Grass once again - final comments needed!

[chi]

the third pic looks cool...im guessing this is made with hair department?...anyways umm the only real crit i have is you dont really need to have the grass a three sided object you could pull of the same effect with just flat polys

[LukasS]

Yes it's Hair dept.

And yes it's 3-sided grass, i tried to do 2 sided (flat) but the results weren't enough for me. But i think if i have time and patience i'll try to return to this.

[fxgogo]

First one for me. I like pastelly, soft lighting. I would try putting a variation in the colour of the grass, just a large subtle color noise in the color channel should do it. As for a plugin for trees, I just found the x-frog plug-in for free on Digit magazine in the UK. It does amazing plants. Is this for an animation? Good work so far.

[LukasS]

Originally posted by fxgogo
First one for me. I like pastelly, soft lighting. I would try putting a variation in the colour of the grass, just a large subtle color noise in the color channel should do it.


Well i like it myself and i'm divided and dunno which one i should work more on.


As for a plugin for trees, I just found the x-frog plug-in for free on Digit magazine in the UK. It does amazing plants. Is this for an animation? Good work so far.

THX! I'll look for this x-frog plug.

[CosmicBear]

yeah, i like the first one the best as well. i think, in the two other pictures, the green of the grass is too bright in contrast to the light. you should pull back on the color a bit in these pictures...

[LucentDreams]

my main crit is the seam between the grass and the sky, very unnatural making it look like two images composited together, one reason not to use a photo bg

rather than use the polys and HN, why not use the spine and solidspline?

[chi]

please inform us of solid spline??

[LucentDreams]

solid spline is a plugin available in two varieties, plain and pro available for Xl 7. Basically is a special kind of sweep alowing for tapers and such and should be available from the plugin cafe I believe.

[LukasS]

But this solid spline dos round objects or it can do flat? Didn't noticed.

But good plug :) afterall.

[LukasS]

BTW i didn't write what i wanted to get. It wasn't supposed to e very realistic image. It has to have climat of some sort. It will be pp in photoshop to be a promo pic to my site.

Later i will add some black/grey grass/leaves in photoshop (efect of camera being between the grass).

Some other minor effects and manipulations will be done to achieve what i want.

What do you think? I suppose that third render would be good for it. And i used very contrast colors with reason - it will good in final image.

[medula]

Originally posted by LukasS
BTW i didn't write what i wanted to get. It wasn't supposed to e very realistic image. What do you think? I suppose that third render would be good for it. And i used very contrast colors with reason - it will good in final image.

I think the 3rd image does fit the bill if you're after a surrealistic look.

I love the blocky look of the grass and how it gets a little haze in the distance.

However, the sky should probably follow suit in terms of the style, shouldn't it? How about some matching blocky clouds and a faceted sun for example?

It just seems unfinished in that sense to me. That's my 2 cents anyway . . .

I hope this provides some insight for ya. ;)

[LucentDreams]

Originally posted by LukasS
But this solid spline dos round objects or it can do flat? Didn't noticed.

But good plug :) afterall.

your right but if you hypernurb a three sided on your going to get a round blade of grass as well, Didn't think that was your concern.

if you wanna avoid roundness you should only have a 2 sided blade cause then if you HN it it will have the same width but be smooth

[LukasS]

Yes you're right and i did that, made the first (of three) parts of scene new and the grass is 2 sided with HN,

about the SS, i noticed that max size can be only 100 (i have v1) and it's rather small if i wanna do something else than grass, and final thing Hair Dept gives much more control over the final polygons and i like that, for example:

I can set the properties of the blade to start with 80% (of size) middle with 75% and tip with 15% wich gives me nice blade :).

Well for now i changed a bit of camera view (lowered the altitude) and currently working with sunlight. I wanna have effect of sun with rays (like rays coming through clouds). I have in mind some trees but it will be final step.

@medula

You got me wrong, this was only a test render and i didn't go to HN the grass for now (to get faster renders) and in final scene it will be all HN :).

But thx for advice.

BTW look at http://www.forum.3d.pl/ there was a contest lately and the rules where to do image with only cubes, i like some of the renders and i mention it after medulas' reply :).

[medula]

Cubism eh? :cool:

Either way . . I look forward to your next revision! :)

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