Best XSI shader to date.

dur23

Mostly because i had no idea it was possible but "benr" never does cease to amaze me.

http://www.xsibase.com/forum/index.php?board=29;action=display;threadid=28834

The power of normal map displacment:

ps: not my work.

Mongrelman

Ooooo, that's eeeenteresting. May have to have a bash at this in the future.

MoP

That's pretty crazy stuff. Interesting indeed!

fmnoor

That's pretty neat. I think Pixar Renderman does it too (for Maya).

killingpeople

i dont get it...

Mongrelman

Basically, instead of just pushing up and down like a regular displacement map, this pushes at an angle. So it's like using a normal map to control the direction of a displacement map, so it can push in/out at an angle, allowing for overlapping.
This image shows it better



Shows it better, as you can see how it's not just pushing geometry up and down, it's doing it in a direction, allowing such overlapping.

Jarrod1937

i see, that can lead to some very interesting stuff. thanks for showing.