realistic grass

[dnaranjo]

Hi everyone.

 

I am trying to render an aereal view of hudge scene. everything looks fine but the grass is very flat and unrealistic. I found some tutorials on how to make realistic grass like http://www.suurland.com/tut_grass/tutorial_grass_r3.htm

But they are all only good for close ups.

 

Thanks for any help you could give me

[DennisHolland]

For a highshot (aireals etc) the regular textures tile, small grasstextures tile like hell. The Suurland tut is cool for a small lawn but it will increase your rendertimes when scattering millions of splines, so forget it. The best you could do is buy yourself a super highres map at Turbosquid.com or deal with a flat, nicely green surface and juggle with specularmaps until you got a cool grassy field. Finishing touch, add a very fine grainmap in the bumpslot, deal with that in Photoshop or so and set it to appr. 250/300...

 

Using Vray? Then go for the displacementmap. Large rendertimes as well but tweak it, optimize it and have a cool lawn...

[cyberarchi]

check links in here : http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=112808

[dbarc]

I would be tempted to search for large aerial photography images on google and try to pinch a texture direct from that. I've had good, quick results doing that which avoided having to create the thing procedurally.

[dnaranjo]

Thanks every one.

 

I finally got the results I wanted.

[nisus]

Can yo show us your results? Tnx

 

nisus