Can anyone tell me of a good tutorial or a good way to produce realistic looking grass? More specifically the short grass seen at golf greens or tee boxes?
Yes, take a picture of some grass, from top view. Load it into the GIMP (if you have a GIMP) and apply the effect ‘make seamless’. then just load it onto your mesh in the texture buttons, once you have added a material to your surface. if you haven’t tried this before, slect the button ‘image’, then use the browse feature, also in the texture buttons, or load it into the UV editor, and when you go to browse, it will be there waiting.
Hmm, don’t have the GIMP. Is there another way to make this type of realistic grass? It is a very small scene so it is not necessary to keep the scene simple.
Yes, there are a few ways. One way is to make some elongated triangles, or rows of them, of slightly different size, coloration, etc., and start duplicating them. once you have a few, you join them, and duplicate the bunch. Also, if you want, I can put up a premade grass texture for you. Additionally, there are a few DXF meshes in that catagory, which you can import into blender simply by clicking on F1 and then selecting the mesh. (not shiftF1) It will load directly into your scene.
DXF meshes? I don’t think I’ve ever heard of them before.
Yeah, try the 3-D cafe for a start,…I know there are some sites that are strictly plants, so you might search around for one of those,…but here is the thing: If you load a DXF, always select all your vertices in edit mode, and click on ‘remove doubles’ in the edit buttons. They usually have over 100 doubles, which will bog down your machine. Oh, and you can do the same with VRML meshes. (also called WRL)
Get ‘Grass.blend’ from this site:
http://awalker.freeservers.com/Blender/script.html
or go to the python forum and look in the script list for ‘Fibre’ script.
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This site has some great plants, and alot of other models as well as some textures===>
maybe it’d be right to say that the GIMP is a free tool (just like blender is) www.gimp.org …there’s some slight difference with photoshop, so read a basic manual, before you flame it :]
The Gimp rules! I HIGHLY suggest RipStrings Fiber Generator. New version 2.02 is out! w00t! search the python forum for it.
dante