REAL Grass

[bigben]

I used Poseray for my conversions. It seems to give the most stable obj files of the methods I've used so far (Blender and Wings) and IMO is simpler to use for just straight conversion purposes. Also note the tip above

[twistednoodle]

TWISTEDNOODLE - Which link?

This one I suspect....

http://3dplants.0catch.com/download.html

Yep that one - well I don't have Poseray so won't download those beauties.  They sure were nice tho!

[Costaud]

Twistednoodle PoseRay is free and easy to use http://mysite.verizon.net/sfg0000/

[bigben]

If you download the the 3ds files of these, here is some advice on using Poseray to convert them to stable obj which will open and render with out crashing, I just copied it from my other post if it sounds familiar,  "Poseray does a great job of converting 3ds files to obj, which open and render without crashes, BUT, you have to make 2 changes in Poseray's groups tab, under the faces,vertices and normals tab, first click Drop y = 0, and then to the right of that under scale and rotation reference point click origin, then all that needs to be done is click the green check mark to update the file before exporting as an object.
If you don't do this all the objects, or at least the ones I have experimented with, will be about half submerged in the surface.
SeerBlue

And one small addition.  If your imported object in TG is lying on its side, in the OBJ options in TG uncheck the "Source Z up" box. Here's a quick and dirty reworking of a 3DS from http://3dplants.0catch.com/download.html

[twistednoodle]

Oh that looks great - a lot of potential there!  You guys really have a handle on this and other software, the conversations here are very interesting and it makes me realise how little I know!  Keep up the good work, the input in this forum has been extremely beneficial to all of us.

Wish list:  long prairie grass or wheat in a golden colour ....  Xfrog have a beauty on their Grasses CD which is a titch expensive for me ... if anyone has something like this as an obj or tgo I would be ETERNALLY grateful!   

[Costaud]

Here are some wheats made with Arbaro. http://www.sharebigfile.com/file/103740/Wheat-zip.html

[Sethren]

I might as well throw some of my goodies in here as well.

Tall grassy plants i had custom made with some texture maps.   

http://www.sharebigfile.com/file/103764/Tall-Grasses-zip.html

[old_blaggard]

Thanks for sharing, guys.

[Sethren]

No problem.       

[mr-miley]

Hi there guys. Many thanks for sharing. Am I the only one who cant get anything from www.sharebigfile.com to work. I put in the 3 digit security code and wait for the countdown to reach "Download File" and click on the button and...... nothing happens. I've tried it in Opera and IE 7 (spits on floor) and both do the same. If anyone is interested I'll more than happily host the files on my site.
If you're interested just email me the files (as they're both small) to miles(thispartisrubbish)@gintdev.co.uk (removing"(thispartisrubbish)" of course, no spam for me ) and I'll upload them and post the link in this thread.

[reck]

Nope can't download either  just get a 404 error. Costaud & Sethren please consider sending the files to Mr-miley so we can download them.

Cheers

[old_blaggard]

If a permanent download is established, would it be OK if I put them on Ashundar's list of models?

[Sethren]

I can download the files just fine using Firefox 2 but who knows what is wrong.   

Anyhow, i am now uploading the zip to mr-miley as i type this.       

[reck]

Strange, just tried with Firefox and get.....

Not Found
The requested URL /getfile.php was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.


.....error message.

[Costaud]

Yes you're right I can't download the files I don't know why.