1.17 million blades of grass and no memory left

[yoni-cohen]

you could easily get a way by cheating it..

[yowchuan]

Yup, well-planned camera cuts will make some really major "optimizations".

[Marcel]

If I look at your image, the grass is basically a green color with a lot off noise. If you are making a still image and not an animation, you can use an texturemap with lots of noise. Turn the blurring down (blur and blur offset) or else the renderer will smooth out your noisy texturemap.

When you are making an animation, then the noise would cause you problems, maybe heavy supersampling could solve that.

[TimWoods]

for stills. The best way i have found to do grass, (just used this on my latest photomontage of a Fosters Project in Mancester) is to get a digital camera and search for a patch of grass at the correct angle, then just map it on or put it in afterwards in photoshop, really works a treat.
As for animation, maps with noise will probably be the best, because as i can see from you image if i was in that stadium the scale of the grass would be up to my waist.
i think mapping for distance and polys for close.
thats my 2p worth.

:thumbsup:

[Chaos Maximus]

my character is going to need to be running around in the grass, so i cant fake it, or at least not all of it. i think im gonig to try to have rooling hills as far as you can see, and that is where i need to fake the grass, how do i do that so there isnt a seam where i switch from 3d to 2d grass?, should i use a rendering of the grass as the texture for consistancy? thanks for the help, chaos

[lebada]

well..try not to eat and buy another 512 mb of ram:D

[Chaos Maximus]

planning on trippling the ram, as soon as possilbe, taht will not be for a bit, so im still looking for a way to do this.

[Chaos Maximus]

btw, where did shave and a haircut go, i cant find a new release date, and its 5 monts over due. ? anyone know?
thanks

[RJB]

Why are you even bothering to model every blade of grass?

[BrandonD]

Most of the time, a brute force approach like this is NOT the way to go. Use a texture map for shots like this. With grass you need to get really close before you start to see individual blades of grass.

[Signal2Noise]

Try Tim Woods suggestion. Then smoke some real grass to relax yourself from arraying your 1170000 blades you did and move onto another project.

And go out and buy more RAM. Then smoke some more grass...:surprised

[censored]

shave and a haircut's development is making its merry way along.

[ElysiumGX]

I would just like to add...

You have too much free time.:surprised

[Chaos Maximus]

i do have too much time, but. i need to be able to get close to the grass, close enough that i will see the individual blades. i needed to do the same thing in this project too, thats why i modeled the grass.

thanks, all

[halo]

thought about using renders of the blades placed onto polys ...?...you could always use proper geometry up close, renders futher back and just a map futher away...

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