I’m wondering if there is any way in rhino of doing a reverse heightfield - ie taking a 3d surface and exporting it as a 2d bitmap heightfield. I’d like to model some textures using rhino that I can then export as bump or displacement maps that I can then use in other software. anyone have any ide…

Generating 2D bump/displacement maps from 3d geometry

Jonathan_Hutchinson1 (Jonathan) July 23, 2020, 9:05am 3

There’s also a good plugin someone made here which improves the functionality.

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