Arrowhead

wow i love it ! :D The amusement park by the river is simply stunning. i also love the way u plop the trees. any tips in doing so?

What a gorgeous amusement park! I'd love to see some close-up shots!

traffic jam!

@tigeria - these are the things i keep in mind when plopping trees.....use the trees to hide the grid layout of SC4 (this has been my #1 tree plopping philosophy...and i hope that when people look at Arrowhead they forget that they're looking at a city that's laid out on a grid)........now to go about using them to hide the grid, place trees in large bare spaces between buildings or other things...most of the lots in SC4 will let you drag trees over them....next, you have to stop and focus on one scene and pretend you're a landscape architect and ask yourself things like "would it look good to place a tree neer the street corner? should i get it close enough so that the branches overhang the street edge and hide the grid look of it? do i want to cover the bare landscape completely with trees, or leave random bare spaces to put in some other type of landscape..like i also use scrub/brush, small rocks, big rocks, etc.,".............next, the key to all art is balance. after plopping trees they need to balance with their other surroundings. sometimes i have put too many trees in an area, and go back and RANDOMLY delete some of them in RANDOM places in that specific area. I capped RANDOM because it's really key to making realistic plopping. I don't mean plop trees in random places, but once you figure out a spot you want them, plop them in that spot randomly. Also, to give you an example...you see how i went in and plopped the trees inside Six Flags Boulder Canyon near the rides and along the walkways? I did this to hide the grid layout look that the park orignially had. And remember that even though buildings and stuff have to be placed on grids, the trees don't, and you can even make curves with trees. Use the freedom of the tree plopping to your advantage. Hope this helps! If you've got any more questions, don't hesitate to ask!

@TekindusT - if you right click the pics on this page and my other ones, you can click view image or something similar to that and they will come up much larger so you can see the detail better!

thanks for the great advice! I'm trying the methods you told me and it does make alot of difference. But at some points of time, i felt mine lacked the randomness. haha. perhaps I clicked and dragged too systematically.