Hey there, I have a problem using displacement map, I have a displacement map of earth, which I apply to a sphere and everything works fine aside from one thing after its baked/rendered, as you can see in the image the edges are sorta smered out, what I am after is a very sharp edge marking the land borders, instead of having this blending that occures. My subdivision on the sphere isnt all that high, it's 200, but if I chunk it up much higher the comp I have here cant handle the rendering. Is there anywhere in maya where you can set it to extrude the edges 90 degree outwards or w/e instead of using this sort of blending, or is this happening becuase of the subd being to low?

You probably need to mess with the refinement settings if the results are too soft.

Check both videos of this tutorial: http://cg-india.com/tutorials/maya_a..._workflow.html

He runs through the steps of setting up displacements in maya.

Thanks alot Ark,

For some reason my quicktime wont play the video properly, I cant dl it and the resolution is horrible I can barely see what hes doing :/ sorry, anyone who can pinpoint me to the settings to where you can tweak the effect of the displacement to give me the result im seeking.