Displacement Bar

The Displacement Bar lets you create displacement assets that can be used to displace the surface of branches, caps, and fronds.

Managing displacement assets

Adding, removing, changing the name, reordering, and applying displacement assets to the tree is done the same way for all of the assets. This process is described in Common Asset Settings.

Settings

Filename

The image file used as the displacement source. Use the browse and reload buttons to change or reload the image.

Channel

The channel source of the displacement map. This can be set to grayscale, red, green, blue, or alpha.

Smoothing

The smoothing parameter will blur on the displacement map to remove high-frequency changes. Often, a blurry displacement will work much better than one with tiny details.

Brightness

This parameter lets you raise or lower the brightness of the whole displacement map, effectively adjusting the offset of the final displacement.

Contrast

This parameter lets you increase the separation between light and dark parts of the displacement map.

Normalize

Rescale the texture data so that it uses the entire black to white range.