Learn how to create a outdoor grassy scene in Blender with Cycles
In this tutorial series, go through the complete process of creating a grassy field with a cricket ball. The tutorial aims to teach important shading and texturing concepts that will enable you to theoretically be able to realistically shade and texture almost any object.
In this first part, we will create a set of blades of grass, and then create the field using a particle system that instances those blades.
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o man .i am feeling too sorry that i am not a citizen member…..
any ways i know this will be a great series…..
Is this just a text tutorial or a video tutorial?
I got the whole text version in my mail anyways…
There is a video
Video AND text. Sweet
Awesome Greg, glad to see you’re still doing tutorials. BlenderNerd forever!
Looking forward to Part 2.
Hello Greg
Looks nice. Can’t wait to watch it. I watched some of your tutorials on BlenderNerd. Welcome to CGCookie.
marcos
So let’s say that somebody following the tutorial doesn’t have as much juice in their computer, do you have a solution for the darkness during rendering? More lights?
Are you referring to the rendering squares or bad lighting. If you have bad lighting just add more lights and play around with it till it looks correct. If you do not have the hardware then It will take longer to render. (one core per square). The only thing you can do to fix the hardware is to buy better hardware. I recommend looking in to the AMD A10 trinity quad core. An APU will get you graphics and procesing. MSI motherboard with 8 GB of RAM.
Happy blending
The darkness is caused by the transparency depth (how many times a ray passes through transparent materials until it dies) – unfortunately I don’t know any way to get around this, so try playing with slightly higher transparency bounces untill you’re happy with the amount of black you see.
That’s what I thought . . . thanks to both answers. I’ll be saving my pennies.
A whole new interesting series starts and my citizenship ends in 3 days? That’s my luck
Another Citizen tutorial? Seriously?!
“What man has to eat”
I know how you feel. A year ago this would have been a free tutorial.
Hey Andrew, Jan,
I certainly understand your disappointment, we do release a greater percentage of our tutorials as Citizen now than we did a year ago. However, we also have much higher costs now than a year ago, and many more Citizen members that’re paying to see the extra content. We try our best to please all parties, the free users and the Citizen users, but of course this isn’t always possible. If you have any concerns or would like to discuss things further our email is always open via [email protected]
That being said, so far the tally is looking pretty balanced. Since January 1st we’ve released five free tutorials and three Citizen tutorials.
Cheers,
Jonathan
Hmm I count 2 tutorials since January and they have both been citizen. There have been a couple of demos but nothing tutorial based. Honestly there really isn’t much for the non paying guest on blender cookie any longer. Which is a real shame because I learnt blender on the back of some of your great work.
Citizen is very affordable and worth the money
I guess that’s the price you guys pay for popularity. I’ll say it again, thank you for all of the free tutorials you provide. Some people still appreciate the fact that you need to eat. LOL.
This is great. I think even a nob like myself can make realistic grass with this.
I’m glad I can support Blender Cookied by being a Citizen. Blender cookie is a great resource and I’ve learned much more from the free tutorials on Blender cookie than hundreds of dollars worth of Blender books, and the Blender books are *good*.
I feel bad about the folks who can’t afford to support Blender Cookie and would like to get the Citizen content, but if you look at these wonderful tutorials – they take a LOT of time to create and this website takes money to make happen. If you can’t be a citizen, think positive! Don’t think about what you can’t have, think about all the excellent content you CAN have for free.
cool tutorial and not only about grass, awesome tricks in there. thx Greg
very great tutorial. The most interesting part for me was the material section. I have learned a lot. Looking forward for your next vid.
Blender is free, the tuts should be free as well
That logic doesn’t really follow. Blender is sponsored. The coders don’t just do it for the love of it.
Blender is made possible by users like you.
http://www.blender.org/blenderorg/blender-foundation/donation-payment/
Blender wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for folks giving their time or money to support Blender. You can support Blender by volunteering to do a task, by buying Blendered Sponsored products, or directly donating to the Blender foundation.
