AutoGrass for V-Ray in the trailer for Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. Image courtesy of CafeFX.
AutoGrass for V-Ray in the trailer for
Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland.
Image courtesy of CafeFX.
Rendering by Daniel Buck
Advanced multi-threaded memory management
Autograss uses Happy Digital's advanced memory management system. That means
Autograss uses only a fixed amount of RAM no matter how much grass is in the
scene, whether it's a one-acre lawn or an entire golf course. No crashes, no
nonsense. And it's fully multi-threaded, so all your cores are driven to their
full potential.
Rendering by Graham Fyffe
Realistic grass presets
Autograss includes eleven preset grass types covering the most commonly used
grasses. You don't need to model any grass. The scientists at Happy Digital
studied radiometrically calibrated photographs to ensure the grass presets have
true-to-life shape and color when used with V-Ray's physical cameras and sun /
sky system, from sunrise to sunset. In addition to these presets, Autograss
provides you with mapping and variation to produce special effects like worn-out
trails and lawnmower paths.
Rendering by Daniel Buck
Easy. Fast. Realistic.
Finally you can have it all.
Rendering by Stanislav Slavov
Feature Summary:
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Eleven grass type presets
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Twelve grass material presets
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Four earth material presets
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Adjustable variation
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Unlimited grass in your scenes
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Density mapping
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Length mapping
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Cutoff mapping
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Thatch mapping
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Direction mapping
Rendering by Daniel Buck
Autograss works in your scene
Autograss works in any scene, from a cozy back yard to an entire eighteen-hole
golf course. There's no need to divide your scenes into passes or layers. Yes,
you can render the whole thing in one go, and it works with all of V-Ray's great
features, like shadows, reflections, depth of field, and global illumination.
Autograss fits in your RAM
You tell Autograss how much RAM to use, and it firmly sticks to that amount even
in enormous scenes, thanks to Happy Digital's proprietary memory management
system. The default setting is 256 megabytes. Of course if you have RAM to
spare, you can tell Autograss to use more and get a render speed boost. And
don't worry about setting it too high: Autograss automatically detects when the
system is running low on memory and adjusts its own usage to avoid paging to
disk.
Rendered in 616 seconds on a 2.8GHz 8-core Mac Pro running Windows XP 64 using
high-quality V-Ray settings (min 2, max 24 image sampler subdivs, 0.005 noise
threshold, motion blur enabled). The lawn is 30 meters wide and 30 meters long
with about 30 million grass blades.
Autograss scales to multiple CPU cores.
Autograss maxes out every available CPU core when rendering. For typical scenes
like the house with lawn shown here, eight CPU cores render up to 7 times faster
than a single CPU core. The speed-up varies for extremely large scenes, but is
still several times faster than a single CPU core. The engineers at Happy
Digital put a lot of effort into this feature so that your prized render farm
CPUs don't go to waste.
System Requirements
Autograss requires Autodesk® 3ds Max™ 9, 2008, 2009, 2010 or 2011, and V-Ray Advanced
rendering engine version 1.5 SP3 or greater. 3ds Max is the leading 3D animation
software from Autodesk®. V-Ray is a widely used rendering engine with superior
photorealism, from Chaos Group. Autograss supports Windows® XP, Windows® XP
Professional x64, and Windows Vista™.
Licensing
Each Autograss WorkStation license is locked to a single machine. The Autograss
License Server is locked to a server on your own network, and provides floating
licenses to the render nodes on your network. No internet connection is required
after you get your keys.
Shipping
Products are delivered by electronic download. Sample scene files and tutorials
are included in Autograss products.
Autograss Workstation single license
(includes 5 render node licenses)
