Kammerbild offers six tips for creating better grass billboards for environments and real-time engines.

In this new tutorial from Kammerbild, he shares six tips for getting better-looking grass billboards in your work. A popular method for creating vegetation and foliage is to have images on cards that get cut out with transparency, hence the name billboards. The image-card technique can look a little unrealistic, but you can do some simple things to make them look better.

The key comes in creating the illusion of randomness.

In a previous tutorial, Kammerbild showed how to place a lot of greenery around a scene and create the illusion of wind to make it look slightly more natural.