Behavior of displacement map?

[Delicate]

Hi. I want to try some advanced effects using the displacement map feature. So I studied how the effect behaves (see picture). I made a mask with three fields, white, 50% gray and black. And I noticed that a mask with 50% gray doesn't make any displacement shift. And that a mask lighter than 50% gray do make a displacement towards the upper-left corner and that a mask darker than 50% gray make a displacement towards the bottom-right corner.

My question is, can the displacement direction be changed somehow? Now it is 45° (between vertical and horizontal). I would mainly want the displacement direction to be horizontal. I have tried to "cheat" the direction by rotating frames etc. in Objects and animation, but so far haven't found a solution. 

If you ask me why I want to do so,... no, I'm not trying to do any fancy transition effects etc. What I want is to try out some 3D effects and for that reason I need the displacement direction to be horizontal.

Thanks,

Jan

 

[denisb]

Hi

 

Try RGB(255,128,128) and RGB(0,128,128)

Red move Horizontally Green move vertically Blue does Nothing

 

Denis

[Igor]

Jan,

In future PTE 12 we added new 2 modes: Chromatic displacement and Dynamic gradient map. It will give you more creative possibilities.

[Delicate]

Great Denis, that's the solution to my problem!

And Igor, looking forward for improved gradient maps!

Thanks both!

Jan