UofOstudent opened this issue on Nov 28, 2007 · 11 posts
UofOstudent posted Wed, 28 November 2007 at 2:32 PM
Recently I've been looking at ways to create grass for my scene, and I'd like to go beyond using texture maps and create actual 3d grass. Namely, I'll need a field of regular grass approximately 100 by 100 feet with the camera about 30 feet away, tilted downwards about 10-30 degrees. I'd like to explore free solutions, but I'm not opposed to something that I need to pay for. Any ideas? Thoughts?
Edit: I found out about Digital Carvers' Guild "Anything grows"-does anyone know if I can use it to create a field that large using my machine (core 2 duo, 3 gb RAM)?
MarkBremmer posted Wed, 28 November 2007 at 2:59 PM
Attached Link: Field of Grass
Anything Grows is nice - but may not be the total answer. Using the surface replicator is probably your best bet. For the image shown at the link above, I simply make a couple of clumps-of-grass and then replicated it across the terrain. You could us Anything Grows to help with the clump. When Anything grows first came out, I did [ this](http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=217419&member) image with it.
GKDantas posted Wed, 28 November 2007 at 3:03 PM
You can use the hair system C6Pro, I saw many renders done with it to create grass fields, some are at Daz gallery.
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MarkBremmer posted Wed, 28 November 2007 at 3:07 PM
I was going to mention that and forgot GK. Thanks for filling in the blanks!
GKDantas posted Thu, 29 November 2007 at 12:52 PM
No problem, but I never tried to do that using the hair in C6, I just saw some works here and at Daz gallery.
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tkane18 posted Fri, 30 November 2007 at 9:04 AM
GKDantas posted Fri, 30 November 2007 at 11:03 AM
ominousplay posted Fri, 30 November 2007 at 4:14 PM
Never Give Up!
GKDantas posted Fri, 30 November 2007 at 4:21 PM
This is very good, think that can do a great animation for blowing wind in the grass
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ren_mem posted Sun, 02 December 2007 at 2:47 PM
You can mix up different 3d plant models w/ replicator. Probably look most real. I think the hair has limits for grass, but is a good choice for animation.
No need to think outside the box....
Just make it
invisible.
GKDantas posted Sun, 02 December 2007 at 4:33 PM
The secret to use hair as grass is the scale,so thehair can be large e more believeble.
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