How do you work with a 16,000,000 polygon landscape without dealing with 16,000,000 polygons? This uses Cinema 4D, but the technique should work in any 3D software you like to use.

00:00 Intro

00:10 Why are up-res displacement maps a good idea.

01:00 The Stupid But Correct™️ solution (at a glance)

01:42 STEP1: Making the depth maps we’ll use

01:42 Setting up the Depth camera

03:47 Setting up the proxy geometry landscape

04:57 Setting up the full resolution mountain

06:28 Render settings for the depth maps

07:43 STEP2: Turning depth maps into a displacement map

09:10 STEP3: Checking our work!

10:49 Next up