and select an Elevation image also known as bump map or
displacement map
where you see white dots, the plane will be pushed upward
where you see black dots, the plane will not move
the height for black and white dots is given by the
"Level" settings
shown below.
values are in centimeters, so, white pixels push the plane 10
cm up
3b - Deselect unwanted materials
Only checkmarked materials will be affected by the morph.
This is a new feature of Rev. A !
4 - Click on the "Create
Elevation Image" button
there can be a rather long waiting time while the script
performs thousands of computations
In our example, a 32x32 division planes means there's 1024
vertices to process.
in one test, processing a 64x64 divisions plane ( 4096
vertices ) took 3 minutes
When computations are complete, you'll be able to close
the script using the "exit button"
5 - Go in daz studio's parameters tab
there's a new morph channel named Elevate !
turn it up to 100%
and there you have it, the Elevation map was transformed into
a morph
Note:
You can specify a name other than
Elevate for the Morph name
it's probably better to avoid using names already in use
You can also specify a channel name other than PBMCC_01.
but this feature is intended for "experts".
Creating pz2 files (for experts)
This is another new feature of Rev.A
it will create a simple injection file for the
selected node name and the morph channel you specified
i am not extremely familiar with pz2 files, so ...
you will possibly want to tweak this INJ file by hand later
here is another example of what can be achieved with
mcjElevateRevA
we select the skirt and we tell Daz Studio to show us the UV
maps
we set the mode to "View by Node"
and we get this, which we copy using "print
Screen" on a PC
then "Paste" in a paint program
here is the elevation map on the Diffuse Color channel of the
skirt's surface
