Grass texture

[Jason Matthews]

Can someone tell me how to get a realistic grass. I have tried everything I know how. Maybe I don't do something correctly. I don't know. I am using regular Viz, prob. radiosity, scanline renderings. I do not have any work to look at, but I was hoping that I could get some settings and then apply them. Thanks

[Josh1587140445]

You can try this tutorial found at 3dtotal.com.

http://3dtotal.com/ffa/tutorials/max/grass/grass1.asp

 

If that does not work for you, I have some relative success creating a composite material and just using the given grass maps. Rotating and scaling them. That will help get rid of the tiling effect.

[Jason Matthews]

Thanks for the input. I will give it a try.

[Jason Matthews]

I appreciate the advise. I will look on these sites. Procedurals do seem to be the way to go.

 

[ February 07, 2004, 01:39 PM: Message edited by: Saturn ]

[Psychoscorpic]

I have gone away from using tiled maps for terrain and switched to Procedurals for this.

 

It eliminates the tiling issues, and allows use of Noise etc to introduce fractal complexity to the grass etc, as seen in nature.

(Colour variations, length of grass variations, density of grass/worn patches etc)

 

Does cause a bit of rendertime hit, but it is well worth it in the end.

 

Check CG-Talk, CG-Focus and 3D-Total sites for tutorials on this.

 

Geoff