POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Double Layering Grass [170KB] : Re: Double Layering Grass [170KB] Server Time
13 Aug 2024 21:18:01 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Double Layering Grass [170KB]  
From: Janne
Date: 24 Jan 2003 07:00:00
Message: <3e312ac0@news.povray.org>
"Slashdolt" <jer### [at] questsoftwarecom> kirjoitti

> 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)
>
>
>
That is the best grass i've ever seen done with pov! Add weeds, fallen
leaves and more dead grass and it could be from my garden:)

I've also made some tests with Gilles Tran's makegrass macro using multiple
layers of grass.
My goal was to make natural forest scene (long grass, weeds etc.) using
makegrass and
maketree macros.
I never finished the project because my computer ran out of memory after few
trees
(At the time i had only 32 mb of ram).

If I remember correctly both images have 3 layers of grass each layer has
different width, height and color  . First image is a part of the original
forest scene. To the second closeup I've tried to add some broad leaved
plants (with bad success as you can see) and randomly scattered leaves.

Janne


Post a reply to this message


Attachments:
Download 'new-1.jpg' (66 KB) Download 'new-2.jpg' (80 KB)

Preview of image 'new-1.jpg'
new-1.jpg

Preview of image 'new-2.jpg'
new-2.jpg


 

Copyright 2003-2023 Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.