Vray fur grass testing

[simmsimaging]

Hi all -

I've been messing around with Vray fur and displacement methods of doing grass - here is the image I developed while working in it. It's mostly Vray fur, but there is a *bit* of displacement grass in there to help fill in some gaps. The leaves are Pflow with image mapped planes. I actually spent the time to setup 40 different leaves - but you can't tell in this crop

The background (including the grass in the background) is photographic. I was going for a sort of hyper-real/surreal kind of look and am happy with the way that turned out.

Feedback is always apppreciated!

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[glorybound]

fur

I love it! I have to try that pflow thing.

[exagero]

Good test!!!

Congratulations!
Very good image, the light and render.

[Timmeh]

Great image, I also must try pflow!

The foreground grass matches the background colour really well, and the lighting is also very good.

GREAT!


Cheers,

[simmsimaging]

Thanks glorybound, exagero, and Timmeh! I have only the most basic grasp of Pflow, but it's handy for this kind of thing and it didn't take long to setup.

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[Shimakaze]

Gaah annoying! Why can other people get VrayFur to look so damn good and I can't even fill a square plane without it crashing?
Must be karma.... or stupidity

[DrJan]

Gaah annoying! Why can other people get VrayFur to look so damn good and I can't even fill a square plane without it crashing?
Must be karma.... or stupidity

I second that...

[simmsimaging]

Thanks guys.

It took a quite a bit of playing around for me to get something I liked. In the end it's 3 Vray Fur objects with a single source object. Attached are the settings for the ground grass. I used the same 3 for the bench, just tweaked the parameters to neaten it up a bit. Some tweaks in post go a long way too though.

A simple grass material seemed to be all that was needed, but I used a Vray BlendMat with a glossier/shinier coating as well so I could adjust the "freshness" of the grass up and down a bit later on. I think I used one of DaForce's mats/maps as the base.

Also - using a slightly displaced grass mat on the source object helped fill in the gaps so I could use a bit less density in the fur. I rendered without GI to speed things up, but it was rendering with GI okay - just sloooooowwww.

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