How you handle large amounts of grass in your scenes?

[zbieraj]

Wow! I did not see that one in R20 presentation. Oh I can't wait to get my hands on that :). It is good that I skipped upgrade'ing to 19 :D.

[Nejc Kilar]

Wow! I did not see that one in R20 presentation. Oh I can't wait to get my hands on that :). It is good that I skipped upgrade'ing to 19 :D.

If you've skipped R19 entirely you can now buy R19 and get the MSA (aka R20) for free. Just a heads up on that :)

[Eddoron]

I rather wait for 21.
There are no features that are truly new. Some things may be useful but there's nothing I couldn't achieve with either a plugin or Houdini.

Nodes based mats - less clutter and redundancy. Should've been an option since R13. Substance (also Corona, Arnold, Octane, Redshift etc.)
Fields - kinda useful for mograph. Houdini
Volume modeling - basically just booleans with less fucked up topology and a bit faster. Zbrush, Houdini
ProRender - R19 version was LOL
Multiple instances - kinda useful, comes with dynamics limit.
More passes - different renderer, also rather using Cryptomatte.
CAD-Data import - not for me

This is just my opinion and why I would skip that version.  If any of you feels the need, the go and get it.
I just don't want the hype-train to go so fast that it derails. Whenever a new feature gets introduced, it's either broken in some way or mostly useless.

[rozky]

For very huge scenes with lot of instances is Surfacespread 2 or Octanescatter. The rest is just way too slow.
Stefan  confirmed that New multinstances are much faster than SS2 (export time).
Surface spread might get support for multi instances later.
Could someone from developers test new multiinstances and compare it with surfacespread2?
Thank you.

[kraphik3d]

@zbieraj,

Multi-instances in R20 will probably solve most of your problems :) Check the cineversity videos.

You cannot use Corona yet with R20 so don´t bother?
Generating triangles with hair is not a problem.

[zbieraj]

You can now ;).

[kraphik3d]

Cool