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2 Ways to Make Displacement Maps from Geometry in Houdini

By February 28, 2020No Comments

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.

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