joewdavies/geoblender

Can't get adaptive subdivision to work

MoritzStefaner opened this issue · 6 comments

MoritzStefaner commented

Hi,

thanks for the great tutorial!
I got everything to work, but my renders still look pretty "flat" — see attached sample render:
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I think the adaptive subdivision has no effect. Any ideas?

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joewdavies commented

Hmm..

Does increasing the scale value in the displacement node have any effect?

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If not, you could share the .blend file and I could take a look

MoritzStefaner commented

Nope, no change as far as I can tell… The main difference to your setup is that my elevation file was 12000px x 12000px, so maybe that causes some scaling issues.

Attaching the blender file — thanks for your help!

3d alps.blend.zip

joewdavies commented

I think I found the issue!

With the plane selected, go into material properties > settings > surface and under displacement select 'displacement and bump'

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I must have missed this step in my tutorial!

Let me know if that does the trick,

thanks for helping me improve it :)

MoritzStefaner commented

Yes, that's it! 😍
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joewdavies commented

Noice!

P.S. If you want to prevent coastal areas from looking 'flooded' you can follow the extra step in the tutorial by creating a mask using polygons for France and Italy (if you don't have them you can use natural earth data - in QGIS select France and Italy then export > save selected features)

All the best,
Joe

MoritzStefaner commented