Covering the north in Snowy Spruce

[CashBanks]

Here we figure out how to comprehensively replace all spruce leaf blocks in snowy areas with the @Emotione11's new Snowy Spruce Leaf block.

Maybe we divide the North up into intro strips and allocate each to a volunteer to handle the swap, doing all the trees in their zone from east to west.

 

[AerioOndos]

why not go west to east, as there are more finished projects on the western shore?
Knott, Norrey, Lorn, Shadowtower+westwatch vs Karhold (which has unfinished areas) and the Dreadfort (Lets count it for arguments sake)

 

[JohanKR850]

Does it matter? It has to be done anyways.

 

[CashBanks]

East West rolls off the tongue better. I don’t have a preference, just that everyone efficiently finishes the strip of latitude they’ve volunteered to take.

 

[AerioOndos]

I'll take 2300 to 2100 to start off with

 

[otty]

-1700 to -1500 always happy to do more tho!

 

[JohanKR850]

Ill take 1500 to 1300 with the southern tips of Bear island too of course.

 

[Emoticone11]

Whoever’s doing the southernmost latitudes in the transition area will need to be most careful.

When replacing, you should make sure to select only the spruce IDs: 18:1,18:5,18:9,18:13. I’m not sure what people use the other leaf blocks for. If there’s oak/jungle/birch leaves under snow blocks in some projects you can replace those separately.

One more thing: we should come up with an agreement about whether to keep or remove the snow layers & snow slabs on top of spruce leaves. IMO they look better removed. One tricky thing, however, is that some trees also have snow blocks on top of them with snow layers on top of those. So I guess you could probably remove all snow layers, slabs, and blocks on top of snowy spruce leaves, and then remove all snow layers above air.

 

[AerioOndos]

I’m up for having them without snow.
What I’ve also tried out in Norrey is replacing only the block under air with snowy spruce and it looks pretty good. Norreyvillage, the norspruces on the northern side of the bridge.

It makes the snowfall feel lighter and that might help in the southern areas

 

[CashBanks]

-2100 through -1900 should now be all swapped - left the snow layers on the leaves for now. I'll remove those as well if there's a consensus that it's a worthwhile improvement.

 

[Emoticone11]

How many selections did it take to do @CashBanks ?

 

[CashBanks]

Quite a few, most of the trees were on the eastern side of the mountains, so I creeped a big wide selection down and then used a brush to fill in the gaps.

 

[JohanKR850]

I swept over the latitude of -1500 to -1300. There might be some goofs, even though i checked. I couldn't go super systematically at the areas with leaf mixes, but it should be good.

 

[AerioOndos]

So what’s left? 19-1700 and 1300 to 7000?