How do you do realistic grass

How do you do realistic grass#340188

By brodie_geers - Wed Mar 23, 2011 5:44 pm

- Wed Mar 23, 2011 5:44 pm #340188

The current wave for grass is to create some real geometry and scatter it about. Most of the tutorials I've seen are, of course, geared towards vray or mental ray and involve methods of scattering that either don't work for maxwell or don't work as well.

What do you guys use for this sort of thing? I'm wanting to scatter about 3 types of grass and 2 or 3 types of flowers. It's a fairly large area so I'm hoping for something less manual than adv. painter.

I've never used maxwell proxies so I'm not sure if part of the solution lies there perhaps.

-Brodie

Re: How do you do realistic grass#340193

By Hervé - Wed Mar 23, 2011 6:35 pm

- Wed Mar 23, 2011 6:35 pm #340193

That one is pretty cool.. no..? I mean you can always add more maps.. so more variations you get..

http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... 83&start=0

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Re: How do you do realistic grass#340195

By brodie_geers - Wed Mar 23, 2011 6:52 pm

- Wed Mar 23, 2011 6:52 pm #340195

It is a nice method. I don't see it used as much as I would expect. I don't think it would work as well for what I'm doing though. I also wonder how well it would work with variations.

-Brodie

Re: How do you do realistic grass#340197

By Hervé - Wed Mar 23, 2011 7:01 pm

- Wed Mar 23, 2011 7:01 pm #340197

hehe.. oki.. I used to do this.. I guess the hard way..

http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... rass+patch

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Re: How do you do realistic grass#340201

By brodie_geers - Wed Mar 23, 2011 7:27 pm

- Wed Mar 23, 2011 7:27 pm #340201

Yeah, that's along the lines of what I'm looking to try. Of course now, we've got thinSSS which should certainly help. Still not sure on the best way to scatter the geometry around though. Did you ever scatter that patch to create a larger lawn area?

-Brodie