highway grass texture

[pipjor]

i'm doing a flythrough animation that travels down 5 miles of interstate.

i'm trying to figure out the best way to texute the grass median etc.

i'm using 3ds 8

please see attachment.

thanks,

[pipjor]

i may have figured it out myself.

1. create tileable grass texture in PS

2. Use "Composite" material in 3DS..

 

any suggestions for the trees??

has anyone used VRAY, Onyx proxies???i never have but i'm leaning on buying VRAY and Onyx just for this..

thanks,

[lxgrunger]

use Treestorm and convert it to vray proxies

[gfa2]

I agree with the Onyx recommendation. I did a highway scene that had over17,000 onyx trees in it and is looks pretty cool. Some would say that's overkill...I say yeah, probably.

[mskin]

also play around with blend materials. maybe take two composites, one dirty and one grassy or something.