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[hihosilver]

Wow!  Seriously?  I guess I just couldn't believe it the first time.  It must be the ART renderer then? (Or you have a very powerful computer!)  Well done, I like the latest with a bit of sand showing through as well.  Much more realistic, it looks very nice.

[cooldude234]

Well It mainly My processor, It's quade core 2 at 2.6GHz and 12mb cache (that 12mb is extreamly important!), In fact my video card is limiting my proccesors power, wich is why I need a new one, for the really big scenes.
I'm currently now working with trying to get a tree in this scene (mainly just tweaking now)

[$imon]

The short render time is probably because youre using 4 aa samples juding from the grainyness.. That adds the 'sand' texture as well. If you want a higher quality render (with other items in the scene) you might want to add a different texture to the gound if you want to do that ( can't see it now)

Nice tests though. Just a few notes to make the grass more realistic; All the strands have the same shade of green, a slight variation in it might look more realistic. Also, keep the scale of the strands small. I don't know what the scale will be with your tree so I can't judge on that yet.

Another thing; some other plants/blooming grass/dried hay.. anything to break up the grass depending on the situation will add realism.

Good luck!

[Jdez]

That looks amazing, the first one was a bit to ordered but the randomized one looks perfect. I think some differences in hight might help(some taller grass) but other than that it looks great.

[cooldude234]

The ground is actually not sand, it's dry dirt

[cooldude234]

Oh, and AA was set down lower, I think it might have been 9, but possibly 4, I mean it wasnt like I was giong to set it to my usuall 256 (Edit, ment to say 169, dont know why I typed 256???) AA (epecially when rendering buildings), But that would take years to render with this much polly

[floyd86]

Well It mainly My processor, It's quade core 2 at 2.6GHz and 12mb cache (that 12mb is extreamly important!), In fact my video card is limiting my proccesors power, wich is why I need a new one, for the really big scenes.
I'm currently now working with trying to get a tree in this scene (mainly just tweaking now)

Anim8or still doesn't support multiple cores...so the fact that it's a quad core doesn't really mind. A 2,6ghz single core will probably render just as fast as a 2,6 ghz quad core.

[rellik420]

how many polies in 1 blade of grass? and how many total in the scene?

[Arik_the_Red]

I still think it looks cool, even if floyd DID delete my post for a silly bit I had on it.

[floyd86]

I still think it looks cool, even if floyd DID delete my post for a silly bit I had on it.

huh? what post? 

[cooldude234]

rellik420 Ummm, I'll check.
Well it crashed when I went to check. I'll try again.
Well each blade has a poly of 13, and
the total amount of grass has a poly of 735282.

Floyd86: Anim8or still doesn't support multiple cores...so the fact that it's a quad core doesn't really mind. A 2,6ghz single core will probably render just as fast as a 2,6 ghz quad core.

It doent really matter that it's the quad core more so the fact that it has 12mb of cache

[Arik_the_Red]

I still think it looks cool, even if floyd DID delete my post for a silly bit I had on it.

huh? what post? 

awww... that must mean someone else took it out... I'd complimented the fine work, and asked "By the way... how long did it take to render? (heeheehee) "

Anyway. It definitely rates high on my "best lawn online" meter 

[cooldude234]

LOL, best lawn meter, hope your neighbor dosn't mind I took it from them.
Anyways I raise up the AA to about 16(Default I think), and it took about 2min this time, note the tree is unfinished and looks bad, but I might book a date to the park with my camera, go taking pictures of some trees and use them to make my tree.
Note: I was cursing like a sailor person, due to I need I new graphics card, and it renders frames nicley, but the preview is a pain in the (beep), so it crashed on me billions of times and took for ever to position the camera, and I need a valley done by monday!?!?!?!?! I got one heck of a weekend to pull this one off  

[cooldude234]

Could you tell us the process you used, if you don't mind?

ooops totally forgot about that, sorry.
Well as for the process, all I did was make a blade of grass, copied it a few times ran the mesh2mesh script and wa~la. All it really took was the tweaking of things thats all.

I have now aquired the power of the GRASS GOD!
I shall use it wisely with my powers of the FIRE GOD! STILL WATER GOD! RANDOM OBJECT SHATERING GOD! AND SO MUCH MORE GOD!

[TheRetroZombie]

nice, it looks realistic