Grass

Tulkamir

Hey, I was wondering what the best technique is for making grass and stuff in Maya(or 3d in general). I'm making a high res fly-through of a scene that is in the praries, so I need to figure out a way to make some prarie grasses.

Thanks for the help.

FatAssasin

Using a hair plugin usually works pretty good.

Keg

I'd say using particles with an instance to a flat plane with a grass texture , but hair would look alot better. depends on what version of maya you have.

Tulkamir

Hmmm... I have Maya 6.5 complete, and can't find the hair menu. Is it in unlimited only or something?

And if so, for the particals, you wouldn't know of any good tutorials would you? Never used em before.

Thanks.

Scott Ruggels

Hair is part of Maya:Unlimited, which is the $6000.00 version of the software, so you will have to find another way.

Scott

vahl

maya complete has grass paint effects..you can make your own tho, and convert them into polygons

Tulkamir

Damn, the place I work is getting unlimited, but not until after this project is due and I'm gone.

And yea, I looked at the grass paint effects... but I could only get them to go in a single line of grass, how do I get that to cover area?

Thanks again.