Got this GREAT idea for a scene but its going to require hedges. Any suggestions on how to make them? Am I going to have to use terrains? John

PS: when is the closing date?

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might try over at drew's site

Hedges are EASY!! All you do is build the rest of your scene, or put in primitives where you want your larger objects to go (the things the hedges will go around). It's easier if the render is 512x512 or 1024x1024. Then, do an altitude render of that scene. Take your altitude render into your 2D paint program, and draw your hedges in a separate layer. Just paint them in (in white) for width and layout. Then,taking a thin black brush, scratch the living daylights out of them. Save that layer (just that layer)as your new hedges terrain. Bring it back into your scene as a terrain. Adjust the height, and use something like one of the foliage materials on it, and you have hedges.

PS, closing date is the end of the month. And, everything in that post is either a primitive or a terrain. And, no it wasn't finished yet, and yes I will finish it someday.

thanking you, froods! i'm good at landscapes.... sort of! John

By the way ... this is the terrain I used for my main hedge around the house.

interesting way of doing it, i was going to have a solid lump. is it a homemade texture or did you use a preset? John

One of the presets. There are two of them ... I think they are in "Misc" and they are called foliage.

useful! i was dreading having to come up with a texture for them. btw, how did you close the ends or are yours open ended?

oh! i get it, i get it! nevermind i understand what you've done now! silly me! John

Close the ends?? Oh, you just make the terrain a solid. In the terrain editor, there is a little arrow up to the right of the preview window. You click on that and you'll see an option to make the terrain a solid. That way the ends are already closed for you.

oops a cross post there!

Yeah .... You just draw the hedge in as you would a map. You're looking at it from the top. The nice thing is, you can make as many terrains as you like (each in its own layer) and then texture each one a little differently (I like to make some of them flowering plants by changing the dot color in the foliage material -- by default it's green, so I make it yellow or red or something like that). Then, I just place the first terrain, copy it, and edit the copy by putting another one of the layers in as the picture. I end up with a perfectly placed garden.

For example, here's an arial shot of a formal garden I did a few years ago using this technique. All the hedges and other plants are terrains. Actually, so are the benches.

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I had once used Sams3D brick walls as hedges, then post-worked them to look more rough. AgentSmith

Neat. Of course they aren't in the free stuff anymore.

What texture did you use for your grass?? It looks really good!

that grass is stunning and so is the headge. very garden maze! my hedges will only seen from a distance so i think i'll just use the terrain method, but thanks for the suggestion SAS. you might be wondering why i added the extra S, thats because you are Elite (possibly l33t) ;] ok crap idea. sorry. while i am here any free models of sheep, cows, farm gates or tractors knocking about? they aren't essential but would be nice. Thanks again folks John

Rofl.."SAS"... Both the textures on the hedge and the ground are picture textures, I had gotten some for free off a 3D World Mag CD, and I was going nuts with them at the time. The actual shape of the hedge is postworked to give the edges a rougher look. But, a Bryce volumetric could be made to emulate this texture, I'm quite sure. Not in freestuff? You could easily make those shapes as terrains. AS

Well, yeah, I know that. If anyone was likely to make a terrain hedge it would be me. But, as far as brick walls (and hedges with those textures and postwork) go, they looked really nice.