Grass'O'Matic 3.0

Well, what people want to see in games isn't what they've in front of their own house, that leads to the fact that long grass is much more popular than short grass. And about the realism, the grass around the countryhouse where I used to live was about 1.5 meters high

Thats pretty cool. Another idea with this is to change it to trees and you can generate a forest with the same method.

Also, being able to change the color of the grass would be awesome, that way we can change the realism, have dead grass, or even bright pink grass!

Bad talking :

i really prefer Oblivion grass , this one looks more like furr , it seems t obe too thin for me

but good work , i really would prefer 3DGS to have a real grass system like the one of Titan Quest Editor

That's pretty amazing,well done

The height of the grass depends on the season, species, fertility of the soil, and whether it has been grazed/mown or not. Maximum height of some hybrid Bermuda grass or Buffalograss is about 2 inches (5 cm). Some of the tallgrasses of the American praries are about 2 meters, and tropical grasses like Cogan Grass will grow higher than two meters. Common pasture grasses like Timothy, Brome, Orchardgrass will easily grow to 1.5 meters. So the height of the grass is really a matter of taste, and the environment you are trying to simulate.

I agree with you pappenheimer.

the most important thing of a good grass system is the management of the visibility in order to keep the performance up. no developer can afford to loose gpu/cpu capacity for one object-set...

the trick is not to make good looking gras, the trick is to make the good looking gras usable for wide areas without loosing to much fps...

and as good as grass'o'matic 3 looks, i bet you, if you provide me with your graphics-files i can deliver you exactly the same scene around 75% faster...

You also have to consider they dump millions of dollars into those games.

!?!?
but not for grass...

you can buy good gras models on every corner of the internet... the important part is the integration and managment...
writing a management system for gras is not like designing the U3 engine...
you do not need any money at all for that, you need a brain, some logic, programming skills and a day's time...

are we still talking about grass?

I think so?
maybenew, am I correct recalling you were the one who presented his beautiful environment system on the fora lately? If so: would you mind providing us with some tips about how you kept your performance up?
I know several good methods myself but am always interested in new ones that I couldn't come up with so far.

Cheers

What's withthis project?
Has it ever been released?
And is there any way to get it?

Did you noticed that Bright never answered

I find the grassomatic pictures to be realistic. But PHemox is correct that grass is not often monochrome green without some more or less yellow leaves. The height of the grass depends on how much it has been grazed, the species of the grass and the moisture conditions. If the grass is a tall species, such as Timothy, Orchard Grass, Bromegrass or the like, has enough water, and it is ungrazed and not cut, it will easily reach a height of 3 to 3 1/2 feet or more than a meter high. This is basically what a hay meadow is. The picture of the short, green grass is probably a pasture that has been grazed.
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