How to create a grass in Blender?

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Learn how to create a grass in Blender, using particle systems (and some tricks). Feel free to share!

How to Create a Grass in Blender: A Few Tips

After you created one grass clump, everything else can’t be easier. Just copy-paste it and change the geometry slightly, using Proportional Editing.

how to create a grass in blender
One grass clump and a few manipulations = 4 clumps

Grass and Lighting

There is a trick to illuminating the grass – use 3-4 Sun Lamps with variable size. One with a small size to make a sharp shadows (and provide definition). And other with increased size to fill in the darks with more dispersed, ambient lighting.

blender grass lighting
Size 0.1, Strength 15
grass blender lighting
Size 1, Strength 5

Particle Textures

Nature loves chaos. Uniformity of the particle distribution kills the effect. To break up the repetition you can control density and size of a Particle System using Particle Textures.

blender particle textures
Add chaos to make grass believable

Final Render of the Grass Field (Download the Scene)

how to create a grass in blender

If you feel like reading, the text version can be found in 3dArtist magazine.

    Gleb Alexandrov

    3 comments

    1. Viewmont Gamers

      very helpful

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    2. Oscar Rodriguez Parga

      Very useful tutorial. Short and well explained.

      Besides your tutorial, I also followed the tutorial from Andrew price for the stake and Thomas Schloegl tutorial for stones.

      Shop and trunks I have downloaded BlendSwap. The sounds of http://www.sonidosmp3gratis.com

      After 36 hours of rendering, here I leave the final result.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGbJku2CZHs

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