Problem of Thin Instance

[CrashMaster]

For all things grass we have this thread that covers a lot of different methods:

Field of grass?

Prefacing this question by saying I have no idea what I’m doing. Been reading for a few days about how I could make a field of grass, and curious if my conclusion is roughly right. As far as I can tell, there is no geometry shader, but if there was then this would be a good option. The other methods are: this method thin instances/solid particle system to place pieces of grass. Then for wind blowing across a field, using a shader to handle the motion, or animating the texture, node material, …