2 Ways to Make Displacement Maps from Geometry in Houdini

Tim van Helsdingen demonstrates two ways that you can create displacement maps from geometry, with one using COPs.

While recording a tutorial on how to create displacement maps from geometry, Tim van Helsdingen had a conversation with his colleague, Arjan, from House of secrets about using COPs.

Why Use COPs?

When you create displacement maps from geo using COPs it opens up a lot of really cool functionality.

“This one turned out more interesting than I initially thought!” Helsdingen says. “I had recorded this with how I used to do it in the past, showed it to someone at work, and then he showed me another even cooler way to do it.” “So, I re-recorded the video to include both techniques.”

Check out the source files from the tutorial here.