Gannon: thanks for the suggestions, they're really helpful. The noisy texture issue is definitely being dealt with right as I write this, will need to look at the shapes again. Thanks once more! JWalk: oh yeah, sorry, my bad, I missunderstood you :) . I did use fibermesh once or twice, but never for foliage. I've already…
I really love your textures personally. Are there any good tutorials on the internet in order to create these? I really have to learn this for my current project :D
Just saw the Fanny Vergne thread/mini tutorial. What does she mean by compositing the maps in photoshop? Is she combining the normal/AO, and height map somehow, than paints over them? I've been thinking about trying to give this method a try.
You guys are helping me so much here, thanks very much! I`m currently working on the lighting, because it was just not working and looking as I wanted it to. Taking into account what you guys said, the scene is already starting to look better... still a lot of work left, though :) . Meanwhile, here are some more textures…
JWalk: sorry, I just noticed I forgot to answer your question.. my bad :( . The grass texture base was created in Max. What I did was set up my grid to match a 512x512 system. I created some grass blades and then used them with the Object Paint tool to scatter them around the top and left edge of my ground plane. Then I…