Parallax mapping in 3dsmax/Mentalray

JordanW

Anyone know how to achieve a parallax mapping effect using 3dsmax's shaders, specifically for rendering with mental ray? Or a way to shift texture coordinates depending on camera angle.

Jesse Moody

i don't know about mental ray but I think one of the dx shaders (standard) has the ability. Don't know how good it is though.

Rob Galanakis

Can't do mental ray, but I have a real-time parallax occlusion (tartarchuk's, not the mediocre poliocarpo implementation) here:
http://www.robg3d.com/shaders.html#pom

JordanW

need the ability to render so no shaders, thanks for the suggestions though.

jbrophy

No answer to your needs but on a side note. Professor420 checked out your Uber shader, very cool. Is there anyway to do shadows in in the viewport? Max 2008 does viewport shadows now but I am not seeing them working with .fx shadders in there. Also anyway to add multiple lights to the Uber shader without too much bulk? Just curious, works very nice as is.

Thanks

Sage

There is the old fashion displacement mapping but that is probably not what you are after.

Alex

rube

is there a reason you don't want to use displacement maps.. or.. I believe the full version of mental mill will save out a mental ray shader from the network you create (at least that's the plan, not sure if they've gotten there yet) so you could try making your parallax shader in there and exporting it.. you can dl the beta fro mthe mental images site.

rube

JordanW

Gonna give that mental mill a go hopefully it will have a solution. Thanks for all the replies!

Eric Chadwick

Fabio Policarpo has a Max shader that works with scanline, Vray, finalRender, and Brazil. Not MR though.

http://fabio.policarpo.nom.br/downloads.htm#Relief

JordanW

This will work, thanks a ton Eric!