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What is the Secret to Making Beautiful Trees?
childofdarkness016:
Treebuilding seems to be some complex skill that only a select few people seem to understand. Are any of you guys here good at doing it? If so, could you perhaps show me how to make an acacia tree with a low brickcount? I've tried several times, but I never made anything decent. Also, it would be really nice if you could share some of your techniques. Thanks!
Blockguy345:
use rounds
Conan:
--- Quote from: Blockguy345 on February 15, 2014, 01:52:16 PM ---use rounds
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i'd advise against this until you can actually build blocky trees first, using plates and bricks. until you can pull off something decent using those any attempt at using rounds will probably kill the look.
imo the best way to get a tree done, with detail, is to build the tree trunk, branches, etc in the shape I want, then fill it out with leaves, adding extra branches where necessary. this can be done using many different sizes and thicknesses of bricks to raise or lower the detail level.
a recognizable acacia tree probably can't be done with a low brickcount, unless you're just going for the general shape.
childofdarkness016:
--- Quote from: Conan on February 15, 2014, 03:05:09 PM ---a recognizable acacia tree probably can't be done with a low brickcount, unless you're just going for the general shape.
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Yeah, I'm just going for a basic shape so I can edit/duplicate it for a small map.
alex dude:
Try working on the x2 grid for the bark, that's always helped me, also I generally use these bricks for building it: