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kangonto

06-04-2004, 11:50 AM

Hi to all.

I'm a Lightwave User. I'm quite satisfied with this nice application, but i'm looking for new horizons, so i'm testing 3DSMAX 6 with VRay.

Recently i've been tweaking with materials and i'm trying to imitate a nice grass texture which i was using with Lightwave in my newest projects (architecturals).

The procedure on lightwave consisted in having a grass texture map and various layers of noise of diferent colors and types (actually 7 or 8 layers). This produces a quite reallistic grass from all distances.

So i'm trying to obtain the same effect with Max. I started making a Composited material (i think is the only way to put various layers in the same material), but i have noticed that render times raise too much.

Any ideas to make this fast?

THX in advance

JeffPatton

06-04-2004, 02:55 PM

Since your using Vray, it's easy! Use the Vray displacement modifer. It makes wonderful grass. It would also be worth your time to sign up on the chaos web-board as well.

There's several grass threads (with scene examples) on the forum there. I would post the direct links, but you won't be able to view them until you have signed up.

www.chaoticdimension.com/forums

Jeff

kangonto

06-04-2004, 07:19 PM

Thanks, I'll take a look

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