Hardware Displacement Menu Settings

Controls Tab

Channel box

Select a colour channel to calculate the displacement map.

Softness X field

Displays the amount of X-axis blur applied to the map. Editable.

Softness Y field

Displays the amount of Y-axis blur applied to the map. Editable.

Displace Direction box

Select the direction in which a displace occurs when a displacement map is attached to a surface. Geometries parented to a displacement map always use Normal Displace as the direction.

Select:	To Displace:
Flat Displace	In the X, Y, and Z directions.
Normal Displace	Bilinear and bicubic surfaces according to their normals.
Camera Displace	In the direction of the camera selected in the Displace Camera box.

Bias field

Displays the distance between the real surface of the object and the perceptual ground (zero level) of the texture. Editable.

Attenuate field

Displays the level of amplitude of the effect caused by the displacement map texture. Editable.

Displace Camera box

Active only when Camera Displace is selected in the Displace Direction box. Select which camera to take into account when using camera displacement.

Displace Camera field

Displays the active displace camera number. Non-editable.

Displacement X field

Displays the amount of displacement in pixel units along the X axis. Editable.

Displacement Y field

Displays the amount of displacement in pixel units along the Y axis. Editable.

Displacement Z field

Displays the amount of displacement in pixel units along the Z axis. Editable.

Bump Normals button

Enable to allow the map to create a normal map for enhanced lighting effects. Used only if no normal map exists for the object using the displacement texture. The availability of this setting is dependant on your graphics card.

Depth field

Displays the amount of Z scale applied to the generated normals. Higher values attenuate the effect toward the normals of the parent surface. Editable.

Texture Tab

Repeat mode box

Select how the map pattern is repeated on the surface.

Fit Method box

Select a fit method option to be applied to the map.

Keep Aspect button

Enable to preserve the aspect ratio of non-square pixels (not available for the Fill fit method).

Use Cropped Size button

Enable to replace the map with the cropped size of the media. Disable to use the cropped media as is.

Mapping box

Select the type of texture mapping.

Camera box

Specify which camera's FOV to take into account when using perspective mapping.

Camera field

Displays the active perspective camera number.

Filter box

Select the type of filtering to apply to the map.

Camera Type box

Select the camera type visibility for the map.