Grass .....?????

[kiwi]

A very highly sub divided plane and a displacment map,or the matrix extrude function :) Grass without a plugin is very hard to make look good.You do mean like blades of grass right?



Stu.

[magicpatrick]

Yes, thats what I mean. Thanks, I`ll try it.

[Gunter]

Wait for DiTools 0.9, coming soon I hope.
Testing beta-version of the plug, I made a quick and dirty animation-test of grass just with DiSplingen and animated Noise-texture.
The little animation is a Bink-exe file, dont´t be afraid, nothing will be installed. It just comes with the decoder.
Anim grass (http://www.gtvision.de/public/DiTools/Gras.exe)

[Claudio72]

absolutelly awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :thumbsup:

[anobrin]

Heres some animated grass
took about 90seconds in Cinema4dxl version7.3


http://66.70.166.29/promo/grass.mov



:D

[Claudio72]

do you use the ditool 0.9?

[squidinc]

I've used a grass generator which can give some pretty good results ( not sure about animating though )

http://www.bantam3d.com

look for the free grass thing on this link

[Claudio72]

do you have something to show us made with it squid??
:lightbulb

[squidinc]

erm... hehe nope :D
I only found a link to it a week or two ago
it looks pretty good though, basically you decide what shape and how much bend you want the grass to have and then it generates a obj format file which can be imported and textured in c4d, I think the program itself can apply textures to individual blades, not entirely sure though

[Claudio72]

so.......I've to try it..........I'm making a fountain still and I need a good grass shader(don't care about the animation feature)

[flingster]

Claudio72: if you come across any grass shader or settings...please lemme know will ya....thanks:thumbsup:

[Claudio72]

sure!!!!!!!!!

:beer:

[anobrin]

Originally posted by Claudio72
do you use the ditool 0.9?

Nope .

I used hair Department
Cinema's most underrated free plugin

[JIII]

Where can i get hair department????

[brammelo]

Is hair department available for R8 yet? Or to put it otherwise: does the current version functions under R8-conditions?

Cheers,
BaRa

[magicpatrick]

Wow, what a responce, I think I give that free program bantam3d a Chance. Thanks to you all!!!:bounce:

[JIII]

I just downloaded hair department and it seems to work fine in 8

[bjotto]

I did some tests with nickl and hair dept:

the file: http://hem.passagen.se/bjotto/Untitled 1.c4d.zip
edit: copy the adress to a new window instead of using the link

This works on flat surfaces but not on curved, by using a restriction tag the deformation could be controlled but how do you make the weightmap?

[bjotto]

one way is to simply dublicate object with weightmaps all over the curved surface using tp or particletarget in r7.

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