How do you feel about the new tree models?
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Big improvement! Would be nice to see some varried textures in the future
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leaves too blurry, collective leaves also shaped too much like a ball
Couldn’t agree more!
helo, its me again, so heres what i think
i love them, but the bottom roots/logs feels weird to me. for example:
those middle broken logs looks nice, because they have this polygonal shape of pentagons
However the bottom roots/logs looks kind of full circular and less thick, and at least for me they look somehow out of place (which is ironic because those should be the most thick and less circulars ones)
basically they look like the left ones, but probably would better if they were like the right ones? maybe not triangular but at least with more random shapes like the above of them, and thicker
this would give this kind of look
or from this
to this
for the rest, i really liked the new leaves and the inner side of the logs, for real the only thing i could imagine that could be better would be those bottom logs/roots. i dont mind at all the leaves being blurry because they always has been like that
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Well lets see if this post was not for naught.
After having had a first look at them through static screenshots a while back and now finally having some time to boot up the game and make an assesment of the trees. I would have multiple things to say.
First of all they feel like a upgrade but a sort of weird one at best.
The maple tree when viewed from above gives of a good looking round shape
When you viewed from the side though some leaves just stick out abruptly should probably be more smoothed to give of a round shape.
Instead of flattening or pointing upward they should slightly angle downward to again give of a round shape when viewed from the side.
For the birch trees I would only have to fault two thing that being the same I mentioned about the leaves sticking out weirdly and the other is that the blurry repetitive pattern line texture for the bark is just bad and should be replaced with the one the speedtrees had.
There was also a third thing I wanted to mention but I will mention that lastly.
For the pine trees the weird open space under it looks off.
I think some leaves should extrude from the exposed log horizontally to just cover this empty space.
What I also picked up on is that the leaves have been stretched inticated by the stretched glitter and that the tree top is just this weird 4 face angled top which creates this hole at the top.
Should probably use a straight aligned leave like the skybox LOD for the top of the tree.
The Germany Pine trees also look weirdly odd.
The trunk looks to thin to uphold the entire tree it should be made way more thicker and also should lower the leaves more to the ground because the trunk itself looks so empty when standing in the forest.
One of my questions would be what happened to the high resolution texture distant versions while looking at the first versions of the screenshots that were posted and seeing trees that were much further away that they had still retained their look.
But by looking at them now ingame they have become a disapointment that the trees have become these abominations of flat low resolution cardboard cutouts.
Can we atleast get like a toggle to turn on higher res facing textures or is that too much to ask?
Lastly perplexingly making a realisation that I had assumed to have been included with the original speedtrees but wasnt which was that with every single tree placed it would have randomness applied to its visuals besides size and rotation.
Every single one of these maple trees has 3 cut off branches at the exact same position.
So as a small suggestion which probably is a bit of effort to setup why not give the trees random generated branches to prevent this repetitiveness.
TLDR: They need some ironing out like a lot.
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I like them. Glad to see vanilla assets gradually being brought up to modern standards.
The roots of the trees are all pretty weird in my opinion. Weird to have them all so clearly visible on every instance of tree placed. Maybe some more variation for the roots and perhaps don’t have them start so high up on the stump every time.
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Just to bump this post and also show something off
Love how the green maple trees just has this large gaping hole on the side
Looked around on PEI and picked up on this second one too
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Thank you to everyone who has shared feedback so far! I think the issues raised warrant adjustment and revision (ideally in one of the next couple updates), but not so serious as to push back the screenshot contest.
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