Real grass

[CookiE]

How do other ppl make there renders with real grass look?

Do you use Displacement or modeled grass?

I am trying to get a nice scene with grass climbing up the edges of my pathments etc and the only way i know how to do this is scatter huge amounts of grass blades with a rotation transform.

But this puts 1000's apon 1000's of polygons in the scene and massivly kills rendering time let alone if i was to vray it...

[Arnold Sher]

vray displacement... If you search this forum i am sure you can find a tutorial on it... I remember seeing one...

[gfa2]

Vray fur also. The Vray displacement will get you grass that is basically standing staight up, while the fur can do grass and weeds that curve and hang different directions.

[CookiE]

Vray fur also. The Vray displacement will get you grass that is basically standing staight up, while the fur can do grass and weeds that curve and hang different directions.

 

Thanks for the info but im wanting something in normal scan line max

can you use these options without using the vray renderer?

[gfa2]

max has a hair and fur render effect built in, you could probably get that to do what you want.

[CookiE]

max has a hair and fur render effect built in, you could probably get that to do what you want.

OK ill give that a go and see what i can do with that

[Ricardo Eloy]

You can, indeed, use Max's inbuilt Hair&Fur. It's a bit tricky to get grass to look right, but it has been improved for Max 9, so it probably got easier.

[CookiE]

You can, indeed, use Max's inbuilt Hair&Fur. It's a bit tricky to get grass to look right, but it has been improved for Max 9, so it probably got easier.

 

Im still on 7 lol so ill have to see what i can do

[Tyorl]

Im still on 7 lol so ill have to see what i can do

Just update your max to 7.5 and u'll get the Hair&Fur

[kippu]

well try the scatter trick.... take a poly , make one grass stalk.... scatter it on the ground you want the grass...