I programmed a forest generator and made a rainforest with it. What do you think about it?
There will be more forest in the background later.
Update: Randomized ground texture and a few new plants.
Thanks for any feedback.
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Looks really good! I would make the leaf colors more dark green for a bigger difference.
I would suggest adding this module for your game, it adds movement and shaking to the trees.
WindShake module by boatbomber
Also I see a place for those type of tree ropes where you can swing on, maybe you’ve seen those in some film.
Over all looks great!
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Thanks for the ideas!
I can probably add the tree ropes as a way to cross a river.
Do you mean making the leaf color range bigger or just generally making the leaves darker?
A great way to create more realism…
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Leaf color range towards the darker side. Just so there’s more variety. but I really do like the green colourways you’ve got now.
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Cool is it render type system? or whole map renderer, cuz if it’s short forest render vision it might would be kewl
I’m not sure yet, maybe I’ll just use StreamingEnabled, or create something similar myself.
Hi,
Excellent build on your trees, how are you making your models?
I have wanted to build and looked at pic of the amazons rainforest for awhile, due to the unique trees, bush and foliage it has.
I think you nailed it on the tree on the left with the large lower fan like expansion at the base… also if possible try to have curves on them like an S or such, (not a whole S, but just not straight down).. also they can be bigger height wise and expand out.
On the right on your image, I like the spider web like tree trunk, that is spot on also .
next steps I would say is starting to fill it in with smaller plants like vines connecting from tree to tree, ferns, small bushes etc, also dead decaying stuff on the floor…
next you pimp it up with some vfx , like fog / mist flowing through… use one of the OS weather modules and have some light rain cruise by.. sound effects… monkey… birds… tree frogs
also a water source.. could be stagnate ponds, small creeks and rivers..
excellent job, keep posting your updates.
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This rainforest looks good! Nice job on making the forest generator! I rate it 10/10! Detailed and cool!
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Thanks for your detailed feedback.
Excellent build on your trees, how are you making your models?
Mostly I use blender with the skin + subdivision surface modifier. The big tree left is just an cylinder. The leaves of the bigger trees are just simple icospheres, for the smaller tree/bushes I made the leaves more detailed.
Good idea with the curved tree stump, I’m gonna make some new models.
vines connecting from tree to tree
Maybe I can do that with beams or something similar, so it works with my generation script.
It stands out a bit too much, but I can probably fix that.
I’ll post again, once I added some more plants and other stuff to it.