i doing wrong?

[@RyanKingArt]

Maybe you need to turn the detail amount up on the subsurf modifier. Are you using the adaptive displacement? Or what method are you using for the displacement?

[@Vishwakarma3d]

Ryan do you know about Jsplacement? tiny program to generate all sorts of scifi displacement maps? (panels, circuits, dotgrids, linegrids. If you dont know about it let me know i got the link to it. is not super easy to find

[@victorhugolopezrivas2826]

Thanks a lot!

[@RyanKingArt]

You're welcome!

[@DarthJeremy364]

AMAZING!

[@RyanKingArt]

Thank you. 😀

[@utkugogus268]

Thank you so much! :)

[@RyanKingArt]

You're welcome!

[@ignacioalvarado1384]

thank you very much, this tutorial is great. instasubscribed

[@RyanKingArt]

Thank you very much!

[@idiaz502]

VERY NICE!!

[@RyanKingArt]

Thanks!

[@navisidhu5872]

Is height nd displacement texture same bro

[@llYuki0okami]

if we change texture in nodes like change scale, when this second displacement option doesnt fit

[@RyanKingArt]

What part are you in the video? And what displacement method are you using? Displacement node? Or displacement modifier?

[@llYuki0okami]

@@RyanKingArt add texture by the node classic way, change scale and/or rotation in nodes, and then use displacement modifier

[@RyanKingArt]

Did you change the coordinates on the displace modifier to UV? Then you can scale the UV mapping to scale both the textures and Displacement.

[@basspig]

I can't get displacement to work in 3.1.2. And there's no 'adaptive subdivision' option in the subdivision modifier on 3.1.2. Feature seems to be broken on the latest release.

[@RyanKingArt]

You need to make sure you turn on Experimental mode if you want to use the adaptive subdivision.

[@RyanKingArt]

Also make sure your in cycles render.

[@buda3d2007]

Is this still working in 3.6? as I cannot see displacement and bump only, please help

[@RyanKingArt]

make sure your using the cycles rendering engine to access that setting.

[@relaxpinknoise]

how come i don't see the displacement tab on material properties??

[@RyanKingArt]

Probably because your in Blender Eevee. Switch to the cycles render engine if you want to use the node editor displacements.

[@relaxpinknoise]

@@RyanKingArt tks

[@relaxpinknoise]

​@@RyanKingArt but still sfter i switch, i don't see the "true option" on surface displacements

[@blendert7590]

@@relaxpinknoise In the older versions it was 'True', but it's changed to 'Displacement' in the new versions.

[@MikeCompileon]

Your contents are savior to me, great lesson. I was wondering if this can work for character

[@RyanKingArt]

Thanks! Yeah, I think it would work on a character.

[@kyakh5584]

Try to change the normal values for the ones who are facing prpblems in changing depth of the texture.

[@leax1337]

Thank you very much, i come from maya and i had problems with Blender Displacement in Maya all works as you expect and very good, but in Blender something went wrong for me. :)

[@RyanKingArt]

Thanks for watching.

[@thomasg5593]

very good tutorial! I wanted to know if it's possible to apply the displacement map into the model for it to appear in sculpt mode (i want to use the displacement map as a base that a tweak after) ? Thanks

[@ortizgab]

Man, thanks for all teachings! 1 thing, is there a way to apply this displacement and tilling correction to export to UE and convert to nanite?

[@RyanKingArt]

If you use the method in this tutorial where I use the displace modifier, you can apply the displace modifier, and then it should work in a game engine. Because if you apply the modifier, then the mesh will be that shape.

[@ortizgab]

@@RyanKingArt thanx!!!

[@jasonwilliams8730]

Love it!

[@RyanKingArt]

Thanks Jason. 🙂

[@Naor_Scale_Models]

what can be the reason that I dont get aoutomaticlly map?

[@parthkapadia148]

When i select subdivision modifire my place became pyramid, and then i chose subd to smiple it is still pyramid...... i dont know why and how ?

[@RyanKingArt]

Sorry, its hard to know what the problem is when I can't see it,

[@meancrank9039]

How do I convert images in shader to the displacement? I want to animate the displacement of one texture multiplied over another in Eevee, but I just can't figure it out.

