Desert Vegetation

[Michaeleba]

I am working on a route in Southern California. I am looking for desert vegetation. I know JVC Treez had some good payware at one time. I am running TRS19. Does any have any suggestions?

Thank You
Michael

 

[Forester1]

Check out a lot of the Uintah and Timber Ridge plant and tree assets that Dangavel has uploaded to the DLS. He has done a LOT of work to make his desert plants look lifelike for his routes. If you want to have a look, check his route threads under the freeware and screenshot forums, or download the routes and try them!

 

[PC_Ace]

Does your TRS19-Platinum edition give you access to the T:ANE (Dlx) built-in <kuid2:487560:69000:6> Mojave Sub Division ?
That has some fairly convincing desert scrub and cacti that you can plunder.

 

[grazlash]

There are also several built in ones, search "plant" in surveyor. Lay them all out and pick the ones that suit your route.

 

[schweitzerdude]

Another idea which I have done:

Look for trees that would look good for desert shrubs, if only they weren't full sized trees. I have done this using several of the built-in eucalypt trees. Lower the height until it looks like a desert shrub. Do it a few more times with the same or different trees. Be sure to randomly rotate some. Then group them together until you get the density you want - not too dense. Then tools/copy/paste/rotate wherever you want.

 

[PC_Ace]

In TRS19 I created a single-board route where I laboriously planted - in rows - an example of every single tree/ plant that the Platinum-edition had to offer.
I used it as a reference for choosing or avoiding particular trees for any new route I was creating at the time.
The 'plantation' takes some time to create initially - but it saves a lot of time and effort when seeking out the perfect vegetation options for the new route you're creating later.

Note that there's also a built-in route from Auran that contains content samples of various assets, including desert vegetation, included in TRS19 and TRS22.
<kuid2:661281:200019:8> Content Samples #1 (TRS19 version)
If you hover your mouse over the plants/ items in Route edit... 'Objects, Get Object...' mode, it will reveal the name of the asset so you can choose to include - or exclude - that item from your own route creations.