I need all you guys to help me with improving my street scene :)

[thomthom]

Re: I need all you guys to help me with improving my street scene

You need to apply the opacity map.
VfSU doesn't read the transparency info from PNG files - so you must provide that as a separate grayscale image and add that to the Transparency slot in the Diffuse layer.

[mattcoops]

Re: I need all you guys to help me with improving my street scene

Sorry what image do i have to change to greyscale? and what material do i have to add it onto.. the general grass image diffuse transparency or the grass close up diffuse transparency?

[thomthom]

Re: I need all you guys to help me with improving my street scene

Those little 2D grass clipmaps. You see how they have transparency in the Sketchup view, but when you render they end up as green squares?

Basically, any diffuse texture with a transparent bitmap - you need to extract (not convert) the transparency from.

[remon_v]

Re: I need all you guys to help me with improving my street scene



You can put this in the transparantcy slot

[mattcoops]

Re: I need all you guys to help me with improving my street scene

you absolute star remon! thankyou ever so much! Ok, so i have finally got the grass working, now the question of how i actually get this grass onto my planes in visual... how do i go about doing this as it is not a simple case of adding a material and bump... cheers guys!!

[thomthom]

Re: I need all you guys to help me with improving my street scene

You can use the Component Spray plugin to scatter your grass component around. http://forums.sketchucation.com/view...?f=180&t=11746 (need to be logged in to download)

[fpedrogo]

Re: I need all you guys to help me with improving my street scene

Hi MattCoops
Your render is looking better and better. I can't wait to see another shot.

keep going!

Best

[mattcoops]

Re: I need all you guys to help me with improving my street scene

im back again!
Im having a slight problem lining up all the grass perfectly?! and hints/tips!?

Edit: Obviously those little bricks around the top sill of the bricks aren't supposed to be that small lol, the material must have reset.

[mattcoops]

Re: I need all you guys to help me with improving my street scene

As you can see here (i quit the render half way through) the grass is so tricky to lay down on the ground, espceially when the layer is not flat. any help ?

[Jackson_cg]

Re: I need all you guys to help me with improving my street scene

sorry Jackson, will post as .jpg next time.

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[mattcoops]

Re: I need all you guys to help me with improving my street scene

sorry Jackson, will post as .jpg next time.

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ha sorry Jackson! Just because i quickly wanted to post rendered one!