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In this tutorial you will learn how to set up a modeling rig on a sphere object, in order to make it look like a stone.

This technique delivers a very believable result and is absolutely non destructive. Once set up, you can easily modify the results, only by changing the mappingoffsets in the first "cellular" displacement map.

This video is only about the modeling rig, a later tutorial will cover the mapping an texturing for the highpoly, as also an approach to make this a game ready asset.

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  • Michał MMM 1 year ago
    great tutorial. Thank you. The only problem of mine is, that becouse of that 5 iteriations of TS, the model becomes very heavy.
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  • Sascha Henrichs 1 year ago
    you can alternatively only set the render iterations to a higher value for saving performance. then you will only get the real iterationsize, when rendering OR baking.
    however that is at the expense of visual realtime feedback
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  • SPY 1 year ago
    Nice and helpful tutorial. Big thank!
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  • Nik Nastev 1 year ago
    Very usefull, thanks!
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  • Oliver Milas 1 year ago
    very nice! Vielen Dank =D
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  • John Doe 1 year ago
    Great realism and great tutorial! Thank you!
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  • Tim Mehmet 1 year ago
    awesome tutorial thanks!
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  • logeshv 1 year ago
    very nice tutorial...I've been working to get some nice rocks in a while..your tutorial helped me a lot...thanks a lot
    Sascha Henrichs
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  • Raven_witty 1 year ago
    Great tutorial. Thank you! The only problem I have, is that I can't get my box to look like your stone. Have followed your directions to the core and I still can't get it right.
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  • Sascha Henrichs 1 year ago
    i would really help you raven, but you have to explain where exactly you are stuck..
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  • loboden 1 year ago
    Great tutorial. More useful.
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  • Antonio Hajden 1 year ago
    This is an awesome tut! I am very curious to find out how to turn this into a game ready asset.
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  • Timothée Billiet 1 year ago
    Hi!

    Great tutorial, but is there any way to get the same result as at 3:15 for a more cartoon style without so many polygons to deal with ?

    The main problem is that I need to import my rock in Maya, so I can't keep the Turbosmooth during the export and set it low in Maya...
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  • artrager 1 year ago
    A very understandable tutorial. This is just what I needed to learn. The results are very realistic. Thank you Sascha!
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  • Delan Tai 4 months ago
    sorry for the dumb question, but I made this huge rock I really like after playing around with a number of the values, and then realized that there is a vraydisplacementmod (and I happen to be rendering with vray). I've done some searches but cant seem to find much comparing the two (displace mod and vraydisplacementmod). Would I get better results using vray's displacement mod? I tried to test it out, but it was taking forever to render, and I think I would have to redo my rock to get acceptable results. Thanks for your time!
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  • Sascha Henrichs 4 months ago
    hi delan, unfortunately i cannot answer your question, since i never tried it with vray displacement method. i suggest you read the vray documentation to understand how the vray displace works. i think it will tesselate the mesh on its own algorithm and therefore will tesselate it forever if you make everything like i made it in the video. i wish you good luck. feel free to share your knowledge here if you got a solution!
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  • Delan Tai 4 months ago
    Alright, thanks for the quick reply Sascha! Yeah, from the documentation it seems like they are rather different mechanisms, I'll let you guys know if I find anything.

    Edit: Oh! I forgot the most important thing! Thanks for the great tutorial Sascha, I'm really happy with my rock :)
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  • Benoît Blancquaert 1 month ago
    Thanks !
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  • pavan319 3 weeks ago
    although i haven't got the same output as yours the tut is really helpful, Thanks
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