Daz Grass surface assets

[lawfullame]

What assets are good for the lawn in front of the house? Ideally, I need something where I can choose the size or materials that will allow to cover primitives of any size with grass.
I came across for example at

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, but here's the problem that any shape other than a square will deform the grass.

 

[Papa Ernie]

Not sure if these will work, but here ya go:
ULTIMATE Grass & Meadow Worldbuilder
Iray Worlds-Plus and Amazing Horizons for Iray Worlds-Plus

 

[Deleted member 1121028]

There is also Grassy Grounds from the same author. That's what I plan to use later (I'm stuck into city-based render right now). From what I've seen it comes with lots of props, so it should be easily 'instanciable'. But I have no clue how it looks render-wise.

 

[lawfullame]

Not sure if these will work, but here ya go:
ULTIMATE Grass & Meadow Worldbuilder
Iray Worlds-Plus and Amazing Horizons for Iray Worlds-Plus

Both of these products are more suitable for large open landscapes.
ULTIMATE Grass & Meadow Worldbuilder covers a large area and it is not possible to apply grass to smaller objects. Iray Worlds-Plus and Amazing Horizons for Iray Worlds-Plus allows you to use smaller areas of grass, but it's not grass that looks good in the well-kept gardens.

There is also Grassy Grounds from the same author. That's what I plan to use later (I'm stuck into city-based render right now). From what I've seen it comes with lots of props, so it should be easily 'instanciable'. But I have no clue how it looks render-wise.

This also looks more like grass in the wild than grass in a well-kept garden. I meant something closer to the English lawn.

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is probably closest to what I want, but I still have a problem when I want an area of some specific size.
Maybe I'll just use textures, because I didn't find anything like that.

 

[Deleted member 1121028]

Never tried and might be a bit overkill but you could try to do it by fitting strand-based hair to your surface and ajust color, with, density, salt, curves....

 

[lawfullame]

Never tried and might be a bit overkill but you could try to do it by fitting strand-based hair to your surface and ajust color, with, density, salt, curves...

Is it possible to apply hair assets to flat surfaces and cover the entire surface?

 

[Deleted member 1121028]

Not hair-asset but hair or fur-like meshes to any surface.

Select your surface/panes and Create > New Strand Based Hair
Fit it to your selected surface :



Paint where you want your "grass" (or paint everything if you want everything)



I guess it's the tricky part - adjust density (way lower), width, salt, color, etc, to simulate grass... You can make curve in the Style tab iirc. Click accept whenever you are done.



Select your Strand-Based hair and click on "Preview PR Hairs" (or you will see nothing) in the parameters pane, lots of setting in the surface tab too.



But to be honest I never have the occasion to play with this, it may as well not worth it (not sure how much impact it has on render)

 

[lawfullame]

Not hair-asset but hair or fur-like meshes to any surface.

Select your surface/panes and Create > New Strand Based Hair
Fit it to your selected surface :

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Paint where you want your "grass" (or paint everything if you want everything)

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I guess it's the tricky part - adjust density (way lower), width, salt, color, etc, to simulate grass... You can make curve in the Style tab iirc. Click accept whenever you are done.

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Select your Strand-Based hair and click on "Preview PR Hairs" (or you will see nothing) in the parameters pane, lots of setting in the surface tab too.

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But to be honest I never have the occasion to play with this, it may as well not worth it (not sure how much impact it has on render)

I do not know if this will come in handy for this purpose, but I totally forgot that there is this feature in Daz. Thanks for reminding me. I'll play a little and see.

 

[Boogie]

Here's a another option for a grass lawn:

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