Groundcover, grass

Hi, I have been trying to find a way to create realistic grass with Irender Nxt. I wonder if it is possible to use bumps, as with the water effect.

I have seen a topic in the forum about the ground cover feature, but I am not able to make grass, just leafs. I would be greatful for some further explanation.

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Permalink Reply by Richcat on March 22, 2012 at 5:53pm

Hi Rich - feel free to use them - that why i posted it,

Makes a good rug as well.

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Schneider on June 20, 2014 at 8:53am

I'm trying to figure this out, is there an updated tutorial somewhere? a lot of the links are dead.

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on June 20, 2014 at 10:07am

The original AccuStudio tutorial for grass was indeed moved. I searched for grass on the AccuStudio site and found this tutorial for making a 'displacement' grass material:

http://www.accustudio.com/workshop/tutorials/54-nxt-displacement-grass

It was made in nXt for AutoCAD, but the procedure is the same for making the grass material in SketchUp, you just get to the Advanced material editor from the IRender nXt material editor dialog.

Also, here are the instructions for assigning a Ground Cover to a surface, as an object property:

http://www.nxtrender.com/wk/Ground_Cover.htm

Basically you save a ground cover file, using the steps shown below and assign that to the surface:

The trick there is to change the leaf to a grass leaf, which can be loaded here (depending on where IRender nXt is installed on your hard drive):

C:\Program Files (x86)\Render Plus Systems\IRender_nXt\bin_Nxt\Support\Plants\Leaves

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Schneider on June 20, 2014 at 10:15am

Thanks, I'll read through that.

There seems to be something on the Accurender page converting some links to Viagra and Cialis ads. I tried in Chrome and IE on my desktop and also on my phone. It's actually kind of funny

"Note: the default displacement used in this tutorial is black and viagra next day shipping white"

"Click the double down arrow next to Materials to insurance cover viagra cost expand the viagra integration online materials section"

"Before adding the cheap cialis find grass texture"

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on June 20, 2014 at 10:21am

I don't see the converted text here. I see for the first sentence (in Chrome):

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on June 20, 2014 at 11:12am

Can you send me the link in the browser pane, when you are at this site looking at this hacked page?

We were wondering if something was redirecting the page...

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Schneider on June 20, 2014 at 11:17am

http://www.acc ustudio.com/workshop/tutorials/54-nxt-displacement-grass

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Permalink Reply by Chris Joiner on November 17, 2015 at 8:10am

Hi, I'm curious how the soil texture/color is achieved underneath the grass, when I render I am seeing a white/blue color instead. Thanks

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on November 17, 2015 at 8:37am

The color under the ground cover is the material placed on that face in the model. It might be the default face color of the SketchUp Style for your model, or the color of a reverse face.

If you can click on that blue color in the rendering it will show you the name of that material. If you click on a leaf of the ground cover it will just show "Unknown".

Or just make sure that a material that looks like dirt is placed on the surface where you are applying the ground cover.

Chris Joiner said:

Hi, I'm curious how the soil texture/color is achieved underneath the grass, when I render I am seeing a white/blue color instead. Thanks

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Permalink Reply by Chris Joiner on November 17, 2015 at 11:25am

Thanks! That did the trick. I guess the lighting settings made my light and unsaturated green color appear whitish-blue. Got a nice soil texture now and looks great.

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on November 17, 2015 at 11:31am

Right, if the background color (the SketchUp Sky color) is blue, light materials will have a blue tint because of the color from the light from the sky.

Chris Joiner said:

Thanks! That did the trick. I guess the lighting settings made my light and unsaturated green color appear whitish-blue. Got a nice soil texture now and looks great.

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Permalink Reply by Chris Joiner on December 11, 2015 at 8:11am

I can't seem to be able to change the color of the grass. I have opened and edited the blade of grass .png file as referenced in this thread, though the renderer continues to render the same shade of green every time. I even changed the grass blade color to pink just to see if anything would happen, but no results.