How do you thin out trees?

[railroy19]

I want to thin out a lot of my routes of their trees. Most of them do not show up anyway from the engine cab. Is there a way to delete them from a route all at once. Or do I have to copy and paste some texture and just delete the trees that way.
Open for suggestions!

Thanks,
Bob

 

[ray_whiley]

You could copy and paste an area of blank baseboard - it might mean adding a board somewhere to copy and deleting it later.

You could delete trees from a small area of your route, then copy and paste that area.

However, if you really want to 'thin out' your trees, ie. removing some from an area but leaving others more thinly spaced, then one-by-one seems to me to be the only way; or you could do this for a small area then copy and paste (remembering to rotate). But using this latter way might lead to a pattern which is too repetitive.

Ray

 

[railroy19]

Thanks Ray

I have done that. Was hoping someone figured out a better solution
My computer can run all of the routes in trainz but some of them have so many trees that the best FPS I can get is about 30. That and the grass splines are killers. Guess I will have to get out the chain saw and the weed whacker

Thanks again Ray.

 

[sniper297]

Agent Orange.

Speedtrees are a PITA since most have them silly "privileges" set so you can't replace them with something else. What I did for one route was to select all the speedtree dependencies in TS12 content mangler, save to CDP, import into TS2010 overwriting the originals, then edited to delete the privileges data. After that I replaced in surveyor with a custom object I use just for that, a pink and green striped cooling tower I use for markers. Back to content mangler, delete the weird marker, back to surveyor, delete missing assets and save. Then back to content mangler and reinstall my weird marker. Trouble with that is it gets ALL the trees of the same type, but getting rid of them all and planting new ones is often less tedious than trying to delete them all.

 

[boleyd]

I take a reasonable size forested area and hand thin it. Then Copy it followed by Pasting the copy over-top of the thick forest area. This allows retention of any variety. However the rectangular shape of the Copy/Paste area can make for awkward thinning at times. Re-copy/paste a smaller thinned area helps here.