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Use XGen to create grass - Maya Tutorial
From the course: Maya: Tips, Tricks & Techniques
Use XGen to create grass
Hi, I'm George Maestri, and today we're going to take a look at grass. And we're going to create some simple grass using the XGen plugin. Now if you've never used XGen before this is a great way to get introduced to this really powerful module. So I've got a very simple scene here. I've got a ground plane, I've got a tree, and then I've got a background of clouds. Now that background of clouds is actually attached to a camera as an image plane. And we can see that by going into perspective, camera one. And that shows us the scene that we're going to play with. Now if we want to create grass in XGen, we need to get to the XGen plugin. And we can do that in our shelves by going to the XGen shelf. Now in order to do this I need to select the ground plane. And then, the easiest way to do this is to use the Xgen window. So I'm going to go ahead and open this up and it comes up as a tab along this sidebar here. Now we have a couple of options here. And the one we're interested in is…
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Create environments using Camera Match9m 54s
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Create rope and pulley assemblies with nHair10m 8s
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Get the best quality out of Arnold renders7m 59s
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Glass and refractive surfaces in Arnold10m 53s
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Volumetric lighting in Arnold7m 59s
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Rig cartoon eyes9m 58s
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Model a threaded hex head bolt15m 15s
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Model a threaded nut12m 40s
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Use XGen to create grass9m 55s
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Attract a moth to a light MASH9m 32s
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Create tracks in the snow9m 35s
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Make characters lift objects6m 49s
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Model a car tire9m 50s
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Remove legacy mental ray nodes12m 1s
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Create wireframe renders using toon shaders6m 43s
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Rig and animate a tank track15m 54s
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Understanding wrap deformers in Maya7m 17s
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Create simple hair using XGen7m 31s
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Bump and displacement mapping in Arnold9m 5s
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Work with emissive shaders in Arnold7m
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Create replacement animation9m 24s
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Model and rig a flower bloom8m 1s
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Quick fluids using nCloth10m 31s
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UV unwrapping a head13m 58s
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Improve interactivity in Viewport 2.06m 17s
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Animate a metal chain using nCloth8m 6s
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Write a script to toggle Arnold opacity10m 33s
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Render an x-ray effect in Arnold9m 1s
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Simulate red blood cells in an artery14m 2s
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Create a stencil with layered shaders10m 24s
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Rig a coiled spring4m 59s
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Use the Maya Cleanup tool to fix bad geometry9m 44s
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Environmental lighting in Arnold11m 29s
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Render 360-degree images in Arnold4m 58s
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Understanding the Measure Tools6m 25s
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Using substance textures in Arnold7m 36s
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Using bonus tools5m 16s
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Rig a skeleton quickly7m 32s
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Model a vehicle impact using nCloth8m 10s
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Animate with Walk Cycle Control6m 17s
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Using the Turtle renderer8m 14s
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Bake normal maps in Turtle7m 36s
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Create ribbons and tubes using Curves8m 49s
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Vehicle rendering in Arnold: Glass9m 57s
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Vehicle rendering in Arnold: Car paint9m 47s
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Vehicle rendering in Arnold: Chrome and metal7m 22s
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