Along the River Silverstrand

Nathraiben · Moderator Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 63 Location: Austria

Since I'm not feeling well enough to work, yet not sick enough to stay in bed and bum around, I started working on a new area, part of the riverside road along the Silverstrand (does that name sound strange in English? Embarassed

).

Of COURSE I had to do another tree-intensive area, and of COURSE it had to be right when I foolishly installed the new patch, thus rendering all the nifty plugins useless so I had to place each and every tree by hand... Rolling Eyes

(I'm roughly at 25% re-seeding those §$"&$"%"§!§"% things)

Best of all, I'm not even sure this one will work for Rhydin - it runs just fine on my machine, yet I fear on lower systems this might be quite laggy. Lots of trees, lots of sounds and a hell lot of grass (cattail all over the river and tall grass around most of the trees - they just look really weird without the grass).

But, hey - it's less laggy than West Harbor during the fair... Rolling Eyes

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Nathraiben · Moderator Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 63 Location: Austria

Yay... though this might sound a bit masochistic, I'm actually glad I had to re-seed those trees by hand... it took a while, but at least I could bend them to look a bit more like what I had in mind when I started this whole mess!

Ah, well... it's back to bed for me - once you realize your skin's more pale than the (white) chinaware you're drinking your tea from, it's definitely time to stop fooling around... Rolling Eyes

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IskatuMesk · Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm Post subject:

I really messed with the seed numbers and it really didn't seem to change my trees much. Care to enlighten on how exactly it works?
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SorceressAshura · Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 8:59 pm Post subject:

Beautiful work Nathraiben, as always. I can definitely use that area too. There alot of huge rivers that go through the heart of Rhydin. Theres actually a tale about that particular geography. How the rivers resemble the face of a fallen goddess. As long as you dont use more then 5 types of trees. Its good.

Nathraiben · Moderator Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 63 Location: Austria

It also depends on the tree how much the random seed will modify your trees.
(I used 4 different kinds of trees, and while the seed had quite a huge impact on the other 3, the changes to the angelica tree were rather subtle)

To get the best results, I just simply started with a random one-digit number and randomly added more digits until I got a shape I liked (roughly - just as Sorceress said, you can later fine-tune things by scaling your trees).