shadows at displacement seams

necro

L3: Member
Mar 24, 2008
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Any suggestions on whats causing this? The textures look fine in hammer. VRAD is causing nasty shadows where my displacements meet.
 

Foreverkul

L4: Comfortable Member
Apr 12, 2008
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I think its because they are separate displacements, so it actually blocks the light slightly in that area, but I don't use displacements much. What direction is the light coming from?
 

necro

L3: Member
Mar 24, 2008
106
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just an arbitrary sun angle. But you can see in that screenshot that the shadow directions vary. It's odd, I've used displacements before without this result
 

Paria

L5: Dapper Member
Dec 12, 2007
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are the displacements only on one face of the original brush ? i.e you havent misclicked and made them 6 sided displacements ?
 

necro

L3: Member
Mar 24, 2008
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lol! Got it. I accidently put the -fast parameter in vrad rather than vvis. I didnt even know vrad had a fast option. Thanks anyway. :)