Blender Cookie is similar – much is “free” but it wouldn’t exist if not for those willing to support it.
How can i avoid the “floating grass”? Some blades are in the air.
How did you figure that out, the yellow and transparency bit of the texture? You must be a god! Well, at least in the world of Blender.
Hmm, seems like more and more tutorials are becoming citizen only. Blender does appear to be slipping towards commercialisation. We already have Andrew Price and now it appears as if Blender Cookie are moving their efforts more towards the paying customer. I completely appreciate that you guys need to live but please try to keep some tutorials free.
Absolutely, there will always be free tutorials on Blender Cookie. There’s one coming on Monday I think you’ll all enjoy
We have to keep our main focus on Citizen in order to keep the site running and cover our costs, but we always want to offer free tutorials for everyone. All things considered, our current operating costs are over $30,000/month.
Looking back, I see many free tutorials in the last two months that have taught things never yet covered on the site. Is there anything in particular you’re not finding in the free tutorials? Any particular topics you’re really wanting to learn?
Currently our general plan is to create complete, thorough series for Citizen that are intended to teach specific skill sets and techniques that better enable you to use Blender professionally and perhaps make a career out of it. Then the free tutorials are more one-offs on specific things that teach valuable skills, but may not be as targeted to the larger picture. There is some overlap of course but our real goal with Citizen is to make it a valuable investment for yourself as an artist, enabling you to learn most everything you need in Blender to step up to the next level.
Your continued support is very appreciated Stephen, thanks for sticking with us!
Jonathan
My plan is to, eventually, get a citizen membership but at the moment I am on a very tight budget. So a citizen membership is not something that I can justify to myself right now.
As for tutorials that I am looking for. Well there is nothing that I am thinking “gosh I want a tutorial on this”. I’ve been using Blender long enough to be able to do pretty much everything that I want to do with it. What I do like it watching how other people blend in order to pick up those little techniques which just make things quicker.
I will come on over to the citizen side hopefully sooner rather than later.
The particle system seems very long to render for me; for a very small amount and surface it takes a life to render ((
This is an awesome tutorial but while trying to setup my environment like yours discovered that blender 3.66 is not supporting my GPU a radeon hd 4850 or at least is not showing in the device list. Wondering if GPU support has been an issue for others or if I just didn’t configure something currently.
Currently Blender only supports newish NVidia cards for GPU rendering (problem with ATI drivers)
I feel like I have done everything exactly as the tutorial stated, but I keep rendering a blank screen. In my cycles view it renders fine, but when I try to render an image it takes a couple seconds and renders a black screen. Any suggestions?
Have an emitter plane set at 20,000 and a camera.
Are you rendering with CPU or GPU? Does it give any errors? What does it print if you open blender in a terminal/command line and then try render?
Now that I am all citizened up I can finally watch the vid
This is the second time I have payed for the citizen thing so I can see the tutorials. I have never been able to get any videos to work in browser. I have to download them. I remember someone saying clearing the cashe would fix it, but that didn’t work. What do I need to do to make it work?
Hey Darren,
There’s a few things that can cause the videos to not work in the browser.
The most common and most likely culprit is a flash or ad blocker. Be sure that you either white list CG Cookie or else disable the flash/ad blocker.
Another thing can be browser compatibility. I suggest you use Firefox or Google Chrome, as they tend to be the most reliable. I would highly discourage using Internet Explorer as it’s very often the main source of problems.
If neither of those things work let me know and I’ll try and help you track it down further.
Cheers,
Jonathan
Hey Jonathan,
I really appreciate the quick response. I tried turning off the add blocker and it is still the same problem. I am trying to run in chrome as well. The videos that aren’t citizen videos work just fine, it’s just the locked ones. I press play and it just stays at 00:00 with a black video screen.
Can you try refreshing the page a few times?
I tried refreshing a few times. I installed firefox and tried it there too. Still the same problem.