It is now class 5 out of 20 and I believe I have made some decent improvements to my environment already. It might not look like much, but troubleshooting always takes half the time, and now I have a better idea of how to do things in the future. I have managed to get grass on my landscape. I used a small Houdini groom to create hair cards that I was able to use for my grass. This is definitely not an optimized workflow, because the groom is fairly high poly for something that looks so plain. I should have gone the image plane method but, live and learn. This method would probably work best for very specifically placed grass or areas that would have less of it.
I also modeled two flowers to scatter around the terrain and it made a MASSIVE improvement to the overall look of the environment. Totally shifted the mood of the area, making it much brighter, happier, and more whimsical.
For what it is, I am happy with how the terrain is coming out. There’s a few more small things I need to do to it, but it shouldn’t take long to fix it.
Next time: Crystals in the middle of the stump modeled. Possibly some texturing done.