Trees on mountains

[kin3]

I see these routes with tree covered hills and mountains. Is there a way to mass produce trees on the hills and mountains?
The tree groups are not very big or not the ones I want to use. What I have been doing is planting a bunch then copy and paste. Is there a better way?

The same for grass.

 

[Euphod]

None that I'm aware of.

 

[Thai1On]

I'm with Ed on this one. The only way to to cover them thar hills and mountains in my KY. route is to copy n paste a few hundred or more times

Dave

 

[Vern]

Yep, copy and paste it is, rotating the tool as you go. My current route project has quite a large area of forest but it's honestly not that hard or time consuming to do. It also gives a less uniform appearance than using the forest objects in MSTS or the bulk object decal in Railworks. One tip, if you're putting the trees on a steep incline it might be worth lowering the initial batch slightly into the ground before copying, to give a better fit on the slopes.

 

[kin3]

Thanks guys.:'(

 

[JCitron]

I'm with Ed on this one. The only way to to cover them thar hills and mountains in my KY. route is to copy n paste a few hundred or more times

Dave

Yup...I can't think of any other way. The problem though is all the trees end up facing the same direction like soldiers lined up for a march. This happens no matter how much we try to rotate the patches.


John

 

[Dan_Hat]

Try finding some tree splines on DLS, Use them to build up layers away from the track then use the indivdual trees closer down

 

[Scottish]

I do not use tree splines because they are a framerate killer. I use individual trees in groups then copy and paste these groups. It does not take much time and by rotating the paste with the [ or ] key you get a good effect.

Scottish

 

[Dermmy]

NO! Don't use splines for 'broadacre' cover, your computer will die LOL.

Copy pasting an area of individual trees and ground texture is the way to go. To avoid the trees and texture all eventually defaulting to 'north facing' (or whatever) always copy from the same original area and don't paste the same 'set' too often in succession. Don't 'Paste' right up to trackside either, place individual trees where they are clearly seen. The fact that the distant canopy tends to get too 'uniform' doesn't much matter, distant hillside canopies ARE fairly uniform....

 

[Jananton]

May I add, that when finished copying and pasting, it's wise to do some pruning in the more distant places from the tracks.
Most users of your route won't go astray in the woods and from the viewing points of the track location you'll hardly notice the less dense vegetation in the further away areas. Also for distant locations use the more low poly tree types if possible.

Gretings from nighttime Amsterdam,

Jan