need help in displacement mapping

Hello,

I need help in displacement mapping. My teacher wants us to take a unfurred animal and put fur on it. I have tried to follow the tutorial she gave us but involves text not objects.

Please help

Kristy

ok, what have you tried so far. what works? what doesn't work?

chris

I have tried to take the animals out of the original picture. One being the displacement and the other being the furless animal. I changed the color to be a true black and white on the one with the fur and added an other channel and added the gaussian blur to it like the tutorial said to, then I and saved it. Then I tried to on the one animal I am trying to add the fur to put the animal on a different layer, which turns out I did, but when i displace the animal it doesn't change to the color of fur. Should I rasterize it like it says to do to text. That's the problem I am having is the tutorial speaks of text, but not of objects and other tutorials I have looked up don't even mention my delema.
Thanks for your help
Kristy

sounds like you're on the right track, just not entirely clear what's happening. the displacement map isn't going to change the color of your image, it's going to create a sort of bump map based on the black and white places on your displacement image. the displacement image should actually be grayscale if the tutorial doesn't mention that.

i'd say if you're getting the texture you want with the displacement map then just create another layer and color the fur there. hope that helps.

chris

Thank You Chris!!
Mission accomplished

Kristy