How to give the "low poly" effect to a flat surface

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I'm looking for a way to achieve this kind of effect; the ground path seems to have 'relief' but in fact it's flat; the character doesn't bump on it.

For now i'm starting with a plane; subdivide; displace (cloud); and then I select a bunch of faces which i scale-z to but even; i end up with a shitty flat surface with no color.

What am I doing wrong ?

You could render out your displaced plane and save it as an image. Then use the image as a texture. — Dontwalk, Jun 03 '16 at 17:50
Bake your low poly geometry to the flat surface using a bump map or normal map. — Neal Davis, Jun 03 '16 at 17:58

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:57

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You can bake the normals of the low poly object and use that as a texture on the plane.
With a Color Ramp you can change the colors of the normal map texture.

How to bake in Cycles

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:57

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answered Jun 03 '16 at 18:32

How to give the "low poly" effect to a flat surface

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