Grass again (but animated)

[Jonathan]

Im looking for a solution to model and render fore and mid ground animated grass. The hair and fur modifier is just too problematic and its not happening for me. Ive had great still results with a MR adaption of Peter Guthries method, (poly modelled, scattered, patched and scattered but would this approach work in animation? I havent seen any examples of this in my web searches but Im determined not to use hair and fur.

[Justin Hunt]

you can have animated objects for mr proxies, so maybe animate a sway in the grass before converting it to a proxie.

 

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[Jonathan]

Hi Justin, I thought of that however there would be no control over the motion. It would be great to have some dynamic effect such as with wind space warps but this is imposible with scattered proxies right?

[Jonathan]

Im having a try at animating individual grass blades and then scattering them across at plane which works well, only now how do I attach the objects to be able to create a proxy file as attaching removes any animation?

[notamondayfan]

I think you need to model, animate, proxy, then scatter.

[Jonathan]

[ATTACH=CONFIG]45398[/ATTACH] Hi Dean, I think your right, the only way seems to be to model, animate, proxy and scatter. As Ive found, this works fine on close up detail (see frame 1 attached), but on wider fields of view the amount of proxies needed becomes a problem. Perhaps spending the time to create a dense patch is the answer?