Wow this looks awesome. I will publish a short intro video and a tutorial for the camera culling feature once I officially release it. I already uploaded it simply because it always takes so long and I had some free time and thought I’d let the community know.
I’m so happy to see Graswald being used for things like that, this looks amazing 
Which species did you use for this?
I saw this ’ Large Scale features’ on twitter but I still dont know what it is. I did however update graswald pro and played around with it and scatter … its great, no doubt.
Thank you Julius!
This is a 100x100m terrain. I just used a lot of Generic Grass Blades (with the LOD’s is easy to handle) in combination with some Creeping Bentgrass and Orchad Grass flowers. I could have work it more but it was just a stress test and finally make some quick color grading in Photoshop.
Can’t wait for the official release!
).How did you fix it?
I think a ran into this issue with the latest 1.3 release on Blender 2.83.
Every time I hit F12 Blender crashes.
That fix is included in the current 1.3
You can check the species of plants (some are naturally pretty large), but they should be to scale (at least with scene scale = 1, and all graswald scales set to 1), and the ones I checked are fine. If a particular species seems too long though, do let us know.
We will keep this in mind. There is no easy way to do this with blender’s current particle system, but we are exploring workarounds.
Graswald integration with scatter add on is the bomdiggidy!
Graswald and Graswald Pro 1.3 are now officially released, and I wanted to take the time to quickly layout all the new features that we added.
Graswald Pro 1.3.0
Large Scale Features
LOD System:
We added a total of 645 new models to Graswald Pro (including Clump models, low-res models, and proxy models). This increases the number of individual models that ship with Graswald Pro to 1,259.
Camera Culling Feature
Systems can now be assigned viewport colors (synchronize w/ all systems sharing a material)
Other Changes
With the large scale update finally behind us, Julius and I are once again looking to the future, planning the next big update–Environments. The goal of Graswald has always been to simplify working with high quality plant models, and this update is no different. This update will introduce another layer of abstraction to make working with our assets even easier, and help get your scenes started faster.
In short, an Environment is group of systems on a single emitter that can interact with each other. (Eg: Meadow, Lawn). By adding an environment, you can instantly set up a field, a lawn, or any other… well… environment. Environments can also expose abstract properties–like season–or properties that are useful to share between systems–like density or vertex groups–etc.
With this basic idea of what an environment could be, we are looking for your input as to what you all would like to see in the environment update.
That sounds great!
Perhaps a nice workflow with as u say presets for environments. Quick lawns already optimised or quick grassfielda qith random flowers, also optimesed and ready to just render!
I also have both the latest version of Scatter and Graswald Pro installed, and I don’t see ‘Scatter’ as a scattering option.
I also think that the plants are too big by default and I’m wondering if this is something in the Blender config. I.e. generic grass blades are ~ 50cm tall with scale 1 for me.
And yes, environments will be a great feature. I don’t know which plants go together at what scale and density, but I do know I’d like a spring lawn, or an autumn meadow, etc. Scatters ‘one click biomes’ are almost ideal (Graswald has better models though).
I tried to scan through the whole thread but, can someone fill me in on if Graswald is able to be easily converted to Octane render material?
Cheers
Chris
Currently you can do this manually: after you’ve loaded the materials into the scene you can just edit them to use Octane nodes.
If you PM me a console screenshot, etc, we can try to debug this issue
Hi Kareem & Julius,
little question - I had a project which got extremely big and complex. It started to create some performance issues. So I had to append all the collections into a new blend file. Which sorted out those problems.
BUT - after appending all the collections and objects Graswald doesn’t work properly any more. All the particle systems are still there, including the wind animations. But they do not show in the Graswald menu. Actually nothing can be chosen in the Graswald menu. All the submenus are empty. There is clearly something wrong.
I also tried to append a Graswald emitter object alone. Same result.
Is this a known issue? Can’t Graswald objects be appended?
Or is there a workaround?
Btw, I’m working with Blender 2.83 (RC1) on MacOs Catalina. (64GB RAM)
This is what the Graswald menu looks like after appending…there seem to be invisible ghosts of the systems. But nothing shows.
To import something in Graswald, you have to import the scene. Then you can in the right-click menu choose Graswald->copy to scene-> which will then essentially move the selected objects from the imported scene to another scene if that’s what you wanted.
Hi Kareem,
it would be awesome if there would be as well a number of typical garden plants (Roses, Tulips and similar in the add-on.) Close to buildings in ArchViz you find that very often and it adds to realism & the beauty of the scene.
Seasonal changes surely help too. Botaniq does offer that nicely for their trees. Even with snow.
I always get this issue, even without appending or anything, the settings just disappears. why is that?? Its rly disturbing 
Hi. Is it possible to override the material to a white diffuse. I am sure it is, but somehow the material slot seems to be only responding to the grass material.
