Rendering grass in 3D Max

[Gnarly Cranium]

Grass is my bane, my nemesis, my horror.... :ngeupset:

 

I can see how the methods outlined here would be good for making a convincing lawn... but what if the house is in more natural surroundings, with, say, bunch grasses and bushes and stuff like that??? :ngesighw:

[nisus]

well gnarly, that's another topic of course... just check out worldbuilder or vue d'esprit id say...

 

nisus

[Reitveld]

Here is my fits with making a grass texture fit the ground. And my answer.

 

link to this thread

[quizzy]

how do you guys like this grass?

 

http://www.3idee.nl/cgarchitect/grass2.avi

 

[ April 10, 2003, 10:59 AM: Message edited by: quizzy ]

[Brian Cassil]

I get a response saying the link is dead.

[quizzy]

yep that was just a trick to get you all on my page.... :winkgrin:

 

I've edited the post it should work now...

 

evil post number 666

[Brian Cassil]

Looks nice. Could you describe what method you used to achieve this? Also, what is the geometry count and rendering times?

[quizzy]

10 secs per frame, its custom rpc's...

[nisus]

hi Quizzy,

 

I notice a lot of repeated patterns... Maybe you should make larger strokes...

 

rgds

 

nisus

[quizzy]

i'll just have to make more grasses..

[Da_RoCk]

Hey guys... thanks for all d tips. god speed.

[DennisB]

Post-processed grass can be fast and very effective, assuming it's an acceptable final format. Here's a small example that took about 30 seconds to paint. Although this one has wildflowers too, simple lawn is just as easy.

 

I've tried to do a couple of tutorials using similarly painted textures, which depend a lot on the camera angle. See if Coyote Run (the Poser link takes you to the tutorials) or Kansas offer any new approaches.

 

If nothing else, download the textures that go with the tutorials and give them a try. Each texture has a precise aplha channel mask.

 

PS. These are from a commercial site, but the page links bypass the front door, etc.

 

Good luck,

Dennis@DigArts

[gus_webb]

i don't know if anyone will have any knowledge or experience in this, but here it goes...

i'm trying to model a scene with a lawn that ends at field, so it goes from cut grass to a long prairie grass at a defined edge. i've been able to "fake" it with photoshop so far, but i'm going to animate it eventually, so i need something that looks good right out of viz. the scene is very large, with several buildings, trees, etc, so i don't want to add a ton of rendering time with a bunch of little grass models if i can help it. anybody have any thoughts?

thank you!

[nisus]

limit your cameraview to eyelevel and model/animate a small front row

 

nisus

[losbellos]

try this:

http://www.3dm-mc.com/tutorials/grass

honesly I dint read it all, cause my eyes becoming some sort of fluid, but I think this is a good solution for all kind of persentation.

(animation/still)

Especially if your renderer supports instances.

then you make just a little peace of it, and the play with the scatterer whatever.

Good Luck!