Tiling Grass Tutorial

m4dcow

So someone asked me to do a workflow video on how I was making some tiling grass and I figured I would post it here.

Something was up with my capture settings, and I didn't want to re-do the whole thing, so the video is a bit glitchy, but I figured it might be of use to someone.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7LgAZ6FbSA"]Tiling Grass Tutorial - YouTube[/ame]

David Wakelin

Great tutorial, I was looking for something like this; However how would i gain a normal map and AO etc from this to really make it pop?

Also seeing as your quite skilled at foilage :P could you please make a tutorial on how to create some different foilage types in maya/zbrush?

JustinSlick

Ah, awesome man! I'm gonna work through this tonight or tomorrow... gives me an excuse to finally install the Bonus Tools : )

Thanks for recording this!

m4dcow

David Wakelin wrote: »

Great tutorial, I was looking for something like this; However how would i gain a normal map and AO etc from this to really make it pop?

The reason I tried this method out is that xNormal and maya take a really long time to bake AO for meshes like this, and it doesn't come out very well. For AO, I would just fill the meshes with white, and do the same thing I do at the end of the video. You can also use the different matcaps to get a normal, diffuse, alpha maps etc (probably better to split those out anyway).

Personally I don't think normal maps work well on grass, this type of grass anyway.

Oniram

great tutorial. thanks for sharing

R00

Great tut m4dcow!

paradoxical-pixel

Very nice. I like your technique.

BradleyWascher

Very nice man, Thanks for sharing

Tobbo

Cool. Thanks for sharing!