So I really wanted to do the bonus movie. Well I did, but I crashed Blender 4 times trying to render 120 frames. I turned everything down. I just have a small laptop. I would also like to thank capa14 for the help. I did go and model my own grass 1 blade 3 colors and only 512 triangles. As, well I turned my light path down. Thank you again capa14 your advice was a big help. The 3rd picture is with the grass I modeled.
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You’re welcome Cyndi! Glad you found it helpful.
Still 1:14 hrs to render think it’s too much yet…
Maybe you overdid your grass leaf? 530 tris is one leaf ?
Like, my grass leaf is like this:
Subsurf 0 - 10 tris
Subsurf 1 - 40 tris
Subsurf 2 - 160 tris
Off-Topic: Did you know you can save the image you rendered?
Then you can post the image full size, each hard rendered pixel, instead of a shot of blender 
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I will try the subsurface, thank you. Yeah, my max render is 4 pixel at time, with no option to boost. I really need a much better computer.
Random question: when you said you made your grass mesh, you meant that you literally made the blades as a mesh rather than as planes, right?
@Cyndi – I also have a poor computer b/c of its age. We’re both in the same boat 
; I found ways to tone it down that has to do with bounces. Probably not the best thing ever, but…you gotta work with what you got, eh?
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Yes @LucidityOfPower it’s on the post above how I did it. That screenshot IS my grass blade.
I only used this simple mesh and applied to the hair particles with some randomness.
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Gotcha. Thank you! I will be doing tufts of grass and randomize it that way. Useful advice =D
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Yes, following capa14’s advice and making my own grass saved my computer a lot of trouble. I then went and followed more advice and cleaned the scene and files up a bit more. Those squares were killing my computer.
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Good info. I’m making grass patches to use for some variation and I’ll be using a few blades for that as well.
My progress with one patch:
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Dude looks cool, BUT think that’s too much !
Ofc you can use this here and there, but I believe a field of this will tank your PC…
But try anyway, if doesn’t crash might look good! 
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Ha, you’re probably right. I’ll mix it in with single-blade grass to see how it goes. I will make my next clump less polygons. I hope it doesn’t crash X_X like you said from running memory or whatever.
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