Realistic Moss?

Playdo

Anyone got any tips for making realistic moss (Max+MR)? It's not for a game but for a close up still so I need as realistic as poss.

arrangemonk

all that comes to my mind at the moment is fur shells or decorator/scatter wih some fuzzy moss mesh mith the normals facing upwards

divi

moss is all about subsurface scattering. make a properly scaled SSS material combined with a decent mesh like arrangemonk said (not too sure about the normals facing upwards though) and you should be ~90% there. if you don't enjoy the long render times you can try to fake it with a material thats brighter at the edges (fresnel), but if it's really close up then that won't cut it.

arrangemonk

i meant the normals of the moss mesh which is duplicated, with the normal in one direction it behaves like the place where it sits when it comes to lighting
i dunno if its a good advice but in games it worked everytime

Playdo

So a HP mesh with an SSS material. I've never used SSS but I'll look into it. Is Bump+Spec needed?