Tutorial | Creating and Using Relief Maker Reliefs in Blender Projects

this tutorial we're going to cover how you can use relief maker outputs in your blender projects here we are in relief maker and our objective is to get a relief of this Dragon into blender the first thing that we'll do is Orient the model in the correct orientation that we want for a project and then we may want the output width and height to be a little bit ramped up since this is for a CG application and we'll just press generate relief and we can see for our purposes that this is looking pretty good we might want the height scale be ramp up a little bit although it won't really matter because we can change the results of this height map inside of blender directly but that's looking pretty good so at this point we have a few options um we can export an obj and get that directly into blender keep in mind when you're exporting objs uh of this size or 4K by 4K you're you're going to have pretty big file sizes so you need to be somewhat conservative on how you manage this uh but another option that is perhaps more interesting is to use a height map and so that's what we'll show today we're going to go to file export relief and we're going to choose a 16bit height map and call it dragon now let's jump into blender okay here we are in blender and just to start our scene and you can incorporate this in all kinds of different ways we're going to show for just a basic plane we've gone into the plane and we've subdivided it a fair amount and you'll need to play with the amount of subdivision to get the results that you want and we may have overdone it a little bit here because there's other techniques like subdivision surfaces we can use later uh but for now we have a subdivided plane and we're going to go to the modifier Tab and select deform displace and we're going to add a new texture from that and it's kind of making things jump around for now but that's okay we're going to now need to Define what the texture is so let's go to the textures tab make sure we have texture O2 selected or whatever the displace modifier created we're going to open and we'll select the dragon output that we made earlier the default settings here make this look very distorted so we're going to go back to the displacement modifier settings and set the strength and you're going to probably want to strength more in the 0.12 uh range something like that so you can play with it and kind of figure out what makes the most sense for your project but in our case maybe 0.15 is going to give us the result results that we want now you can do all kinds of interesting things at this point uh maybe we'll do .1 8 we could apply the displacement modifier if we wanted to do that and we could perhaps add a subd make it look a little bit nicer and of course this is a real piece of geometry at this point right we've we've placed the grid that we made earlier and so now you can do all kinds of things you know we can go into sculpt mode and we could further refine some of this stuff if we wanted to add additional crease detail or any of the other kind of sculpting things that you could do in blender um so this is a really powerful tool set to do things that you might not have otherwise been able to do you know if you're making a Coliseum and this dragon's going to fight in the Coliseum uh and you want to have you know Stone representations of this dragon as if they were carved out uh and use real geometry for that this is kind of workflow that you could do to achieve something like that so lots of possibilities here most people in blender are used to using this workflow for things like terrain mapping but this really extends the possibility and creative potential of what you can achieve anyway we hope you enjoyed this tutorial it's pretty easy and we cannot wait to see what you make

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Length: 4min 33sec (273 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 15 2024