[bodebodebode]

Part of a WIP.

Both grass and earth displaced.

[deadalvs]

[deadalvs]

or:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krVXRCcr2M4


*muahaha*

[bodebodebode]

*muahaha*

HUAhuuhaeaahaheauhaahaehehahaheuuepapaeoeapoeaa ..


caddyshack gopher WTF aheuahahahehahahehuaheuaea..

heheheahaehaehahaeheheag ...

Nice one !

[Soth3d]

brilliant



When doing grass we followed great Realistic Design tutorial.
Trees are imported xFrog objects 'Maxwell' surfaced in Lightwave.
Lighting is done by Maxwell.

We just modelled the sphere, hahaha.

[wagurto]

are there any of these trees available to share with the rest of the mortal users of maxwell?

[kami]

brilliant


When doing grass we followed great Realistic Design tutorial.
Trees are imported xFrog objects 'Maxwell' surfaced in Lightwave.
Lighting is done by Maxwell.

We just modelled the sphere, hahaha.

I think the sphere could use some improvement
where does one find the grass tutorial?

[Bubbaloo]

I think the sphere could use some improvement

I think I see some facets...

[deadalvs]

yo kami ..

http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... hp?t=20883

theres's an attached pdf ..

greets from zurich ..

[kami]

yo kami ..

http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... hp?t=20883

theres's an attached pdf ..

greets from zurich ..

thx a lot. totally forgot about that one. when i used the technique once i did not get that beautiful results but maybe i didn't use enough planes for the grass.
guten rutsch matthias!

[deadalvs]

i just bought natFx for maya with 30 seeds ..........

i'll have to wait for the payment approval, then i'll be able to pump out some impressive renders ..

FINALLY !

( but damn, this is an expensive hobby !)

[deadalvs]

and now i need a beer ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFBYIT4fvcY

[Bubbaloo]

I have used NatFX and Onyx, and I have to say Onyx is sooo much better looking in the realism department. But you will still get some good results from Bionatics. You need to make your own materials though. The standard materials look lousy in my opinion.

(P.S. That music was horrible...)

[deadalvs]

yes, the materials have to be set up properly... also color corrections ..

i have onyx version 4 .. it's a couple years old and might be surpassed by far by now, but i really like those options i get directly within maya with LOD and so on. (even though i never used them so far .... hehe )

i'm looking forward though ..

as far as i've seen so far in this thread, the plant realism comes mainly (as you said) with the shaders and overall scene geometry. plants themselves never stand alone without other little vegetation or pebbles or grass or ..

i don't remember whose pic it was, but there's been one about two years ago where an entry way is seen with a little street and many pot plants in very realistic clay pots. it's been the most realistic vegetation pic with maxwell so far.

[Soth3d]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFBYIT4fvcY