Got grass? For finish an exterior render project like this usually a realistic grass is a must. But how to do it? In 3d studio max there is a simple shader to make it, in maya the plugin for make the grass is included in maya. Watch this video tutorial to understand how to make photorealistic grass in maya in 3 simple steps.
In this demonstration we go through creating an plane with normalized UV for seeding the Maya fur grass. Am using Maya 2012, but the function are the same since Maya 8.5.
y the maya fur to the plane.
- setup the maya fur: base color, top color, density, scale.
- Try a first render test.
- Fixing some additional parameters.
- Apply some flowers with the visor's flower paint effects.
- apply some trees, in the background for complete the scene.
The grass will be light and with poor tile effect:
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You will be super satisfied with the Maya Fur grass preset - but yeah, depending on your computer and settings, it can really increase your render time a little bit. |
| The second part of this tutorial will show you how to create growing flowers from the maya visor library, the flowers will gradually randomly grow up and will retain their original status when they reach to growing limit. Unfortunately if we using mental ray, it not show the paint effects in render, and we have to convert paint effects to polygons or nurbs surfaces. It will convert with shader and textures. |
