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title: "Using Displacement"
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> ℹ️ See [PxrDisplace](https://renderman.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/REN20/pages/21561423) for how to add scalar and vector displacement as well as displacement layers.

- Add a PxrDisplace VOP to your RIS Network and connect to the PxrMaterialBuilder's output_collect node.  Wire your displacement map such as creating a [PxrTexture](https://renderman.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/REN20/pages/21561575) VOP or [PxrPtexture](https://renderman.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/REN20/pages/21561569) VOP for texture or ptex respectively.  We can wire a shading network also.  We recommend vector-based displacement, especially when layering.

- Wire your PxrDisplace VOP to the shader input of the output_collect node.

![image](media://103385c8-9831-4399-9ff9-73490c59882b)

- Displacement settings are found on the RenderMan tab > Primvars > Shading > Displacement on the geometry OBJ being displaced.

![image](media://7fbc4c45-6dcd-4b38-83ea-4e54c3f2a3fd)

> ✅ Trace displacements is on by default.
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> ✅ Set a displacement bound to render displacement, a setting of 0 turns off displacement on the object.