Why does my grass look crap? Critique (MEGASCANS)

Bletzkarn

The first image is a composite of different MEGASCAN plant assets.



The second image is the default free grass preset that comes with Forest Pro.


Perhaps the first one is more realistic but the second one seems more appropriate from a visualisation perspective, where it's encouraged to make everything look cleaner, brighter and better than it is.

mickeyvpn

Forest pro sample looks much more dense. Perhaps if you seek bright and vivid look for the ground cover you can increase saturation for the albedo maps and add more chunks of grass too the scene.

Bletzkarn

100%, also the megascans one took 3x longer to render. Proably because the materials are far more complex.

Felixenfeu

I don't think it looks bad at all, I just feel it might lack variety a bit. In both plants type and colors. Unless it's artificial grass, usually it won't be that perfect looking imo.