Displacement maps on xgen descriptions

[Anonymous]

Hi, I'm new to the forum.

I had a question I was wondering someone might have an answer for. I'm using xgen with Maya 2017 with Arnold and having issues with the materials. I'm using a displacement map on my xgen archive but am not able to get it to show up once applied to a description, even though it is working with the original geometry. I have a faint memory of this actually working with mental ray but I may be mistaken. Is there a way to make a displacement map on a material work on a xgen description with Arnold?

Thank you in advance for any help.

Phil

[Michael_Todd]

It's not advisable to have the original object that was exported as an archive in the same scene as the xgen description using those archive objects. This can cause the material bindings to the archive objects to get overridden.

[Michael_Todd]

one more:

[Anonymous]

Thank you for the reply Michael,

Those images look fantastic. I managed to get it working myself now as well. I was also just wondering can animated displacement maps work with xgen archives?

Phil