I Want to Believe

[Balletdude]

A little aliens are visiting post. creating crop circles the easy way. this is my second attempt, as I felt it needed something. so I added the thinner rows of empty space you see in fields, to die some scale to the whole thing. The ones in the distance after the circle are photoshopped, as I forgot to add the mask to that section. I then sharpened the whole thing a little in camera raw, and moved the greens closer to yellow for a little colour adjustment, and a very slight touch of grain

[Hannes]

Great!!! But aren't the areas of the circles usually just pushed down somehow instead of empty?

[Balletdude]

Great!!! But aren't the areas of the circles usually just pushed down somehow instead of empty?

Thanks, that's correct. I was thinking of a way to do it, either with a population, or maybe just an image map. not sure of the best way 

[aknight0]

What about just masking another population of grass into the empty spaces, where the grass object has been rotated 90 deg or so to lay flat?

[Dune]

If it's one or a few stems of grass that would work. You could also try a dense population of narrow elongated rocks.... might work from a distance.

[WAS]

Cool idea. Kinda funny you posted this, as I was just reading an article about cops busting a group of crop circle makers vandalizing someone's farm.

Some lower scale PF ground, with some colour-to-disp displacement, may actually look like pressed down crop. It's already partially there.

[Balletdude]

Cool idea. Kinda funny you posted this, as I was just reading an article about cops busting a group of crop circle makers vandalizing someone's farm.

Some lower scale PF ground, with some colour-to-disp displacement, may actually look like pressed down crop. It's already partially there.

Thats the route I was going to try.

[Balletdude]

What about just masking another population of grass into the empty spaces, where the grass object has been rotated 90 deg or so to lay flat?

I tried that but the entire population just rotated, must have done something wrong. Thanks

[Balletdude]

If it's one or a few stems of grass that would work. You could also try a dense population of narrow elongated rocks.... might work from a distance.

good idea

[WAS]

What about just masking another population of grass into the empty spaces, where the grass object has been rotated 90 deg or so to lay flat?

I tried that but the entire population just rotated, must have done something wrong. Thanks

You have to go into the population's internal node network and edit the objects rotation that the populator is instancing.

[masonspappy]

Looks very cool - please keep developing!