CE3 POM Help.

R00

So I've been using Parallax Occlusion Mapping (POM) in a scene i'm working on. I've modeled and baked out my maps and applied them to the grey box objects in CE3 and they come out fine. The problem I have is when I apply it to one of my own meshes.

It is the same grey box model from the Engine but I have merged two objects to one and remapped them to use the brick texture. I seem to be getting some horrific distortion which seems to move when the camera is moved.

Can anyone shed any light on this problem as it's driving me crazy :poly142:

kwshipman

did you merge the object in Max? It looks like the normals are all screwed up, a problem I've had in Max a few times when merging/welding. couple things I always do now is reset XForm (utilities tab > Reset XForm) and reset the normals (Edit Normals modifier, select all, click reset)

R00

Cheers dude!!!! I was doing that originally but forgot. For some reason I have to scale my model by 100 every time I'm back in CE3 so didn't use the Xform hence it was distorted

Brygelsmack

Use tessellation instead of POM, it's gonna help your silhouette and look much better.

e-freak

Well POM uses a hell lot less resources. Tessellation is something I'd use only if this is an offline environment (Screenshots/Flythroughs) or on Characters/Closeup Objects.

R00

Cheers Guys!