To all you mappers: How do get good looking grassland

[Leiknir]

I was cycling through maps right now, and many of the maps have the same "error", you use the "turf" texture to make grassland, but turf is turf and not grassland.
The main difference is, grass spawns on grassland (the small 2d thingies props,it only spawns after you reopen the scene, though), not on turf. Looks quite nice on high grafic settings. Also, grassland gets slight varieties in its colour by itself, making the map look "fresher".
How to get grassland? Just delete textures (middle mouse while in texture paint mode).

Turf is nice where you want turf, but big areas of it in the wildernes just look wrong.

Example of the difference:
Picture 1 is pure grassland, Picture 2 nearly pure "turf", with a small stripe of grassland to the left

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[zagibu]

Yep, and a related tip is to use another texture directly below props, so that no grass pokes out of them (e.g. path or turf). After reload, grass will disappear where something else than grassland is painted.

[MountedRhader]

Thanks for the tip!

[Leiknir]

added pictures, so you can see what I am talking about

[Ronan]

Ive been wanting to do tall grass. Grass that go above your head. Is there any good-looking way to do that. I stretch em but it looks pixelated to me. I do have graphics down low because my computer really is a POS. But I love making maps. Doing a battle map right now. Want to give infintry "highgrass cover" for anti horse, and anti archer without them having to skirt around an object..

[Leiknir]

Ive been wanting to do tall grass. Grass that go above your head. Is there any good-looking way to do that. I stretch em but it looks pixelated to me. I do have graphics down low because my computer really is a POS. But I love making maps. Doing a battle map right now. Want to give infintry "highgrass cover" for anti horse, and anti archer without them having to skirt around an object..

Kung Fu Jesus:Bridge Over Troubled Waters and Chagan_Arslan:River Delta got a similar effect with mass bushes

[Kung Fu Jesus]

I like tall grasses too. All my maps have some of it. But I agree it is pixelated unfortunately. Some are less so but you'd just have to experiment with them. .

Also, good tip on the grass popping up issue. I hadn't thought of that.