Grassy lawn in Maya 5

[Jozvex]

Well this is an Alias tutorial that uses Paint Effects grass:

http://www.alias.com/eng/community/tutorials/file/grass_logo.zip

But it's for a logo. It'll still show you how the grass works though!

[Stychentyme]

Hey Jozvex, good to hear from you again!

I don't know if you remember, but we chatted awhile ago about some of your mental ray tutorials. I have some more questions about Mental ray, would you mind if I emailed you?

Thanks for the tip on that grass logo, I appreciate it.

[alexx]

Originally posted by Stychentyme
I want to make the grass look realistic, but I don't want to endure eccessively long render times.


hmm.. i guess you have to go for one way or the other..
at least if it is a lot grass you can see and you have no locked camera it is very likely that the rendertimes go quite up - even with paintFX grass, since you will have to render it in quite high resolutions to have it non flickering (btw.. i never tried the new AA options for paint FX in 5.0.. anyone did?)

but nevertheless: paintFX might be a good solution.
if the grass is meant to be a bit higher and your camera angle is not too steep, you could as well think about mapping pre rendered grass strips from paint FX to plains that you stick in the ground. you could instance those to save memory. that style can look very good as well.

cheers

alexx

[Jozvex]

Originally posted by Stychentyme
I have some more questions about Mental ray, would you mind if I emailed you?

Eeek, sorry I didn't come back to this thread for some reason! Have you already emailed me with your questions?

If not, then yes you can email me!

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