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I will look into any "freeze" solution! I did try to apply the displace modifier instead, but like you said, I ran into memory problems, plus the modifier didn't seem to get all the 32bit info which resulted in inaccurate displacement.

Hi there, again walking into an issue with render times 😉 I have a very dense plane (1000x1000 with Arnold subdivs on 3 iterations), with a huge displacement map on it 64k (1gb in size). Material itself is black and I use a long but thin light to create some kind of scanning bar light across the plane. Render settings are very low, so one frame takes 5 seconds in the IPR window. It takes over 2 minutes in the Picture viewer. I assume because it has to calculate the subdivs+displacement for every frame, and somehow the IPR window does not when i skip between frames in the timeline? Anyone knows how to get the rendertimes on par with the IPR in this case? Or even better, is there a script or something to just output an animation directly from the IPR?

So back in business! I applied your corrected version, it kind of worked, but found I got weird artifacts on my model. Eventually I think it might have something to do with my mesh model. As for example it reacts weirdly to subdivisions as well. You can set it to 0 or 1, which has an effect, but going higher than 1 does nothing. You have to put yet another SDS on it to have an effect. So maybe its just the mesh that has issues. Anyways, I kinda gave up as its not a huge deal in this case, and i cheated a bit with compositing textures to make it look better on the edges, which was my whole reason to have it effect a denser mesh. I know thats not a cool thing to give up, but hey, sometimes it saves you a lot of headaches 😉 Thanks for your help, and maybe these techniques will help me in the future!

My graphics card died on me yesterday 🥲 So will continue this project after I find a replacement...

Tried your first option, but it didn't seam to translate. I put the SDS with the Correction deformer underneath it in a Null. And copied the Vertex Map on the Correction deformer. It didn't seem to do anything in the viewport. And when trying to render it, it just kept preparing. Option 2 is not ideal as it's not live and seems like a last resort, so havent tried that one yet. Option 3 took some time to figure out, but something seems to be happening. I will experiment a bit further with it. Thanks for your help so far!

Hi there, i'm trying to figure out the following. Just a beginner, so please bear with me 🙂 I have a skinned character that is a child of a Subdivision Surface. I'm using a Vertex map tag on the character so I can animate the shader. Although the base model itself is low res, I get a nice gradient on the Vertex map with a Linear field. But now i want to break up the gradient with a noise map on a Random Field. Here is where the problem comes in. The noise map is based on the low res model, and not on the subdivided one. I seems I can't collapse the subdivided character model because then I would lose the skinning. And I can't get the Vertex map tag to work on the subdivision. Any help would be appreciated 🙂