This looks very close to being a photograph! The suspension of disbelief
lasted quite a while on this one :)
I think adding the dead grass was a very smart move.. its something you see
and take for granted in real life, but I havent seen this in any other grass
render!

Kudos,
George


"Slashdolt" <jer### [at] questsoftwarecom> wrote in message
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> I used Gilles Tran's makegrass macro to do this, but instead of just
running
> it once, I ran it twice.  I ran the macro once to make the "dead" grass,
and
> then changed the parameters and ran it again to make the green grass.
>
> For the dead grass, I simply caused it to bend more, and made it very thin
> and "spiney", as I've noticed most dead grass seems to be very thin.  It
> seemed to add tons more realism by doing this.
>
> I've thought further about adding more and more "layers".  For example
there
> could be a dead "mat" or "thatch" layer of grass at the very bottom,
laying
> mostly horizontal.
>
> Just some ideas...
>
> (Image created with basic settings, no radiosity, ambient 0.1, light
source
> is fairly low)
>
>
>

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