Making a huge field of wheat

[chris7801]

Hi, how can i make a very huge field of grass or wheat?
i tried paintFX, but rendering times and workflow are very slow. does anyone has an idea?

[joojaa]

Well, having huge amounts of anything will impact performance... How much mem do you have?

you could however use sprites or imageplanes for this... it depends on the quality you need!

[victormartins]

You can grab a poly plane or a nurbs plane and paint some grass on it with the paint effects, and then multiply that plane over and over again, as long as your mem can handle it. It looks nice unless you want to see them from above

[chris7801]

I have 1GB memory, but the scene is a crane shot from 20m above to the ground always looking to the horizon.
Perhaps there is any copositing solution.

[jtk77]

would it work for you it make the forground and composite layers to extend the background?
Or create sections and then compiste them?
thats the way to go in a HUGH scene that you can't handle all as one.

[ragecgi]

I have the same type of shot coming up as well, and I'm investigating the method of instancing PFX strokes to particles.

Basicly, I'm gonna try making a semi-dense particle grid that covers my landscape, and after adding some gravity, and making the particles fall and collide with the terrain, freeze the particles, and instance my PFX "grass" stoke to all of the particles to make a field of grass.

Not sure if it will help, but ya might wanna try it.

If you look in the Dynamics docs under particle instanceing/replacement, theres a PFX instancing doc that I was going to reference in order to help me try that.

Lemme know how it goes:)

[thematt]

why not fur???..it works good to make some grass

cheers

[ragecgi]

Because I've never worked with it yet.
I do more environments, and hard surface stuff, and I'm just now getting hardcore into particles, pfx, and eventualy, fur:)
Thanks for the idea! Is there a fur grass tut around here somewhere?