Tutorial | Displacement with Octane Materials in Cinema 4D

Learn how to set up displacement with our materials and Octane.
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In this tutorial Nick Campbell shows you how to set up displacement with Octane materials. In just a few simple steps you’ll see how materials with displacement textures can change the topography of your 3D model and bring added depth into your render.
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[@MotionPunk]

Nice collection! One note here about octane: if you use vertex displacement you should turn autobump on and subdivide via the material you do not need the tag. And if an object has uvs, use texture displacement as it is way lighter and not dependant on poly count. Cheers!

[@twitchy_pixel]

Yeah I was wondering about this… wonder why they’ve used the object tag to subdivide the mesh?

[@3rdDim3nsn3D]

I was also wondering why he used vertex displacement i literally use almost everytime the texture displacement and it looks as i expect it to look.... but ill maybe have to try vertex displacement more often to see a difference. Thanks anyway nick! Great mats tho!

[@MotionPunk]

​@@3rdDim3nsn3D you should not use vertex displacement unless you have noises or lack of uvs. This one is heavy, subdivides the objects literally. Texture displacement is the one you should use 99% of the times as it can be used even on a single polygon.

[@3rdDim3nsn3D]

@@MotionPunk yeah thats the reason i use tex disp almost all the time. Thank you for your tip man, i really appreciate it!

[@theKingsAmbassadors]

Great stuff and thank you for the great work. I have a noob How can one add a text embossment to that object with displacement?

[@ArgoBeats]

Man, I've GSGPlus and I didn't even know about these materials, thank you Nick!

[@madlowles]

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[@jaevnstroem]

Beautiful new collection! One thing about this specific setup tho, I don't think vertex displacement supports motion blur in octane (At least this was the case the last time I needed it)

[@AlexanderGarcia-jf3oh]

I dont understand with octane, why do they force you to turn on vector displacement? makes your files 10x bigger and impossible to work on

[@Gromic2k]

Nice, if only i had a usecase for that in my work

[@Greyscalegorilla]

It's here when you need it.

[@BongbokCG]

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