opinions on grass for iray?

WendyLuvsCatz

if you join the PC+ club theses are cheap

https://www.daz3d.com/leather-and-fur-iray-shaders

it pays for itself in coupons and freebies if you want to buy DAZ original stuff and you can just do a 3 month subscription (just make sure you cancel recurring payments on paypal or your credit card etc)

WendyLuvsCatz

old thread but some links for plants

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/24646/links-list-of-plant-freebies-by-genus/p1

WendyLuvsCatz

Diomede freebies

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/413106/tree-for-daz-studio-added-and-grass

Saint

I was looking at this product: https://www.daz3d.com/grass-shader-for-daz-studio

WendyLuvsCatz

Saint said:

I was looking at this product: https://www.daz3d.com/grass-shader-for-daz-studio

that is 3Delight so you will have the same displacement limitation the fuzzywuzzy ones I linked have in iray

Saint

Those fur shaders look pretty versatile, might be a good investment. You think one of those would be useful for grass?

WendyLuvsCatz

Saint said:

Those fur shaders look pretty versatile, might be a good investment. You think one of those would be useful for grass?

with a green diffuse should work

again being shader based it depends on how the terrain in question is UV mapped, most are flatmapped but not always

Saint

That too is something I can always sort out in Blender if necessary.

WendyLuvsCatz

there also is this

https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-thicket-shapes

I don't own it but its dforce

Saint

Does UltraScatter support any kind of masking, like if you only wanna scatter grass to certain areas? Again the idea here is to put grass and maybe weeds on an existing surface, with a specific shape.

WendyLuvsCatz

Saint said:

Does UltraScatter support any kind of masking, like if you only wanna scatter grass to certain areas? Again the idea here is to put grass and maybe weeds on an existing surface, with a specific shape.

yes

just read the product description 

https://www.daz3d.com/ultrascatterpro

it sometimes goes on sale too

Saint

I'll put it on the wishlist and circle back to the lawn the next time it's on sale. Thanks for your input!