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Maybe we could use something like an ash fern.Myzel wrote:Without anything else to make the place look interesting it would still be just ashlands with water. Not the way to do it imo. A player wouldn't even recognize it as something new.blackbird wrote:The only livings organisms could be some plants. Perhaps we could use some of the ashlands plants, like trama shrubs, firefern, scathecraw, ash grass.
Since you seemed to disagree with my idea of the white ash fungus earlier, I figured this remark was related to that. (i.e. that you meant to say those plants should be the only living organisms and not the fungus.)blackbird wrote:The only livings organisms could be some plants. Perhaps we could use some of the ashlands plants, like trama shrubs, firefern, scathecraw, ash grass.
... I meant that if there is nothing besides dead trees and some standard ashland plants, this area will not in fact be unique at all.Without anything else to make the place look interesting it would still be just ashlands with water. Not the way to do it imo. A player wouldn't even recognize it as something new.
If you mean those brown toadstools growing off the side of the trees, I think those are already in the game. Colorful shelf shrooms seem like a good idea.Cathartis wrote: I really liked the mushrooms growing off the sides of other mushrooms or trees, it would add a lot of variety to the appearance of the area as a static that can simply be "plugged in" to the sides of other large statics. The funnel caps on the ground and larger, more colourful shelf mushrooms are also good ideas.
I agree. The models for the forest will probably be even more work than those for the swamp.Also can I suggest that the mushroom forest be grouped into several smaller claims rather than one big one?
After Deshaan has seen enough concepts (which is going a bit slow atm... maybe I should do some more myself) I will set up an FCG for this. I'd say two new tree types and a couple of smaller plants. Central to these plants should be (imo) that they fit with the normal BM trees but are actually interesting. They should resemble a real-world conifer tree at first sight, but have some alien characteristic in it's shape or look that make it at home in morrowind.As we're getting closer to the old Map 5 area, I have at least one request for an FCG for things we can model: flora. Having half a dozen or so new trees and some new bushes/whatnot in the BM style would be incredibly useful. Specifically, some very tall firs (twice as tall as the current BM firs), with alternates of foliage starting at both the base of the tree (like the current BM ones) and starting halfway up--or slightly higher-the height of the tree's trunk.
Let me know if I wasn't specific enough, and what your thoughts are.
Thanks,
Haplo
