Foliage

Since I saved foliage for the last steps in my thesis I referencing a really nice set of tutorials that will allow me to add nice realistic textures to my grass, and will be able to be randomized on every blade using a script that he provides. Then I will be using Tree cards, and Grass cards to lower rendering time since foliage is very render intensive.

Rendered image from tutorial

 I got some really good randomization on the grass that add very nice dimension.

Rendered grass from my scene