When I do Architectural Viz in Max, displacements, bumps and har are pretty much what you use for grass most of the time. Most of the time though, our grass is freshly mowed background lawn grass.

Most of the up close plants other then grass is done by panels and few procedual plants. On static images, very often plants are photosimulated (postwork)!

Hi Anton, good to see you around :)

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Hi, my name is "No, Bad Kitteh, NOO", what's yours?