Hey, what is up, nation?
In this session we're gonna be talking about
how you can make more realistic looking grass,
using Lumion 9.
Okay, so I'm gonna be using schedule
just for this first part here.
What I did is I made a flat plane.
I made it green.
And then I imported this gnome,
who is pushing a wheelbarrow through the grass.
It's pretty cool-looking model.
So I think it might be cool
if we're gonna put in some grass.
While I have a garden gnome.
So we have that guy in there.
And that's pretty much it, I just save this.
And then I'm gonna be using Lumion sync
to bring this into Lumion.
Okay, so I've imported a little gnommy.
I'm using like standard white background scene.
Notice you can see my grass here.
And here's my little gnome.
Okay, what I'm gonna do...
typically, in previous versions,
you'd use the landscape tools to put in some grass.
But in Lumion 9 there's actually a 3D grass texture.
So this we're gonna be using here.
So you click on this little texture image, or this material image.
They'll bring out materials, will enable them
that you can click on the surface.
And then I'll give you an option.
You can make your own.
But the 3D grass is under nature.
Then you'll see here there's 3D grass.
And then I'm just gonna choose wild grass 1.
That's gonna give me this guy.
It's a little much.
So let's choose something a little different.
But she's clean-cut here.
And then we'll just make it a little bit longer.
So just double - click that.
And then choose grass link.
And just make it a little bit taller.
Add some gravity, add some bending.
Try to get the front of that wheel a little bit.
And just make it a little bit curly.
So it looks pretty good.
So that's a good start.
But what I've noticed, and you could render like this.
And I've done that before.
But what I've noticed to really make some realistic grass,
is that you need to add some other things into this.
So just to give it a little bit more texture.
So if you go to objects, under nature
you want to do place here.
I don't bring up the menu here.
There's like these little white flowers that I really love.
So I usually just hit the search icon at the top
and then type in white.
So these little guys, little Brecon guys,
or these bird's-eye Primrose white grouped.
You click them.
So this is like ginormous.
So let's just scale them down.
Just click scale. Scale them down to like that.
Go back to select.
And then bring them down.
The way that I sort of do this is just
once I'm picking up a little bit.
Something like that.
Now when I select this, choose move.
Move horizontal.
I'm gonna hit alt here.
I'm just gonna make a copy
and I can make like the little cluster of these.
Then select them.
Select the group of them.
And then make a few groups of these off.
So I have like three little groups,
which makes the grass a little bit more dynamic.
What I can also do is come in...
what I like to do is type in the grass.
And then just put some like wild grass in here and there.
So like this rough grass insert, this is probably...
this might be something that's like good off in the distance.
We're just gonna see
what might work for your particular grass.
Just to give it a little bit of variety.
Simple grass probably not.
Okay, yeah. So we're just says thick grass cluster.
Let's do like a smaller patch.
Sounds like that.
And then we'll just scale this down again.
So just select that and scale like this.
You may want to change the heel a little bit.
So it matches.
Or it is similar to what is already there.
Really it's mostly about
changing the saturation in this particular case.
It looks pretty good.
And the same thing.
Select it, move it, and then choose the up arrow.
And move it down a little bit just so it is picking up.
Just a tiny bit.
Then take this, hit alt.
Hold and you can make a few copies of that.
Around as well.
And that should give you a pretty convincing grass
with a little bit of variation.
You can do this...you know, a few different times
with other types of grass.
And we'll just give it that variety that is in real grass.
But I think these like little things
help add a little bit of variety to the grass itself.
So hopefully this helped.
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