Boleyage!

[sniper297]

Foliage inspired by Dick Boley, that is. :wave: Working on a route, using a lot of Dave Drake's undergrowth6 splines, read one of Boley's posts griping about the monocolor foliage, said to myself "Self. Yo Self! SELF! PAY ATTENTION! " Dick is right, need some subtle variations so it looks more realistic.

So I cloned Drake's undergrowth and started working on variations. Hard to do, too much variation it looks weird, too subtle and there's no point doing it at all.

Still looking into how to add some kind of light 0 tag or something to get rid of the odd illuminated effect from certain angles. Half a dozen different textured undergrowth splines randomly overlapping along the right of way starts to look kinda realistic.

 

[philskene]

Jim --

That looks real good.

 

[boleyd]

You could cheat and overlay two different splines.

 

[sniper297]

That's the whole point, after some searching around DMDrake's undergrowth6 spline is the only one I could find that looked halfway realistic, needs something with a different texture to overlay with. What DID happen to undergrowth1 through undergrowth5 anyway?

Tried to post more pics but the forum is giving me script error loops today, so I posted them back at headquarters;

http://www.trainsim.com/vbts/showthread.php?310266-Undergrowth-splines

 

[sniper297]

On the black pages now;

undergrowth_6a,<kuid:522774:100597>
undergrowth_6b,<kuid:522774:100602>
undergrowth_6c,<kuid:522774:100603>
undergrowth_6d,<kuid:522774:100604>
undergrowth_6e,<kuid:522774:100615>
undergrowth_6f,<kuid:522774:100613>
undergrowth_6g,<kuid:522774:100686>
undergrowth_6h,<kuid:522774:100687>

And I think Dick would approve;

 

[sniper297]

Made a clone of my current route project for some destructive testing, so far hasn't affected the framerates at all.