Getting heightfid to warp around planet

[surrealdan]

Hi,

Trying to get some crater heightfields to wrap around the planet object. Since my my scene camera is pretty much locked, don't have much flexibility. When I try to translate beyond 10'000 meters it seems to float off into space. Is there a better way around this problem? Thanks for any help!

Best,
Daniel

[WAS]

See this discussion I recently had with Oshyan. Very informative on how people are wrapping planets. Though I was not able to get this to work properly and gave up, maybe someone can explain further here.

[Oshyan]

If the Displacement Direction (displacement tab) is "Normal" rather than "Vertical (normal in geometry)", it should work elsewhere on the planet, though note that the *bounding boxes* will not appear correct relative to the planet surface. But there comes a point of larger scales where using a heightfield rather than image projection makes less sense.

- Oshyan