Maxwell Grass

[eric nixon]

Maxwell 2.7 Grass modifier using mostly default settings and a good grass blade material.

 

[Chris MacDonald]

Looks brilliant. Is it geometry based or rather like a hair & fur plugin?

[eric nixon]

Thanks, The grass geo is generated onto any object with a grass modifier tag, when you hit render.

Whats cool is that the grass blades dont intersect each other..

 

This image used nearly a gig of ram for the grass geo, so ram usage could be an issue.

[RyderSK]

I think 1GB for grass is definitely not problem, I routinely use 4times that just for grass, and that is quite optimised grass :- )

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 9, 2012 by RyderSK
wrong link

[Devin Johnston]

How long did it take to render that grass ball?

[eric nixon]

The sunlight-hdri slows it down, This render was over an hour on 12 real cores @3.8.. but I also cranked the settings right up (20 subdivs per blade), so that affected ram usage too.

 

If you need to cover a football pitch you can use much, much more optimal settings, and crucially theres a progressive LOD filter to reduce the number of distant grass blades.

Edited May 10, 2012 by eric nixon