To prevent stair-stepping in CrazyBump displacement maps, just enable the setting "Save Displacement at 16-bit precision," on CrazyBump's preferences page. It now occurs to me that this feature should probably be more accessible, rather than buried on the prefs page. If y'all still notice stair-stepping with the 16-bit…
[FONT="] You'll run into this from time to time. I believe this could be attributed to a few things. Sometimes your diffuse has subtle (but noticeable by crazybump) variations in pixel tones. Try the following: 1. Before filtering through Crazybump, try slightly blurring the image in photoshop or manually by hand in…
[FONT="]I think the whole Shift + C and Ctrl + C idea does not really bother me all that much. It falls under memory. XSI has a unique default setup of positioning core modeling functions around the hand radially. Alt=S and around the left hand exists all necessary functions. After adaptation and familiarity is…