Enchanting magic with simplicity is your super power!
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Some fantastic work in this thread! 
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Thanks a lot, guys! 
@btft, this is 1.66 beta
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I just looove SSS
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Are these all planes? Iām looking for repeating grass blades or a pattern and I donāt really see any so great job!
Excellent work 
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Fantastic. Best Nomad grass ever!
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Wow incredible grass!
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Thanks guys!
I did 5 strands around 400 verts each. Could be done with a lot less if u donāt need textures. The rest is multiplication with insert tool.
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This is lovely to see! When I studied 3D years ago most animators were great at modelling but settled for the plastic materials offered. Mapping textures was my joy. I love tweaking textures and light settings for realism so itās great to see some tangible textures happening and having a good eye for randomness balance is a big part of that. Beautiful grass. tbf though Iād probably want to mucky it up a bit ie add a set with 3 blades with some kind of surface defect like broken or chomped or sun burned.
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Thanks for your kind words and advice!
Iāve used many softwares for modeling and texturing/painting, but Nomad is simply the best, hands down!
Nothing else gives such experience of butter-smooth, UV-less, non-destructive painting. Simultaneous roughness, metalness, colour painting and sculpting. And on top of that we have powerful topology independent layer system for maximum control. Only negative side is that in order to increase texture resolution we have to increase the density of the mesh, but if we complement texture details with geometry details we get dope quality realistic stuff. Realtime! On mobile!
Hereās another shot:
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ā complement texture details with geometry detailsā
Way back when I was taught 3D modelling and mapping by an excellent teacher that is what he taught. I think of it as an extension of reasoning behind storyboards.
We were taught to do 2d animation first so we knew how to plan what is in screen then when we were taught about not building in 3D but for camera view in the same way that tv and film sets are built it makes sense to story board (or sketch for stills) first so you can budget your efforts to where they are most valuable.
To that my learning about art and film also taught me how our eyes move around on an image and that those focal points are where textural details have great impact and the geometry can be used to influence how the viewerās eye travels to that detailā¦ because there is that whole subtext to the image/footage of the story if the viewerās journey through the view. A pleasant wandering a, sharp surprise. Things of that nature,
Oh, by the way I wasnāt intending to advise you to change anythingā¦ I have no idea where you want to take what your doing or why and it is string impressive workā¦ I guess I was just musing about what Iād like to doā¦ I wish I hadnāt mentioned it now, I sometimes get completely distracted by what other people say i should do with my own work so I could do better respecting that with others,
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Loved this so many times I kept turning the like heart on and off.
I had no idea yiu had so much work on this page. Iāll have to spend a lot longer looking.
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I did a smal vid/example of complementing texture detail with geometry and vice-versa.
Thanks for your input! I absolutely agree with you. 2D rules for composition apply in 3D and having a good composition in a complex scene is half of the work done.
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Hey @Genko3D,
Iāve tried working on a texturing in Nomad in current project and canāt seem to make it into fluent experience. 
Can you share your approach?
It seems that youāre not doing UV painting but rather vertex painting on very highly subdivided mesh.
Is that correct? 
Hey man,
As i wrote before i use vertex paint as it gives much better results especially in combination with geometric details and i donāt like going back and forth to procreate or pc.
Usually i start with a rough texture and then i go into details. I donāt subdivide the whole mesh only locally with dyno topo wherever needed. See some of my previous videos in this topic or check the Tuts and tips section of the forum.
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Would you mind at all sharing a few of your collection, so we could have a play with?
I spent a while on polyhaven.com earlier downloading packs (textures). They generally include a normal, diff, displacement, sometimes a roughā¦
But just messing about with these PBRs ā¦ (uploaded a simple cube to sketchfab) and applied a few textures, I could not get them looking anywhere near as good as the results shown on polyhaven.comā¦ fail day 
I donāt know where is Bezzoās collection from, but Iāve found some nice textures in textures.com. If you are willing to pay you can get very high rez.
You canāt use normal maps in Nomad. Roughness would be tricky. Common workflow is to use diffuse and/or displacement maps.
oh! hohoho fantastic model!
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