While researching tracks for lawn mower racing, I found that most of them used hay stacks as barriers to the track. So I created a hay stack model, as seen above, and I intended to place all around the track. However, due to the following reasons, I wont be doing this:
First of all, it doesnt really look like a convincing hay stack. The cube body can be seen too easily. I wanted the individual hay strands to blend into the cube and make it look more realistic. It just didnt work.
Second, when it is rendered from a certain distance, the individual strands do not show. This is probably due to the fact that they are so small. So from the angle that I would be animating at, the hay stacks would just look like cubes.
Finally, the main reason for not using this model is that this model alone contains over 30000 polygons. It takes my laptop a few seconds to render this model alone. So my laptop, and most likely almost every other computer would seriously stuggle to render several of these models, as well as having animated models surronding it.
So for these reasons, I will be using the black and white plastic type barriers found on some other race tracks, as well as advertising banners.
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