Re: I need all you guys to help me with improving my street scene 
Looks better, yes. Though the grass seem out of scale from the rest of the model.
Some other textures on the roads would complete it. CGTextures got loads of good road textures to sample from.
Re: I need all you guys to help me with improving my street scene
sorry Jackson, will post as .jpg next time.
How do i go about changing the lighting to the front model? spin in round to face other way? or change lighting times in the shadow settings? Also all the materials i created in this scene are from images on cgtextures, im not too sure why the tarmac is like that as i did find a good tarmac material, may need to enlarge the texture for more detailā¦ with the grass, i used the uv mapping environment thing that I found on thi forum somewhereā¦ again i may have to play around with the texture.. make it smaller for more detail or something as its a little blurry i must admit.
cheers guys for your help so far! Im learning!
Re: I need all you guys to help me with improving my street scene
For the light, just adjust the shadows in SU so they fall differently. Might be easiest to just rotate teh north angle in your model.
Ah, itās the Micah method - yea I donāt think youāll be able to adjust the size of the grass then. I have often not been able to use that texture because the grass ends up looking too big. Iāve not been able to get hold of any other grass environments.
Re: I need all you guys to help me with improving my street scene
yeh sorry thomthom i realised how to do shadow straight after i posted, rendering the model now, just span the whole lot around.
I think grass is the hardest thing to do in sketchup for vray. Next to impossible, yeh thats the one! The micah method, oh can we not resize it then? What do you suggest for the grass then, should i do all of that after the image has rendered?
Re: I need all you guys to help me with improving my street scene
I usually add grass in post.
Did you have a look for FreeAgent and TOM 's images here on this forum?
Re: I need all you guys to help me with improving my street scene
hey you could use grass planes aswellā¦ this one I find good, but you have to make an ALPHA map to make it work:
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=7855528f6b0f76e9440b5e85fc05fc55&prevstart=12
also the roofgutter is too small and black. I would make it a bit bigger and give it a grey color.
Re: I need all you guys to help me with improving my street scene
hey,
yeh i saw this Kwistenbiebelās grass, i tried to apply it last week and just couldnāt do itā¦ it wasnt rendering properly, and i dont quite understand it.. 
ok thanks for noticing that, i will change the drain pipes as well.
Re: I need all you guys to help me with improving my street scene
hey Iām sure we can help with the grassā¦ just post a screenshot of your render and settings maybe
Re: I need all you guys to help me with improving my street scene
He already has posted screenshotsā¦
Re: I need all you guys to help me with improving my street scene
Here is a screenshot of what is happening. I can see some grass peeping through the render, and i have updated and reloaded the images in vray.. but i obviously have to reapply a texture/material somehwhereā¦ any help please guys? been great help so far!
Re: I need all you guys to help me with improving my street scene
You need to apply the opacity map.
VfSU doesnāt 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.
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?
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.
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 visualā¦ how do i go about doing this as it is not a simple case of adding a material and bumpā¦ cheers guys!!
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. [Plugin] Component Spray Tool 1.3. | sketchucation (need to be logged in to download)
Re: I need all you guys to help me with improving my street scene
Hi MattCoops
Your render is looking better and better. I canāt wait to see another shot.
keep going!
Best
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 arenāt supposed to be that small lol, the material must have reset.
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 ?
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