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Subject: Re: [AE] help with displacement
From: Chris Zwar <chris@chriszwar.com>
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Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 07:02:42 +1000
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Hi,

It sounds like the problem is not the displacement - Free=46rom can =
handle this - but the fact you need the lighting and shading to go along =
with the distortion.

This is actually the problem we faced when doing the building =
projections for Melbourne (see my earlier post).  We used a combination =
of FreeForm to do the distortion, and the plugin Z-Born Toy to get the =
lights and shadows.  Both plugins used the same displacement map, and =
the result worked well.

Z-Born toy is not free, but you can download the demo to see if it works =
for you.  You will definitely need to read the help files though!
http://www.frischluft.com/zborntoy/index.php

Normality is a free plugin that does some similar things, but last time =
I checked it didn't generate shadows from light sources.  But it is =
free, and again it might help you out:
http://www.3dcg.net/software/normality/

Otherwise you could try experimenting with the CC Glass plugin, which =
comes with After Effects, and is OK for simple bump maps.

Cheers,


-Chris

On 04/04/2012, at 5:20 AM, sus wrote:

> I need to deform a surface with texture which is within moving video.  =
The deformation needs to look like memory foam and needs to be based on =
text and/or illustrations (as if a title has been pushed into foam and =
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> I made a displacement map for the text and have tried mesh warp,  =
displacement map, path distort and DE_FreeForm but none of the results =
look like believable 3d z displacement. The pixels look like they are =
displaced in x and y, but they do not look they move or are shaded in z.
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> Any suggestions for either a specific technique or plugin?
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> Cheers
> S
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