does anyone remember this?
http://www.reyes-infografica.com/plugins/npr1.php
as you can see in the animation gallery they have a way of sticking a textured paint look onto objects themself i cant for the life of my find another plugin that does the same thing. this company went out of business a long time ago and the plugin was never updated 
same thing happened with my favotire grass-o-matic plugin
Have you seen this one?
Pencil+ and Liquid
yeah, seen it but not that impressed. compair these two
http://www.psoft.co.jp/files/gallery/movies/pencil.mpg
http://www.reyes-infografica.com/imagen/npr/avis/hatching.avi
see how NPR1 has its texture locked to the object. in the psoft NPR plugin i can get the same quality from a photoshop filtering process which isnt locked to the 3d object thats what impressed me about the reyes one
Yeah.. Big difference. Hrm.. what else is out there these days?
Da_Elf
This any use to you…?
why would grass o matic help him?
it was something i mentioned earlier and yes it helps biiiiig time. ive got a field of grass to do with animation and this is going to be a huge help
my laaaast resort to getting this hatching look would be to actually texture the model with a cross hatched texture in 4 or 5 different dencities then use a gradient with those textures set to solid gradient with some noise to randomise the edges between textures then set the mapping to “lighting”
break out your 64bit max for grass o matic! the mesh can get very heavy 
wonder how vray would handle the grass if i set my memory to automatic. the zip file has in the 64bit version of max too hehe
perfectly well, i was using it earlier today
Hopefully its faster than VrayFur for grass!