Wind problem with Grass

Hi all, i’ve been trying to get this to work for a few days now, heres a screenshot of my grass: http://i.imgur.com/TjEEe.png

I’ve set up a Wind force to the left of it angled slightly down onto the scene ( about 10 degrees ). I’ve got the wind keyframed to rotate from side to side flowing wind across my scene. When i render it out to animation my grass seems to be vibrating and it falls a little bit. I have not found a tutorial anywhere for wind on grass in 2.5 that goes into details.

Should i have Hair Dynamics enabled? and if so what settings should i be altering? How strong should my wind be? in a tutorial i did on flags the strength was 600, in this i’ve set it to 5 and it seems to still be too strong. It’s as though the springyness of my grass is wayyyyyyyyy too high.

Any ideas?

thanks

in this file(it’s not mine) you can see some settings with wind.
http://www.pasteall.org/blend/8302

thanks a lot! giving it a try now with new settings, will post a vid of my result

use material displacement instead of wind I would suggest.

did u ever find out how to animate the grass, i am having trouble with animating the grass and the flowers and other objects in the scene like a tree and sunflower.