[Q] Limey grass

[valerostudio]

Anyone else find the textures for the library grass a bit limey? I have photoshopped the saturation down about 35% on the 3 blade textures and it renders much more realistic to me. The yellowness of it seems little nuclear.

[jiminy-billy-bob]

Did you lower the saturation on your render, or on the texture files themselves?

[valerostudio]

I lowered the saturation on the texture files in the Skatter library, down about 40%. They just seemed really yellow to me. A couple of clients made comments that the grass was too "neon green". Maybe I am just shooting for more of a Kentucky Bluegrass color because that's what are used to seeing locally.

One thing I loved was the AutoGrass plugin for Max. You had a few varieties of grass types, which was really a lovely plugin to work with.

http://www.happy-digital.com/autograss

[aiden]

I altered the grass files for the same reason you mentioned - lowering the yellow, increasing the blue and resulting in a cooler green.

[optimaforever]

I guess it's a question of "cultural taste".
Here in Belgium I feel Thomas' grass is great, if a bit saturated.
There a lot of clients that like "happiness" more than "realness" so the saturation please them.
And the yellow hue gives more warmth than a strict cool green.

Example: For me:

is clearly too green-saturated
and

is too dark and cold, and too desaturated.

This

is neutral and

this

is nicely happier (and very close to Skatter default grass).