07/26/2007 Thanks to 3DCyborg which is an italian 3D CG comunity site we now have officially an italian SuperGrass website. The webmaster of 3DCyborg was kindly enough to translate the guide for italian speaking people as well and host it. So for all italian speaking please visit here. Thank you!

07/22/2007 Updated the guide section now covers also grass bundle and basic lawn creation. More to follow in the future

07/17/2007 Sorry we have been a bit slow with updating this project lately. Mostly because we were pretty busy (also with other projects soon to be coming) and besides it is holiday season. We hope further updates will be coming faster again! Thanks for all the comments so far please let them rolling in since this provides us feedback on how the plug-in is perceived and provides us future possible upgrades! Thank you! But please make sure your comments are in english since that is the most accessible language for us!
Release of Version 0.65b
Summary of new stuff:

• Fixed Max crash when canceling bitmap heightfield textures
• Fixed Max crash when canceling bitmap probability textures
• Fixed that all lawn parameters are now animateable
• Added bending control in lawn mower modifier. Grass blades that are mowed will now bend into the mowing direction
• Added translucency to the M~R grass shader

05/15/2007 Release of Version 0.56b
Hotfix for Max 7. Thanks to JAF who thankfully pointed out that the plug-in does not work in Max7. We made a hotfix for that. This version includes now a seperate build for Max7 and it should work.

05/13/2007 Release of Version 0.55b
Finally we have put another release together should be boosting productivity with the Plug-in and also some new features. Summary of new stuff:

• Changed workflow now parameter changes after creation of a lawn patch will effect the current lawn patch so interactive parameter changes are now possible
• Added lawn mower modifier. Allows to cut segments (rectangular or circle) or the whole lawn to a given length. Like a real lawn mower
• Fixed Mental Ray shader problem when using dried mode and background
• Fixed some minor update problems with animations

AFK is proud to bring you the first initial release of Super Grass (Version 0.4b) a free 3D plug-in for Autodesk 3D Studio Max. This plug-in allows you to create single grass blades, grass bundles, grass lawn patches or complete grass lawns. It is very flexible interfaces allows the usage of heightfield data, vectorfield data, and probability data in form of maps to influence the position, bending and appearance of each individual grass blade in a complete lawn and therefore additionally allows the visualization of heightfield or vectorfield data sets. Included in the bundle is a special Mental Ray grass shader for 3D Studio Max. Do you need a grass landscape? A lawn for your outdoor architectural visualization or for your landscape visualization? Then have no more worries with this easy to use plug-in you finally can create your dream grass lawn. Just go to the download section of this page and download the beta version of this free plug-in today!