[@RyanKingArt]

I don't understand what you mean.

[@meancrank9039]

@@RyanKingArt Can I use image textures in a shader for displacement in eevee?

[@RyanKingArt]

@@meancrank9039 No, not in the shader nodes. The displacements in the node editor doesn't work in Eevee. You can however use the displacement modifier in Eevee.

[@stonelambert]

If it just doesn't seem to work at all it maybe because you moved or transformed or rotated or scaled your object prior to adding displacement modifiers or shader/ texture. Ctrl A "apply all transforms"

[@Catastroish]

Great work, really. Thank you. One thing, why walking through the additional steps (Shift+A -> texture -> image texture -> select image) when you can just drag the image directly into blender? :)

[@RyanKingArt]

Yes, both ways work. 👍‍

[@hoto5010]

Thanks, your videos are always helpful

[@RyanKingArt]

Thanks!

[@geoffreywilliams663]

I'm not a Blender expert or even a basic user, but want to add texture to an STL created elsewhere, I followed your instruction, second method. That seemed similar to other videos, but your instructions on where to find the commands in different menu's was very clear to follow. However, got to the end and I couldn't see my texture in the UV map windows. What have I missed ?

[@hayobayo5260]

This really helped me on a problem regarding a tilled floor. Thank you! I have one question regarding the rendering of a sequence of images close up (using the first adaptive setup): Will the mesh "adjust" the quality -just like pressing dopple tab- with every step the camera makes? Or do you apply the modifier first? To those areas of rendering and texture Im not accustomed and quite a newbie. Thank you

[@RyanKingArt]

Yes, if your using adaptive displacement, it will always update, depending on where the camera is located. So it should always look high quality when rendered. Thanks for watching!

[@hayobayo5260]

@@RyanKingArt That is nice to know. Thank you for answering.

[@rajhaldua7061]

Thanks 👍👍👍👍

[@RyanKingArt]

You're Welcome 👍

[@Dive_Me_Crazy]

Thanks for this - really useful. Have there been any significant changes in Blender 3.2?

[@RyanKingArt]

Thanks for watching! Not that I know of. I think the settings are all the same.

[@Dive_Me_Crazy]

@@RyanKingArt Thanks. One tutorial that might be useful is putting "end grain" onto displacement wooden Planks - I am trying to do that at the moment.

[@martynholland7508]

Hey Ryan, great tutorial. General question re displacement...I'm trying to scatter objects onto a heavily displaced surface, however the scatter only recognises the flat surface not the displaced height. Any suggestions?

[@RyanKingArt]

hmm I'm not sure how to fix that. If your using the displacement modifier, you could apply the modifier.

[@evanyung5770]

I dont have the option for adaptive subdivision

[@galazanugrah5900]

my adaptive subdivision checkbox doesn't show up

[@RyanKingArt]

make sure your using Cycles render, and make sure you turned on the experimental mode. I go over those settings in the tutorial.

[@joshowen4370]

Thanks, Ryan. Is this method useful for game assets or is there a more performance friendly method?

[@RyanKingArt]

Hmm, I'm not sure exactly, as I don't actually make games.

[@mustafamalik3843]

Amazing

[@RyanKingArt]

Thanks!

[@antoransar6975]

thank you sir

[@RyanKingArt]

Welcome! Thanks for watching.

[@ultranova3315]

Awesome 👏🏽

[@RyanKingArt]

Thank you!

[@waltage]

i have no adaptive subdiv in 2.92 and 2.93

[@RyanKingArt]

Hmm, make sure you change Blender to Experimental mode.

[@RyanKingArt]

Also make sure you are using Cycles Render.

[@waltage]

@@RyanKingArt oh. shit. THANK YOU!

[@radagasttw]

Great!

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks!

[@radagasttw]

@@RyanKingArt I did your tutorial and I'm hallucinating with this. Thank you for explaining in such a masterful way. I take the opportunity to ask a question, friend, if I use Bake Normal or Combined on a mesh with Displacement, do I get the texture of the image of this new generated object? Greetings from Venezuela

[@mat5844]

with blender 4.2 i can't seem to get any displacement >_