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Displacement Map

A grayscale texture that stores height information, projected onto a highly-tesselated mesh in order to create displaced surface detail. Also called a Height Map.

[[attachment:displacement_zbrush_beta.jpg|Media:DisplacementMap/attachments/displacement_zbrush_beta.jpg

Displacement maps are usually saved in a floating-point file format like 16- or 32-bit TIFF or EXR, because standard 8-bit grayscale images only have 256 levels of gray which often causes height information to be lost.


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