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Lodgepole Pine Shrubs
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Lodgepole Pine Shrubs

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Description


The Tree

Lodgepole Pines (Pinus Contorta) cover an extensive range of highlands and coastal ranges of the American west. These conifers grow well in poor soils but require fire events to maintain healthy populations.

Pinus Contorta grows in a few distinct varieties. "Pinus Contorta subsp. Contorta", the Shore Pine, grows near the coast of the Pacific Northwest. The unique twisting shapes make it a popular landscaping tree that demands minimal maintenance.

Inland varieties of Pinus Contorta, including Pinus Contorta Latifolia and Pinus Contorta Murrayana, grow with simpler habits featuring a single main trunk and can grow to substantially taller heights.

Introduction

Thsi turned into a bit of a passion project for me, seeing as Lodgepole Pines might be my favorite tree. They were an iconic visual element of my trips to the Oregon Coast long before I knew their name.

This release is split over three packs.

- Lodgepole Pines: Contains 9 trees representing the taller varieties of Pinus Contorta.

- Shore Pines: Contains 10 trees with unique bendy shapes.

- Lodgepole Shrubs: Contains 6 low-lying shrub clusters of various sizes that work well as stunted krummholz growth.

More packs are possible in the future depending on my mood and available time, since the possible vareity of shore pines is effectively boundless.

Technical

- All 25 assets across the three packs share a single 1024 x 2048 texture set. The Loading Screen Mod should eliminate the vast majority of functional RAM requirement for these packs.

- Tri counts are a bit higher than my usual offerings for these trees due to their complex shapes and dense branch clusters. Most of the mature trees lie somewhere between 800 and 2300 tris.

- Tree LOD Fix is critical as always.

- I recommend using the Tree Movement Control mod to reduce sway, which can eliminate sway on LODs as well, and doubles for random tree rotation.

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6 Comments
grayone9 May 15, 2023 @ 2:48pm 
To die for! Perfect height for cims and deco! Thx
hockenheim95 Oct 26, 2020 @ 3:02pm 
Hallo clus, könntest du mich über Steam oder Discord kontaktieren? Ich hätte eine Frage an dich!

Gruß, Jan
clus Oct 20, 2020 @ 11:39pm 
Awesome pack ... as always. :) plus I found something that I had to "google"... the term "krummholz". I am no "tree guy" or a botanist and only knew this word as a surname from my enviroment. :P ..and btw i am a German. So thanks, I've learned something new and got a bunch of new trees ! :) What a great morning ...
tonycat333 Oct 20, 2020 @ 12:59pm 
super cool love these small brush we really need more of this in the workshop you did an amazing job :)
LDtailor Oct 19, 2020 @ 3:30pm 
The last but not the least. Completing the pack with some very useful bushes. You work with rocjs was absolutely beatuful. But you are excelling yourself with the trees. Amazing. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Redstone Oct 19, 2020 @ 12:20pm 
These are so good, I'm considering using them on my upcoming East Coast US project. If I was working on a West Coast US project, this would be an insta-sub.