Introducing Grass

[Masquerata (Jesper)]

God, this adds so much depth to the landscape. It even makes my WIP look polished. So hyped for its release!

[Defaultio]

Will this be scriptable at a later release?

[Burgonet]

I sure hope so! There is so much possibilities with this and scripting it could make for some great and unique work.

@ConvexRumbler

Future plans
We are already working on or prototyping these features:

• No specular on the terrain under the grass. Our main visual problem. Coming pretty soon (better then soon ™ right?)
• Decoration painting: Allows you to paint where you want to have a geometry grass and where you dont want to. Currently in phase of prototype.
• Decoration system: The grass is the first step of the complete decoration system where you should be able to automatically decorate any of our terrain materials with custom geometry. We are still working on specification of this system, so I’m not gonna provide much detail here on this one

It’s upsetting that it’s not for future plans

[Sudden_Demise]

The effect grass provides on games is extraordinary. This is an amazing feature.

[LuaPbocaJ]

I think having some variations for the grass would be incredibly, perhaps a option for frost on the grass would look nice.
But otherwise it look great!

[coefficients]

Grass is now live on the client!

Enjoy, and be sure to thank the wonderful team responsible for it!

[Rare_tendo]

I’d like to see how many games will be using this, especially adventure games. It’s a pretty good feature

[AdministratorGnar]

The dynamic grass is appearing on top of the LeafyGrass material on the client but it doesn’t on studio. I’m guessing this a bug? Would be appreciated if this could be fixed as it looks a little weird having grass clipping through every floor. Other than that, the grass looks amazing, thank you for the update.

[144hertz]

Can confirm, same happening for me and a few others.

[mer5000]

Thank you to you and the team, it looks incredible, especially in a post-apocalyptic setting.

[gui110 (GUI)]

Is it just me or grass is showing live in my server right now?
Edit: Never mind, I’ve just read the above post confirming it is in fact live!

[asimo3089]

Please make the client also remove Grass on LeafyGrass. This is how it works in Studio and it’s so nice for hiding grass where you don’t want it.

[AlertShamrock (Anthony)]

I am honestly hyped for this for some odd reason. I will love to see more realistic updates!

[Masonjwright123]

It’s out right now. Go check it out in game

[vrtblox]

this should be fixed as of couple of hours ago. sorry for inconvenience

[xLinkTijgerYT]

@coefficients
Do you happen to know if you guys are releasing an update on terrain anytime soon? There’s a little thing that annoys me and that’s that the terrain still looks a little… 2 dimensional. Will that come included with specular maps and custom materials? Also will you be able to make 3 dimensional materials and use them too?

[Ethanthegrand14 (Ethanthegrand)]

Awesome. But the grass should have adjustable properites (example. GrassHeight, GrassThickness, GrassAnimationSpeed, etc)

[ConvexRumbler]

@xLinkTijgerYT

Do you happen to know if you guys are releasing an update on terrain anytime soon? There’s a little thing that annoys me and that’s that the terrain still looks a little… 2 dimensional. Will that come included with specular maps and custom materials? Also will you be able to make 3 dimensional materials and use them too?

Yes to all of this. I cant provide timing for that, but YES

[xLinkTijgerYT]

Love y’all btw. Y’all making life into creating games and learning physics much more easy and better!

The grass is a cool feature but one thing on mind:

If I would be able to, I would apply then to trees to make moving trees. Also make grass paintable, resizeable in hight and width.

[Spectrabox]

Are there plans to make Terrain.Decoration scriptable? Or is there a different way that it can be enabled/disabled locally? My game already has custom grass, though the custom grass combined with the new grass actually looks quite good in most cases - however the game’s areas were designed without it in mind and it’s not perfect in a lot of cases so I would rather have an option to let players disable it for the ‘classic’ look that the game was designed around, and also have the option of playing with the new grass for a new feel.