Procedural Grass Mats

[Morbid Angel]

let me pull up my calculator here...
lets see...for this grass set that i had, there is 35000 individual hairs totalling to 2100000...which is 21 million poly.
Now if you take a plane and subdivide it 256 times.....anyways it will me trilions of polys.

[DaForce]

I think you mean 2.1 Million polys.
Also i would get your calculator checked out

[meanadam]

Uh... Vray Fur? Hello? Vray Forums?

Has gravity and number of knots.
Can achieve the same as those hair ones.

And I think it is fast - but haven't used max7+ hair.

[percydaman]

vray fur is great too. though it has far less control then the hair packages. I suppose if your going the geometry route like that, Id go for the approach that gave me the most control.

[Morbid Angel]

here is another approach. Particle emitted grass onto a plane
7 min per frame with quasi for both bounce