Grasslands with Koinobori Kites
Wrapping up this project for the spring! This was a quick one, main focus was the grass and getting some nice movement in the scene. Also was nice to learn about the Koinobori kites that represent koi fish for Children's Day in Japan! This event happens on May 5th.
Concept:
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Ar5mKz
Wind tutorial for foliage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pfcBaRcVOI&t=585s
3 kinds of flowers are spawned facing in different directions, I find there is better control this way than relying on the rotation in the foliage spawner tool.
The grass itself was made to look flowy in the alpha itself rather than just relying on the wind.
Darker grass added to introduce some interesting variation in the grass.
Followed a great tutorial for this (link in the description).
The main key was to add a rotate about axis node for the plants to get the nice 'bending' of the flowers.