Fur material as realistic grass

[Pab144]

Wassup Guys,

Is there a way to add ambient texture to the Fur Material?

Reasons: I'm using the Fur material to generate realistic looking grass (see pic) and it's all kinds of awesome. I was hoping however that there was a way to add Ambient Textures to this material so I could use baked shadows.

Please help Babylon Kenobi, you're my only hope.

[NasimiAsl]

interesting  but  what fps  you have? now

[Pab144]

it actually doesn't affect performance that much. I only lost about 8 fps. Thing is I can't add ambient texture to the Fur Material so I can't use my nice baked shadows from vray.

 

[Pab144]

Okay so I found a viable solutions.

Complete Map(Diffuse and Ambient get baked into one map) plus a high number for the furDensity parameter.

Code below.

            var grass = scene.getMeshByName("site-grass-1");
            
            var grassMaterial = new BABYLON.FurMaterial("grass", scene);
            grassMaterial.furLength = 2;
            grassMaterial.furAngle = 0;
            grassMaterial.furColor = new BABYLON.Color3(1,1,1);
            grassMaterial.diffuseTexture = new BABYLON.Texture("assets/Alberino/site-grass-complete.jpg", scene); //COMPLETE MAP RENDERED IN VRAY BUT BLENDER OR SCANLINE WILL DO TOO
            grassMaterial.diffuseTexture.coordinatesIndex = 1; //THIS PART IS KEY DEPENDING ON WHICH CHANNEL YOU BAKED YOUR MAP INTO
            grassMaterial.furTexture = BABYLON.FurMaterial.GenerateTexture("furTexture", scene);
            grassMaterial.furSpacing = 6;
            grassMaterial.furDensity = 250; //THIS IS WHERE THE MAGIC HAPPENS, THE HIGHER THIS NUMBER THE MORE GRASS BLADES
            grassMaterial.furSpeed = 800;
            grassMaterial.furGravity = new BABYLON.Vector3(0, -1, 0);
            
            grass.material = grassMaterial;
            
            var quality = 30;
            
            var shells = BABYLON.FurMaterial.FurifyMesh(grass, quality);

 

See pic for final result.

PS: some Photoshop editing might be required to get difference between light/dark areas of the complete map just right.

[GameMonetize]

This is really beautiful

[Pab144]

Thanks, Delta, I will share link to the scene when I'm done with it.