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wow , thanx for sharing this one ....
you know , i am not very keen on shaders , and this one is a fine one , which i always was looking for . and it helps to render larger landscapes .
i just used 4 different grass textures , that i found on the internet and put them into the file nodes . and now test-render ....
first impression:
in maya-software-renderer it is much faster than in mental-ray (at least in my first impression)
in mental ray : for animation purpose i guess it takes quite long to render , but the result is very good . at least faster to set up , than a regular grasstexture-with-displacement-material and the results are much better !!!
maybe something is wrong in my setup , but i am missing a kind of displacement on the grass in CLOSEUP. as i did not know what to do with the displacement-stuff in the outliner- which i see in the scene (this star-shape...) maybe you can post a render of a closeup or a highresolution render , please? )
using maya6.5 , i had no problem changing the version number with the help of my favorite texteditor - so no headache here... lol
looking for textures ? lol https://lemog.free.fr/lemog_v5/thumbnails.php?album=42
Don't let the missing textures discourage you from dissecting this network. It's got a lot of great potential, and some experimentation with four of your own textures (grass, dirt, scrub, whatever) will prove productive.
I'm guessing I'm just doing something wrong but when I downloaded the shader all I received was the Photorealgrass.ma when I imported the shader it generated a warning message saying it was un able to reference several veg0~.jpg's. Anyways I was all excited to play with this shader but it isn't working for me. I hope to hear what the fix is for either the shader or my ignorance.
Thanks for posting!
