man.....i love it. i realy like to work with displacement and your plug did just the thing i miss the most....preview of the surface in the working area.it is so simple and works greate.
thanks
ahope to see more of your creative work.

Very useful in all sorts of situations - cheap, quick and very integrated in the DAG.

I had at first had some troubles with this plug-in. The plugin is wonderful and does just as it advertises. The problems I ran into may deal with how deeply I dig into Maya.

This Plugin is doing a really good job - much better than Maya's "Heightfield" Node. This should go into Maya by default ;).

omg, best deformer for maya i ever seen, any plans for Maya2009 64bit ?

Yes I agree with others, its great plugin, please recompile it for maya 2009 best 64bit.. and once more THX for it

Amazing! Thank You!

Awesome!
Thanks!!!

Its so good...I really very much want to use it at work, but cant unless the source code is posted to insure future compatibilty with our projects and Maya versions, any chance of posting the code?

tried to load the plugin for 2008 and said it was compiled w/ a newer version of maya. anyone else have this problem?
really want to try this plugin out.
thanks.

How do you install it?

thank you, this is what it should be long time ago.

Same problem as Casey33 here

// Error: line 1: Plug-in, "DisplaceD" was compiled against a newer version of the Maya API and is incompatible with the current Maya version. (DisplaceD) //

Maybe it's because i'm running a 2008 32 bits maya version on a windows xp 64 bits ?
Anyone has an idea ?

Could you check below please.

-If you use 32bit Maya, you have to use 32bit plug-in even you are using 64bit windows.

-You have to use Maya2008 ext2.

i use maya 2010 how can i install the displaceD, its shows cannot find procedure displaceDCreature UI, please help me

Hi Hajime,
First: A great thank you for providing the world with this awesome plugin!

Well I also have a problem installing (win Vista 64 bit, Maya 2010 64bit)

its shows cannot find procedure displaceDCreature UI

Please help me.

Best regards
Lars

im using a 32 bit windows7 machine with maya 2008 loaded, i tried loading displaced 2008 for win32. it gives me this error

// Error: Plug-in, "DisplaceD" was compiled against a newer version of the Maya API and is incompatible with the current Maya version. (DisplaceD)

Anyone having the same error ? need help.

Hi there,

yea im getting this error

// Error: Plug-in, "DisplaceD" was compiled against a newer version of the Maya API and is incompatible with the current Maya version. (DisplaceD)

Im running winXP x64 with Maya 2008 x64 with the Maya 2008 x64 DisplaceD plugin.

Way confused

DisplaceD is compiled against 2008 "ext2".
Please make sure if your Maya2008 is up to date. Without update, it won't work.

Excuse me , did anyone solve the problem with the "Cannot find procedure displaceDCreateUI" shown? I am using maya2009 32bit , maya just keep showing this problem,and in the creat deformer menu , I can't find the "dilplaceD" command. Please help me out .

were i should put .mel files

I'm trying to install this plugin on an intel mac and having troulbe finding where to put the .bundle file and the .mel scripts. Can't seem to find the scripts folder and no idea where to put the .bundle. Thanks for any help.

Nicely done, saved me a lot of time. I agree it should be standard in Maya.

Has anyone solved the problem with the "displaceD Creature UI" thing?

>Has anyone solved the problem with the "displaceD Creature UI" thing?

It will be happen if you are not install .mel scripts in zip file.

Cheers

One of the best plugins

// Error: Object's name is not unique: displaceD_MenuItem1. //

Does anyone know what this means?

Very nice work, thanks a lot

hey
first of all, thanks for the great plugin,
is there any chance that you share the source? because i think sharing the source will be a very nice way to help people learn how to develop new deformers within API.
thanks

Big thanks for 2011 version, works great!

thanks for update

I would like to instal this onto my mac running Maya 2011, but all I have is a .bundle file. Can't locate the .mll for the plug-in folder in this download. Please help.

*Update* No worries, figured it out. =) All works! Thanks.

Great work, flexible and fast. Definitely one of my most used plugins.

There is one problem I have with it from time to time and that is that it does not update sometimes when using animated textures. Here's my setup in 2011 OSX:

Ramp > color gain of a File Texture > Projection > DisplaceD

It shows up in the viewport and will update when you change the value of the ramp and/or texture. But if I animate it over time and scrub through the timeline or playblast, displaceD does not update. It will only update when I go to a specific frame.

A different setup that wasn't working in the past I've gotten to work by adding a ramp node in between like this. File Texture > Ramp > DisplaceD

I need to use a projection and am not having any luck, any ideas anyone?

EDIT: Thanks to the speedy response by the community I've figured it out on my own. DisplaceD does not like a projection going directly into it if things feeding that projection are animated. Gotta re-arrange and use other combination of nodes to get the same result.

It is a excellent plugin and it suitable for the alternative to height field generator.

hey there iam using maya 2012 64-bit version on windows 7 ,i tried to install the plugin , the scripts file into the directory of scripts in maya2012/scripts folder, and the displace.mll into bin/plug-in , opend the plugin-manager and the plugin has shown but when i clicked on load i got error:????????? ???? ???? . (displaced) massage in red line , now i know there were only scripts files that suppose to work only with earlier version of maya , is there any way i can edit the scripts easly in order to make it load , if so please send me massage to f35fly@hotmail.com

Any support for maya 2012 planned for this?
Thankyou

First thank u "hajime" for this great tool which must be in Maya it self, I think so... ;) realy usefull...

in description - Maya2012 supported? But I have this problem:

// Error: Unable to dynamically load : C:/Documents and Settings/Gabriel/My Documents/maya/2012/DisplaceD.mll
The specified procedure could not be found.
//
// Error: The specified procedure could not be found.
//
// Error: The specified procedure could not be found.
(DisplaceD) //

copyed Scripts in scripts and Plugin to Plugins, I have Maya 2012 SP1, any idea?

Great oldschool style deformer.

Very veratile when used the right way.
We use it mainly to quickly animate flags and other simple clothy stuff where simulation would be overkill.

Just keep up compatibility with newer Maya versions please! (or release source so we can compile it ourselves).

If not the plug will simply die out... which would be a shame.

Great work with this deformer. Any chance of getting compile for Maya 2013? Especiall for OS X? I would also volunteer for compiling it myself, as I already have some other plugins on the line here.
Please don't let this deformer die, because it's a great addition to the toolset in maya. Thanks.

This just made my day, and the performance is incredible! Tens of thousands of polygons deforming with animated procedural maps in real-time. Bravo!