Realistic grass with V-ray

After this step, is the step for Flip Along > Group’s Blue. After the previous step you may notice that the texture is only visible on the opposite side of the plane you have created. To be able to fix this, you have to right click on the plane and then select “flip along” > “group’s blue.” After doing this you will notice that the texture will appear on the top side.

Now you have to paint the grass. Even though at this point you will notice that the grass is looking realistic yet the color is not the way it should look. What you have to do is by using the “materials” tab in your default tray you have to change the colour of your grass.

Now you have to select “landscape, vegetation, and fencing” from the dropdown menu and then choose a material that can be closely associated with what you are looking for. You can opt for the “grass light green.” After this, you have to click on your plane to be able to paint the material onto the grass. There is no need for you to use a V-ray material for this part, the reason for this is that the standard SketchUp texture is able to provide a lot more variation look realistic.

Now you have to edit Material. Now to be able to edit the realistic grass using V-ray, you have click on the “asset editor” in the top menu right next to the renderer button. You will find the option “V-Ray Fur” right under the “geometry” tab. Now you have to select this material and then click on the arrow on the right side of the window to be able to open the settings panel.

The next most important setting you have to take care of are the “count” and “length.” You have to understand that by raising the “count” your grass will appear a lot denser and more realistic. You can also choose to alter the length to be longer or shorter. If you want a freshly cut or even a turf sort of appearance then you can opt for the short size, whereas, if you want a taller and unkept look for your grass then choose the longer length.

It is for you to decide how you want the grass to look which highly depends on your model. Usage of long length will help you get a lot more depth as after placing your object on the plane you will notice the way the grass grows around the object which creates further depth.

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Adjust Material Size to look realistic

In order to look the material look realistic within Sketchup, they need to be sized to a real word size. For example, in Sketchup , there is a default model and if we measure it, it has a height about six feet which is a normal height of a human being Basically it means , this gives you a size of your model. Sometimes when you add material into your model, it seems the detail of material is too big or small. In this case, you can adjust them within your edit tab under material.

Re-Use the same material with “Make Unique Texture”

You can use the same material and you set up different sizes by using make unique texture. For instance, copy the existing texture. Sometimes you wish to change the size of the copied texture to make it look different. For that just right click on the copied texture and click on make unique texture. That will going to copy your texture in other layer. Now you can change the colour of the texture or resize it.

Download and Import higher resolution texture

Sketchup has a bunch of different materials. Like brick material, sand material etc. Whole bunch materials can be found out in the drop down. Sometimes you need more high resolutions material files but you get low resolution files. This low resolution texture will not help you in doing rendering. What you can do , you can go to a website like www.sketchuptexture.com and you can actually download other materials. Once you have download the file, you can unzip it and it will contain an image. Double click it and the image will pop up.

In order to add this material in Sketchup, open Sketchup and go to Sketchup model. Click on File and click on import. Navigate the image to into the folder where it is located. Name your image and Import it.

Place material location using position texture

Clicking on position texture will help you to resize your texture. The main function of position is to custom scale it and make it more realistic. You can transform the texture according to your criteria.

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