CE3 POM Help.

R00 · Jun 2012

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 · Jun 2012

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 · Jun 2012

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 · Jun 2012

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

e-freak · Jun 2012

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 · Jul 2012

Cheers Guys!

CE3 POM Help.

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