Painter: generators or smart materials using painter height layers

Altea · Apr 2015

When I apply a generator or smart material they typically use baked textures (curvature etc) to generate edge effects.
Is there any way to use a painted height layer to add to this effect? Currently they are ignored or at least I cannot see how to use them.

:poly115: Thanks

chrisradsby · Jan 2016

I want to bump this, because I'm wondering the exact same thing and I can't find any answers anywhere.

Froyok · Jan 2016

For the moment the process has to be done in two steps :
- create a project where you paint the height details and export them as a normal map
- in the final project, import the normal map in the additional map slot

We are aware that this is a tedious setup and we have plans to improve that.

Dvids · May 2019

Hey,

I know that this is an old post but I am wondering if this has changed since then?

Cheers

Jerc · May 2019

You can now use anchor points to reference layers where you painted height and normal data in mask generators:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9mLZQKxPSo

Painter: generators or smart materials using painter height layers

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