Topic: [Game World] Trees

My plan is to include all kinds of different trees. Some with (almost) straight trunks and some with (more) bended ones. Also there will be different trees for different climate zones including cacti for our deserts .

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OMG, Widelands is not the real world. Remember that palm trees grow in greenlands (wasn’t it winterlands too?), though they normally don’t do that in our world. (I must admit, that still strikes me strange when I see them growing on a meadow, but that’s another topic…)

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fraang wrote:

My plan is to include all kinds of different trees. Some with (almost) straight trunks and some with (more) bended ones. Also there will be different trees for different climate zones including cacti for our deserts .

If so: Great work! Nice Baobab!

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Venatrix wrote:

Remember that palm trees grow in greenlands (wasn’t it winterlands too?), though they normally don’t do that in our world. (I must admit, that still strikes me strange when I see them growing on a meadow, but that’s another topic…)

Actually, palm trees are more adaptable than people give them credit for. there are several of them in rome (although they are not native), and while rome is known for a warm climate, sub-freezing temperatures happen sporadicallly from november to february, and every decade or two sees a major snowfalll. palms growing there show that they can survive being occasionally blanketed by snow for a few days.

however, palms do not thrive in places where it snows most years, so seeing them as the most common tree in winterland is a bit ridiculous.

For that, it had been proposed to intriduce "tree resources" that would limit tree growth to a certain kind of trees, which could be decided in the map editor. to my knowledge, it has never been tried seriously. But I may have a better idea. Now, terrains have values of humidity, fertility and temperature, and each tree has an optimal range for each of those values. we could add another parameter, "world type", which could be greenland, summer, winter, and wasteland, with the condition: if a land is greenland, only a greenland tree can be planted there. if a land is summer, only a summer tree can grow there, and so on. if a tree is on the boundary between different types of land, a tree must be th type of one of those land, so if you put together summer and greenlland both palms and deciduous trees can grow there, but not mushroom trees. Some leeway could be given for greenland trees to grow in summer, and viceversa, and for greenland trees to grow in winter, and viceversa. palms can grow in temperate climates, and coniferous trees too, but palms ddo not grow in cold climates and coniferous don't grow in the tropics.

As for making giant cact that could be chopped like any other tree, sure, why not? we already have several trees that do not exist in our world for the wasteland terrain, so adding a few imaginary species of cacti would not do any harm in my opinion.

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Maybe we could get rid of humidity, temperature and so on altogether, and introduce biomes, one terrain will belong to one biome and each tree would be linked to one or more biomes

Biomes could correspond to old types of words, but it is not necessary, we can have more biomes....

Or each tree could have one or more biomes where it grows good, another biome(s) where it grows badly, and other biomes where it doesnt grow at all. But spliting to two categories would do as well.

Just thinking...

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