grazing sheeps - grass mats for vray

[metroberlin]

some asked me for the grassmat i used for my last project. mostly the material is from GONCALOP and DANIELE (hope this is right). i just tweaked some mappings and settings. i created a matlib with 3 different grass-styles. also a testscene to see the settings. the scene didn´t turn out like i wanted it, but i´m sure you guys out there know what i mean and work it out a better way. it was just a quick thing.

the zip-file is a little large (8.5 mb). mostly because of the mappings. i hope my provider won´t kill me. we will see..




Grass matlib and scene (max 5.1)


have fun.....

[natty]

.........Nice one.........

Natty

[DP]

cheers

what are the render times like?

[Psy]

if you need me to, i can mirror it for you.

p.s. thanks!

[metroberlin]

thanks, we will se what se provider will say hope i don´t hear from him....

as i said, the testscene isn´t that good. thought it would be funny using sheeps, but the mesh isn´t that good for it. also i think the grass looks too high. the matlib ist allright i think. i´m sure you can do better stuff with it than this )

[metroberlin]

oh, rendertimes....hmmm....i think okay. when it´s too high, change the details of the displacement back to 8 f.e. the scene is just a hint, no rendertest it´s not optimized for fast rendering

[Sebastiaan]

Hey thanks a lot man!! Definitely gonna use these for the coming projects at work. My boss is going to be so amazed

Sebastiaan.

[DP]

just did a quick test...droped some of the GI settings down and removed the right one, but a 1000x750 render took 4 mins (without antialiasing) on a 2.2 p4m...so not too bad...

its certainly a starting point, the trick will be to see how much work it needs for a high res larger scene

cheers

[Sebastiaan]

I did a test too. Opened the scene and pressed render.
Rendertime: 24 minutes (pentium4 2,5Ghz)
But I guess if you tweak the settings you can speed up the render times...

[natty]

metroberlin
is that normal practise to put the Displacement modifier after the UVWmap modifier........

i ask cos im new to vray displacement.........

[metroberlin]

i think it´s equal.....before or after....

[natty]

i do find you get more control over the mapping of the displacement map, if its before ?

[metroberlin]

i see, you all will get deeper into that stuff as i did

[andrius]

Well I'm sure it'll render quicker than Maya fur, and Paint Effects for that matter.

[DP]

i dropped hsph subdivs to 15 and interp to 15, gi was on -3,-3 AA was off