Collab2021-WIP- spikeyxxx

[John Sanderson]

@jlampel Yeah. He’s great! Unfortunately your binge will be short as he is slow about making content. But it’s hard to complain about the quality. Also check out his website noclip.

[Kent Trammell]

@procyonlotor What a golden nugget you dug up! If you can believe it, I actually considered this technique for a minute. The first time I saw it was Shadow of the Colossus for PS2:

I think it’s a brilliant technique but decided it was a bit to lo-fi for this project. 

[Kent Trammell]

@spikeyxxx Of course the grass proved to be a difficult and frustrating asset to create. I thought for sure we would need to come up with a clever solution with cards and camera culling and whatever else. But ultimately I think an old-fashioned particle hair system is going to work best.

I’m afraid I’m going to give up on the hope to grow grass over the entirety of the terrain. Instead I’m just growing it closest to the house; the “FG area” as we’ve dubbed it. From there I will fade out the density into no grass. If I work the shader right it will barely be perceptible unless a viewer is looking for lady bugs in the extreme corners of the terrain.

As expected, you put some amazing work into exploration of grass techniques. Your efforts are appreciated and will not go un-credited. Thanks for contributing and leading your team! It’s always a pleasure working with you 🤝

[spikeyxxx]

Thank you Kent, I have been trying so many tricks and nothing seemed to work…was starting to feel desperate.

But glady you managed to get it to work…and with sooo little Hair Particles even…. an amazing result! Just the sort of look I was trying to get 🙂

[spikeyxxx]

There is also a problem with the edges of the grass (where the sides of the path meet the grass).

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