Scatter points on displaced surface

[MAYA_]

I have a plane I am scattering some points on and eventually, I will instance geometry onto those points. The plane has a shader on with displacement which is fine but it causes my geometry to be covered by the displacement in some instances. Is there any way I can translate my points with the displacement so this doesn't happen?

I am grateful for any suggestions

[AntoineSfx]

20 hours ago, SquirkyTurtle said:

I have a plane I am scattering some points on and eventually, I will instance geometry onto those points. The plane has a shader on with displacement which is fine but it causes my geometry to be covered by the displacement in some instances. Is there any way I can translate my points with the displacement so this doesn't happen?

I am grateful for any suggestions

Yes. See the paragraph Making scattered points stick on changing geometry  in the scatter node documentation.

[Noobini]

cannot see how it will work for shader displacement...

[MAYA_]

17 hours ago, Noobini said:

cannot see how it will work for shader displacement...

Yeah, I looked at the documentation but I don't see how I can apply this to my specific problem. Any chance you could elaborate @AntoineSfx?

[chrisdunham95]

Perhaps bring in whatever displacement is happening in your shader into a point vop and applying it to your particles/points position just after scattering perhaps?

[TheDude]

So once you've got your points on your deforming geometry, you can then inherit your UVs from the object, and displace by the texture

[MAYA_]

Thank you guys!