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Here is a quick way of making grass. You need to have at least Cinema 4D Release 9.5 and the Hair plug-in to follow this tutorial. But similar effects can also be created with the free Hair Department.
Making Grass
Create a Plane object and press the Add Hair button. This created a new Hair object and a default hair texture will be assigned to it. Leave all hair settings to default for the moment.
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Make sure the Hair object is activated and select the hair scale tool (Hair > Tools > Scale). Use this tool to bring the future grass to the desired length (either by using the tool controls in the attributes manger or by clicking and dragging in the viewport).
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Now select the brush tool (Hair > Tools > Brush). Adjust the radius and bring in some variation in the grass. Make sure to rotate the viewport and work on all sites of the object.
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This is it for the 'modeling' :) Now select the hair material. Three channels are activated by default: Color, Specular and Thickness. This is what you should see when you do a quick render of your scene.