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# 1 15-11-2012 , 02:50 PM

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Is it possible when converting displacement to polygons, keeping all the geo in quads rather then triangles when using displacement on a plane?

Last edited by dustykhan; 15-11-2012 at 04:47 PM.

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# 2 15-11-2012 , 05:12 PM

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https://www.hajimenakamura.com/hajime...isplaceD.shtml for Maya 6.5-2012.
https://www.braverabbit.de/playground/?p=837 for Maya 2012/2013.

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# 3 15-11-2012 , 10:55 PM

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Thanks for the links NextDesign,
Unfortunately I am running Maya2013 on linux and neither of those work user added image

I changed the .bundle of iDisplace to a .so, and also updated the mel file to read the .so, but I get the error:
// Error: line 1: /home/dustykhan/maya/2013-x64/plug-ins/iDisplace.so: invalid ELF header (iDisplace)

When trying to run it from the script editor I get:
// Error: file: /home/dustykhan/maya/2013-x64/scripts/iDisplace.mel line 38: Unable to create/find dependency node.

Is there a way to compile/fix this for linux, or any other plugins that work, you know of?

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