Need Design Suggestion: Field of Tall Grass...

[Laconic]

Hi!

 

I'd like to create an idyllic scene of a country field with a field of tall grass that has contains some grass elements that "undulate" in the wind.

 

This doesn't have to be completely realistic, and it seems that I'd only want to render a few "individual" blades of grass for the foreground.

 

Does anyone have an idea on what kind of technique I could use to create this tall grass? Would this be a "Hair"-type technique? a "Flocking"-technique?

 

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

 

Thanks,

 

Tim

[Ganthofer]

There have been some really nice images made with Hair. I'll see if I can find some. Try searching with "hair grass" (include the "" in the search string)

[Caroline]

There's a great grass tutorial at:

 

http://perso.orange.fr/ffave/e_herbes.htm

 

From there, you can change the photos to make different colours, and lengths. You can also tweak the length of the grass in the choreography, using the hair lengthening tool, and probably animate it there too, but I haven't tried that.

 

If you want different types of grass, you can use an image map for the hair, as described at:

 

http://www.hash.com/Technical_Reference/v110/Hair.htm

 

but that would be harder to make it bend in the wind, I think.

[clonewar12345]

Also you can turn dynamics on and animate a force moving in the coreography to simulate wind

[johnl3d]

grass.zip

 

 

grass.mov

 

very quick hair grass strip

 

v13s