Grassy field (how too?)

#32

Hey people,
Thought I’d chip in my 5 cents…I created some grass objects in LW then converted to vob, ( simple textures were applied to the objects, but you can change them to what ever you want) and used them in eco systems to find it worked fine, pretty much looks like sas. You can download the vobs and rendered images of the results.
Ivan.

http://rapidshare.de/files/24041132/Grass_VOBs.rar.html

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#33

looks pretty killer… I am still playing with methods of achieving ultra realistic grass. Even in sas the grass is not quite there. But I think that is in the lighting and my environment, Thanks for the tips.

#34

Actually Sas is right on the money. All you have to do is do lots of tests and tweaks. We’ve been able to get grass indistinguishable from the real thing when holding two images side by side. Using salt and pepper with Fractal reflections along with density gives you realistic dispersal and it’s incredible. It also helps to have a decent grass texture for the ground. Our first few attempts (okay… maybe a hundred or more) were off the mark, but in a few days we were able to get great grass. I was like you thinking that Sas wasn’t quite there yet - I was wrong. It most definitely is! :slight_smile:

Megalodon

#35

I wish there was a training dvd or tutorial out there for this. I would actually pay for a tutorial on making “uber-realistic” grass is sasquatch. Gonna keep at it.

#36

It seems that most hair/fur plugins deliberately seperate you from making good grass.
I just tried Shave for Maya and damn, it needed 3+ hours to get something decent.

Foreground grass on the first picture was definately Photoshopped. Nothing “natural” about the scale. ;D

#37

Sorry about the big bump . IvanB : can you post that Sas Grass again ? I am looking for a god grass for 2 days now. And that grass might be the thing.

#38 

 Here's a quickie I did using Lush grasses and 3 terrains. The only terrain with a grass ecosystem is the closest one, and it has a falloff map so the density and size falloff rather quickly from the camera. It's not too bad, but I do see it's a bit splotchy.

DOF added in Photoshop.
 
 -Chipp
#39

Here’s another one with a coloring a bit more like the original one. DOF added in Pshop.

#40

not bad chipp, it would just need alittle higher quality solidgrowth plant for the grass, linda´s solidgrowth grass is realy good, she´s one of my fav solidgrowth suppliers, but i think that for real closeup ones like your test render it would need alittle more quality atleast for the forefront.

hopefully real grass is easier to do real good in vue7 but it for sure is possible with v6 like you´ve shown yourself.

#41

Who is Linda?

#42

the maker of the solidgrowth plant series :slight_smile:

#43

How about this

This is the Trunk, 3 package from Cornucopia

#44

Or this quick test


By frozensun

The above is Wallie’s grass @ cornucopia, actually i prefer wallie’s grass over Linda but hands down her plants are the best.

#45

I hate you:thumbsup:

#46

Thanks. BTW the lighting was Ambient Base from my Spectral Skies 3 pack :wink:

#47

You mentioned earlier that only the closest terrain has the ecosystem. What kind of material did you use on the terrains in the background?

Very nice image, btw.

#48

Thanks. IIRC, the background texture is the basic grass, with the brown mixed layer removed.

#49

Thanks for the info.

It took me a while to figure out what “IIRC” meant. :smiley:

#50

Another example grass with vue:

#51

Have you writen any book on Vue?:thumbsup:
Wow!
This ones awesome!
What did you use?