Baking displacement maps into the normals

jackanimated

Hi all,

So I am baking normal maps for the first time which is all going well, but I want to bake the displacement maps on my hi poly with the other hi poly information.

Is there a way to either apply the displacement geometry to the models, or to include them in the normal bake?

oglu

if you are using maya you could use the texture deformer...
or use mudbox to displace your model...

oglu

but why do you have a dispmap and no highres..?
if the dispmap is just painted you could use ddo to convert it into a normal...
think knald is also able to do that...

cupsster

@jackanimated: you can use xNormal > Tools > Height map to normal map

sprunghunt

You could also apply the displacement map in zbrush and bake from that model

you can also use substance designers 'height to normal' node

just in case you didn't want to use any of the other methods...