Hi, sorry for not getting back here earlier and without any pretty pictures no less. It's just lately I've been enjoying simcity the way it was intended and finally have something going that I would dare call a city. The population already exceeds 6000 sims, mind you!
Ah well, guess slow development is the price to pay for wanting to lot everything myself.
Anyhow, I started putting brushes together but quickly realised not only must each individually be tuned, the entire treecontroller itself must have more or less the same consistency when it comes to smoothness, flora spread and the like. And it turns out that unlike lotting or minor modding, putting it together isn't something I can do for a short period of time. It involves a lot of going back and forth between the reader & the game which is rather time consuming in and of itself. Moreover I keep going round in circles, seemingly starting over again each time, despite writing stuff down.

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To put it in other words, the sheer scale and complexity of the ordeal is something I'm not comfortable with just yet.
That said, it has kept me thinking and as it stands now, I'll probably settle for three versions;
Mountain; for mountainous terrain, obviously. No shoreline, dominated by firs and will be the winter controller proper i.e. containing the VIP snowy winter models.
Coast; PEG weeds for the shoreline, pretty dense decideous forests which give way to firs and meadows at the highest altitudes only.
River; Girafe cattails & VIP poplars for shoreline, meadows at lowest altitudes, intermingled with decideous forest and small shrubs. Firs start appearing halfway.
Sounds pretty neat, right?! At least I think it does. Lets wait and see how it turns out.
impressive, really really wonderful....

Thanks, glad you like it.
. . how can I build my cities without spend a ton of time trying to implement all these great REALISTIC creations.
Hehe, I wondered the same and somehow ended up doing it myself
JENXPARIS Seine River trees as Seasonal Flora has both seasonal and non-seasonal varieties. The non-seasonal exemplars share the same ID so that you only have to plant once and then switch exemplars to get different seasons. Perhaps something similar could work for snow/no-snow.
That's an usefull idea, thanks!
I would not mind snow in the decidious areas if it only appears in winter. Green trees on snowy ground would look very strange, though.
The latter would look rather strange indeed but what about bare trunks on a snowy ground, would that be all right?
I think the meadows may fit very well in the higher areas, just before the rocks where trees generally do not grow due to the altitude. Just a suggestion.
Suggestion taken into account.
