Hello everyone, my first post, The forum looks great!

I was wondering if this was a version issue, or if I'm just doing something wrong. I was watching someone in a video tutorial demonstrate displacement mapping by applying a noise texture (any texture) by dragging it from the materials editor slot, directly onto a quad plain. This is not working for me, nothing happens when I increase the strength in the displace modifier, nor do I get the same prompt after dragging and drooping. note: I have no problem inserting a map directly into a displacement modifier and setting the strength values, but it would be nice to have the material parameters from the materials editor controlling the noise of the map as the author has done. I’ve done it exactly as he has to the best of my knowledge. This is v2010, but I’m not sure what version the instructor is using. In any case, when he drags his material to the plain, he is immediately prompted with an option to use the material as an instance, or copy, while I get no such options.

I've tried a few different ways to insert the map into the materiel editor: First from the maps displacement slot, and then from the defuse slot, in each case there was a displacement modifier in the modifier stick before hand as the instructor had.


By the way, this was the tutorial I was following:
[Link to www.vimeo.com]


Thank you
Mike

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