Pine Straw Mulch

[glorybound]

Do you have any idea how to do this? It's strange to me, but it is their standard mulch.

[glorybound]

FYI, I used this, but they said it looks nothing like pine straw mulch.

https://www.itoosoft.com/library/for...ts-mulch/straw

[fixeighted]

This would do it with a little more work. Tyflow of a few extracted bits of straw from that straw mesh.

[Vizioen]

That is just horrendous. Why would anyone want that in their garden...?

[fixeighted]

Hmm...American...architectural 'style'...horrendous....surely not?! (excluding FLW and a few others ofc )

[glorybound]

Who knows, but it is a thing. I don't use tyflow, but will look into it. Thanks!

[fixeighted]

There's a free version which will serve just fine, so you may as well. You can do it with particle flow too if you want...should be almost exactly the same process
of a few sticks as shapes and birthed in a volume of the hedge shape. The simplest of simplenesses

[sirio76]

I think you can get very close to that look using Vray fur

[fixeighted]

True enough. A bit more of a faff to set up and tweak though, plus more tricky to differ the heights precisely where needed.

[glorybound]

I told her that she needed to set her expectations on what could be 100% accurate. I used the Forest Pro straw, scaling up to 150% and running it through AI using a mask; she still wasn't happy. She said more fluffy! How would fluffier straw make an image better? I don't know.

[fixeighted]

Did you offer a version using one of the suggestions above? They come very close to the reference imo

[LeePuznowski]

Chaos Scatter should be able to do this easily. Just model one of the straws and use an array modifier in 3dsmax to create a bundle of them. Then scatter to your hearts content. I use this technique for microscopic fabric fibers and it works quite good.

Edit: I also use Tyflow in most projects, but I don't think it can handle as many instances needed to make that "fluff" work well. Scatter can handle billions.

[glorybound]

Did you offer a version using one of the suggestions above? They come very close to the reference imo

Forest Pro comes close, so I don't think anything will be suitable. I scaled the Forest Pro in the Z cord, which got fluffier.

[LeePuznowski]

The biggest issue is probably your instanced model. Just model a quick pine needle as the pine mulch isn't actually straw (stalks of grain) as in the itoo asset. If the client is that picky about it.