topic 3D Grass is not showing in Visualization

3D Grass is not showing

Anonymous — Thu, 11 May 2023 09:51:43 GMT

I have this problem on a single mesh, however when I render the entire surrounding, the grass is showing flat. I have carefully watched the Archicad video for the 3D Grass settings, I applied everything as shown, but unfortunately it doesn't work. I don't know what could be the problem.

Re: 3D Grass is not showing

DGSketcher — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 13:11:41 GMT

Check the Grass setting is ticked in your surface settings...

Re: 3D Grass is not showing

Minh Nguyen — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 14:31:24 GMT

Hi,

Thank you for the question and I am very sorry about the issue!

I believe this is a known limitation, that was documented here: https://helpcenter.graphisoft.com/knowledgebase/75954/

As I saw that you had a big area of Grass, this could be the case with CineRender. Unfortunately, it is a limitation with the engine.

Thank you for your understanding! Let me know if it helps with the issue!

Best regards,
Minh

Re: 3D Grass is not showing

Erwin Edel — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 14:31:30 GMT

Looking at the size of that mesh, using the 3D grass option is going to take a very long time to render, I would guess.

Re: 3D Grass is not showing

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 08:44:18 GMT

I didn't know that it had limitation with the engine. I just hoped it worked also with big areas of Grass.
The mesh rendered pretty fast, although it was quite big and plus with 3D grass.
I was a bit disappointed when I saw it's only half with grass.

Nevertheless, thank you for the help.

mnguyen wrote:
Hi,

Thank you for the question and I am very sorry about the issue!

I believe this is a known limitation, that was documented here: https://helpcenter.graphisoft.com/knowledgebase/75954/

As I saw that you had a big area of Grass, this could be the case with CineRender. Unfortunately, it is a limitation with the engine.

Thank you for your understanding! Let me know if it helps with the issue!

Best regards,
Minh

Re: 3D Grass is not showing

Carstenem — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 00:50:32 GMT

To overcome this limit, create more the 1 grass material. Close to camera have more grass blades, further away from camera less grass blades.

Cheers Carsten