{"id":327,"date":"2015-02-24T00:40:06","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T13:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greole.com\/blog\/?p=327"},"modified":"2015-02-24T00:40:06","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T13:40:06","slug":"step-three-of-new-image-displacement-and-specular-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/02\/24\/step-three-of-new-image-displacement-and-specular-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Step Three of new image: Displacement and specular maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/0b26a13.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-16\" src=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/0b26a13.jpg\" alt=\"0b26a13\" width=\"143\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/0b26a13.jpg 200w, https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/0b26a13-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 143px) 100vw, 143px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Time to give my textures a little depth. Again I would like to thank those of you who have given me advice on my journey into this world. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>If you have read my previous articles you will have seen that I created the following texture from a photo of my bathroom floor:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/4.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-319 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/4.jpg\" alt=\"4\" width=\"329\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/4.jpg 1314w, https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/4-300x295.jpg 300w, https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/4-1024x1005.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/4-768x754.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 329px) 100vw, 329px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then I slapped it down onto the floor of my scene, much like gluing a colour photocopy of it onto a real floor. The result (when rendered in DAZ Studio) is this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/flat.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-328 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/flat.jpg\" alt=\"flat\" width=\"800\" height=\"699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/flat.jpg 800w, https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/flat-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/flat-768x671.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hope its obvious from this picture that there is no depth to the texture. But I want my viewers to feel a sense the grout, of the slight rise and fall of tiles. Hence I need something that can do this. Obviously bump maps (mentioned previously) are one way. Another superior way is displacement maps. I won&#8217;t go into the theory of them as there is heaps of that on the web for you to enjoy. Instead let&#8217;s just make some.<\/p>\n<p>NOTE: I used the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time to give my textures a little depth. 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