JohnArtbox Posted April 21, 2009 Posted April 21, 2009 Foliage is always one of those things that takes time. Fur works great but takes forever, however thanks to the team at hash adding the options for cookie cut decals to cast shadows there is a faster option. Here are a couple of tests. Rendering time was about 20 seconds a frame, with all the detail supplied by cookie cut flat planes and zbufffered lights. leaftest.mov leafBilboard.mov Quote
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted April 21, 2009 Hash Fellow Posted April 21, 2009 Those look great. I'm surprised there's a big difference in rendering time since a hair with an image is basically a cookie cut image too. Quote
KenH Posted April 21, 2009 Posted April 21, 2009 Wow. Looks dare I say, Vue-esque. The only quibble would be that they look too straight but perfect for mid to long distance. Quote
JohnArtbox Posted April 21, 2009 Author Posted April 21, 2009 Thanks guys Robert: Just had one of those "doh!" moments. Hair images didn't used to cast shadows based on the cookie image, but I just checked and obviously at some point between then and now the wizards at Hash have corrected that. Wish I'd thought to test that earlier, Hair makes for a much faster way to control the foliage. Quote
photoman Posted April 22, 2009 Posted April 22, 2009 On my current project Im delving into using some alpha pictures on a hair system too. Your method looks great so maybe Ill try that. Side note, when using a hair system with images, set the density in the particle system options to 1% or else it will take a LONG time to render, then work up. Photoman Quote
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