mikepc opened this issue on May 04, 2010 · 11 posts
Rutra posted Wed, 05 May 2010 at 4:35 AM
Quote - The grass used in Rutra's tutorial
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/index.php?user_id=94819
Yes, that's one of the grass types (grass collection 1). One word of warning regarding the usage of this pack:
Some of the materials have a sum higher than 100% in the diffuse and ambient components (under the Effects tab). Normally, the sum should be 100% for a "normal" material. When the sum is higher than 100%, you can get a washed out effect in certain light conditions (namely if the general ambient light is very high).
In practice, whenever I use that grass collection, I almost always lower the diffuse and ambient components to match the specific lighting of my scene.
Another word of advise regarding the usage of this pack: probably because of its fairly high polycount (when compared to other grass packages), it renders fairly slow. The good side of this is that it looks great on close ups (as you can see in several of my renders). The down side is that if you cover a whole terrain with it, you'll have big render times. In practice, I many times mix this grass with other packages, because of this.
Anyway, this is a great package and I use it a lot. Many thanks to Lars "bigbraader" for it. :-)