Grass

[minotto]

How does one get Grass to look like this in Renderworks?

Realistic Grass

[PVA - Admin]

We don't have a built-in Grass shader yet, unfortunately it isn't included in the version of Cinerender (R12 I think at the moment) we use for Renderworks. Once the Cinerender engine is updated we would be able to include a realistic grass shader.

For now, short of modelling it manually, the best solution would be one or more image props I suspect.

[zoomer]

Or to use the Displacement Option in Bump Mapping as kind of workaround.

I think it was shown in one of the Starter Videos or Tutorials (?)

[PVA - Admin]

Its alright for thick carpet or astroturf-length grass, the issue with Displacement mapping for grass is that you can't get the random overlapping and curved blades at random angles as shown the image in the original post.

Once I saw it done as a shader in C4D, which effectively removes 80% of the work traditionally needed to make realistic grass, I slapped the wishlist button immediately.

[zoomer]

I always thought Grass is included as Renderworks contains the Hair and ArchGrass DLL's

[PVA - Admin]

Nah those names don't necessarily reflect what Vectorworks can and can't do, don't use those as a reference in the future, many of those names are meaningless in relation to what the file actually does.

[zoomer]

I understand ...

[minotto]

Thanks for the info.

[Kevin McAllister]

Just to clarify, VW uses Cinerender 14 as per this thread discussion - https://techboard.vectorworks.net/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=201257&Searchpage=1&Main=40604&Words=Cinerender&Search=true#Post201257

I think its one version before Grass was introduced.

KM

[PVA - Admin]

Just to clarify, VW uses Cinerender 14 as per this thread discussion

Thats the one, thank you!