Gloor
12-04-2010, 07:37 PM
Hello guys,
I have a scene where I need to have good looking grass - not necessarily realistic but realistic enough to look good. (something between cartoon and photorealistic)
I've found this tutorial and with some tweaks it works great and is kinda what I was looking for but it doesn't work on the big plane I needed for
http://cg-nation.com/articles/modeling/maya-grass-tutorial-using-maya-fur
Basically, my planes is about 10x bigger so increasing density to about 1mil makes it still not enough (the grass is really bold) but the render is not really working as either maya crashes or it takes ages (tried to leave my 12 core mac pro over 2 hours and still no render).
What do you think would be the best way to do the grass for the scene? What else can I tweak in the grass setting to get really rich grass (not few grass hair every few cms)? I can't scale the scene as the models don't scale that well. :(
Any idea?
Or if you know how to tweak the render so it doesn't take ages or crashes that would really help too
Thank you very much.
I have a scene where I need to have good looking grass - not necessarily realistic but realistic enough to look good. (something between cartoon and photorealistic)
I've found this tutorial and with some tweaks it works great and is kinda what I was looking for but it doesn't work on the big plane I needed for
http://cg-nation.com/articles/modeling/maya-grass-tutorial-using-maya-fur
Basically, my planes is about 10x bigger so increasing density to about 1mil makes it still not enough (the grass is really bold) but the render is not really working as either maya crashes or it takes ages (tried to leave my 12 core mac pro over 2 hours and still no render).
What do you think would be the best way to do the grass for the scene? What else can I tweak in the grass setting to get really rich grass (not few grass hair every few cms)? I can't scale the scene as the models don't scale that well. :(
Any idea?
Or if you know how to tweak the render so it doesn't take ages or crashes that would really help too
Thank you very much.