Displacement Spikes Frustrations

CreativeSheep

Anyone experience spikes in their displacement; especially around areas where there it is tight, similar to a lip of a can, or bottle ?

In the following image; you'll see there are bright areas, white spots, those bright areas \ white spots are the areas causing me grief when rendering with displacements, would simply painting them out work, anyone know of any technique or is it simple, as mentioned, painting them out ?

I want to do it precisely as to not effect the other areas, if precise is even possible ?

EarthQuake

What are you baking the displacement map in? In xnormal, you can adjust the range for displacement maps to combat this issue.

CreativeSheep

Mudbox.

JedTheKrampus

Is baking a vector displacement map an option instead? They tend to work a lot better on tight edges than scalar displacement maps IMO.

CreativeSheep

I don't have the original scene anymore so it's not an option I still prefer to work with scalar displacements because you can alter then in paint programs, vector you can't, unless there is some magical vector paint program I'm unaware off that may help for future ?

Those spikes are annoying when rendering.