Just Grass!

This is literally Just Grass! Some simple RnD I did for rendering fields of grass in a relatively cheap and visually pleasing way in Unreal Engine 4.
Here I am using individual mesh strands to represent blades of grass instead of the traditional alpha card approach. I find this to be better when wanting to do large fields, avoiding the often huge overdraw problems of cards. And it turns out using individual strands is a perfect match for Unreals PivotPainter Workflow, making each blade bend and move independently in the wind!

Performance wise, what you see in the video is 0.4-0.5 ms on the GBuffer in 1080p on my regular Geforce1080. Which I think is ok since when you have fields like this your rarely have much else close to render.
The Heightfield was provided by my colleague Darko Pracic
https://www.artstation.com/darpra123
This was done in my free time, using my own assets, but for the purpose of using in development of our games at Embark Studios.
https://www.embark-studios.com/