Field of wheat and flowers

dannagiusy64

Hi everyone.
I just bought this product
https://www.daz3d.com/wild-flower-plants-vol-4--wheatfields
I wanted to create a dense field of wheat. Selecting the various tufts of ears takes a lifetime to fill the field. Is there a way to speed up this process?

Thanks everyone for the help

Richard Haseltine

Use Instances (Create>New Node Instances...) or use UltraScatter https://www.daz3d.com/ultrascatterpro--upgrade-from-ultrascatter-advanced-instancing or, for this type of task, even UtraScenery https://www.daz3d.com/ultrascenery--realistic-landscape-system

dannagiusy64

Ok. Thanks for the reply. But what is the difference between this
https://www.daz3d.com/ultrascatter-advanced-instancing-for-daz-studio
and what you recommended to me? 

Richard Haseltine said:

Use Instances (Create>New Node Instances...) or use UltraScatter https://www.daz3d.com/ultrascatterpro--upgrade-from-ultrascatter-advanced-instancing or, for this type of task, even UtraScenery https://www.daz3d.com/ultrascenery--realistic-landscape-system

mding

Ultrascatter Advanced is the predecessor of ultrascatter pro. If you would buy it, you could still buy

https://www.daz3d.com/ultrascatterpro--upgrade-from-ultrascatter-advanced-instancing

in order to upgrade to the latest version, which is

https://www.daz3d.com/ultrascatterpro

Richard Haseltine

Thanks, I thought I'd carefully avoided the upgrade link.

Paintbox

The Ultrascenery thread is very informative, I think you should be able to make one with it :

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/380431/ultrascenery-commercial/p100

You do need to get a bit technical to change the features of the product, it doesn't come with the feature out of the box. In that case you'd be better off with Ultrascatter.

dannagiusy64

 Thank you. I tried to create groups with New Node Instances, but the groups it creates are very heavy and the program closes. Is it possible to make each group a props object?

Richard Haseltine said:

Thanks, I thought I'd carefully avoided the upgrade link.

Richard Haseltine

dannagiusy64 said:

 Thank you. I tried to create groups with New Node Instances, but the groups it creates are very heavy and the program closes. Is it possible to make each group a props object?

Richard Haseltine said:

Thanks, I thought I'd carefully avoided the upgrade link.

In the Parameters pane turn off Visible In Viewport for those you have finished with. Make sure Render Settings has memory as the Instance Optimisation method. Instances are lighter than props anyway, so turning the groups into groups of props would be counter-productive.

dannagiusy64

ok. Thank you. I try to do as you told me. 

Richard Haseltine said:

dannagiusy64 said:

 Thank you. I tried to create groups with New Node Instances, but the groups it creates are very heavy and the program closes. Is it possible to make each group a props object?

Richard Haseltine said:

Thanks, I thought I'd carefully avoided the upgrade link.

In the Parameters pane turn off Visible In Viewport for those you have finished with. Make sure Render Settings has memory as the Instance Optimisation method. Instances are lighter than props anyway, so turning the groups into groups of props would be counter-productive.