Here is my first attempt on using static particles instead of using the fiber 2.03:
Render with internel Blender with AO:
with wind:
Lawn grass that really needs cut:
Above is just a sectional of a whole lawn, to cut down the rendering time.
Got a .blend file?
Anychance of a quick tutorial?? screenshot etc
Looks good, could you tell us the number of particles for that one patch?
Quick and Dirty Tutorial:
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Start a new scene with a plane - (spacebar - > Add -> Mesh -> Plane)
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Press Tab to get into the object mode
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Press ‘1’ on keypad to switch to the front view
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Press ‘F7’ twice to get to the particles systems
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Click on NEW under Particles Tab
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Hold down Shift and click on the Amount
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Enter amount of 2000 Under Emit and press enter
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Click on Static then click on Mesh and Vect under Display
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Click on ParticleMotion
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Shift and click on Normal under Velocity and change it to .020
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Shift and click on Random under Velocit and change it to 0.014
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Shift and click on the Dampling under Velocity and change it to 0.30
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Change the Keys to 13 and Click on BSpline
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press ‘F5’ to go to Materials
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Click on Add New
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Click on Color Tab next to COL, and change the color to a nice green
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Click on SPE and change the RGB values to .300
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Click on Strands under Vcol Paint and change Start to 5.57 and End to .25
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Scale the model by value of 2.0 on all X,Y,Z directions, by pressing ‘S’ and scale with Left Mouse Click and drag while holding CTRL
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Press ‘F10’ and make sure the OSA is on and at 8
- Make sure that Ray, Shadow, and EnvMap is turned on
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Click on Render and wait for your grass to be rendered
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If you want to push the limits on your CPU then turn on the AO (Amibent Occlusion) under the world button ( which is the little blue world thingy) and turn the samples up to 10
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press ‘F12’ to render again
My Scene had to seperate patches of grass, one with different color and shorter blades with different varibles under Particles.
A .blend file will be up soon and a possible a PDF file with some screenshoots
If you detect any errors under the tutorial, then let me know and I will correct it.
Thanks
Voc007
the random setting seems to be wrong in your tutorial. also the scaling.
Thanks Tyaedalis,
Yeah the random suppose to be .014 not .14, and the scale was a bit to much, 2.0 would be better. Thanks for the input. I have updated the tutorial.
thanx alot! really helps.
can you share the material/texture settings you had for your dirt in the first one? was it all procedural?
I think the second is the best, I can’t figure out how to get that result… And for the blade length, you could also turn Rlife on, on the particle motion tab. But it wont work for the color…
The second one has two seperate planes with different settings, I will upload a link of the .blend. So you can take a look at it.
thanx, Iv been suffering, with results much worse…
Okay here is the .blend file, sorry it took awhile.
http://rapidsharing.com/download.php?id=98323B97
It is about 92k, so it is quite small
Let know if the link does not work
woohoo! i like it! id love an .pdf tutorial 
oh allso im giving 5 susannes to this thread!
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The dirt texture is just a seamless dirt texture loaded as a texture image and applied onto the plane, nothing special 
cheater… :-p
Here is a tutorial that I made last night, it is 1.7 mb :
http://rapidsharing.com/download.php?id=E5EE0F75
Hope it will make things easier to understand, since it has pictures
Good job Ubuntuud on the grass, just keep playing around on the settings.