Comments on: The Secret to Creating Realistic Grass

By: grumpyestonian

grumpyestonian — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 08:30:13 +0000

Nice tutorial. Everything’s coming out great except the flowers. For some reason, they don’t appear in the grass. They’re all floating randomly in air. As far as I can tell, the only way in which I’ve deviated from the tutorial is only putting one version of the flower in the group. Also, I’m getting an odd hazy area in the foreground corner- a lightening in the shadows. Any idea what is causing either of these phenomena?

By: Riptyde

Riptyde — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:49:28 +0000

Andrew…
I’m trying this tutorial on 2.5 after going through it in 2.49. and I’m missing something. Any chance you’d be welling to share your 2.5 version that you just did (noted in an earlier post on the 21st). I’d like to compare what I’ve been doing.

The issue I’m dealing with is in either the material or texture.

Thanks

Rip

By: 3dma semester 2 » Blog Archive » Week 4 particles

3dma semester 2 » Blog Archive » Week 4 particles — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:58:14 +0000

[...] a past tutorial, as i think it gives the best grass effect. the tutorial is by blenderguru: http://www.blenderguru.com/the-secret-to…. i have used this technique before in my post on advanced grass. the main technique that is used is [...]

By: Maria

Maria — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:55:18 +0000

Thanks, I made some dunes

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DtkRYe4Iu1I/S4Ivrqdh7GI/AAAAAAAACNQ/LXCjLWkyg8U/s1600-h/06grass-dunes4-800.jpg

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:55:38 +0000

Forgot the link, sorry about that. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMEnbosFo90

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:54:28 +0000

Great tutorial. Here is an animation I did using the tutorial, I even rendered it to my iPod using your other tutorial.

By: Fred

Fred — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:19:48 +0000

Great tutorial dude! Need more of these…There just so much to learn and not enough instructional videos. ha. Everything looks great except my flowers are showing up in the camera view but not when I render. When I render they’re not there? any idea as to what’s happening?

By: Andrew Price

Andrew Price — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 07:09:04 +0000

@Lorne
I’m quite surprised to hear of your rendertimes. Just last night I created grass in 2.5 and it rendered super fast! Could you upload your .blend so I can see it?

You can upload it to: http://www.pasteall.org/blend/

By: Lorne

Lorne — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:46:52 +0000

Thanks for this great tutorial Andrew. I ran into a couple of problems as I am doing this in 2.5 and some of the settings are a little different, but my biggest problem is the render times.

It took 5 -20 minutes to render 1 frame with 12 GB of ram.

Is there any way to create grass in Blender that renders faster? I am willing to tradeoff some of the realism for faster render times. Is it possible to render grass faster maybe using another method? Just curious.

Thanks

By: Eric Nondahl

Eric Nondahl — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:06:02 +0000

Added some defocus and it’s a lot better:

http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/310/render3g.jpg