Goodbye Autumn! Murano‘s Birch Trees NH View Edit & Seasonal Recolours
I’ve always liked these seasonal birch trees by Murano but the fact they looked horrid in hood view, put me off from using them altogether. So, after some research and a lot of trial and error in SimPe...
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...ta-dah! And since I enjoy Wendigo’s @driftsatellite recolours of these trees, I went ahead and adapted them to the edited package.
Spring/Summer - all shapes and Wendigo’s recolours
The caveat is that removing the LOD90 object, which was required to fix the NH view, will cause flashing blue textures on the seasonal states of any other existing recolour. Recolouring these the usual way, will also result in the same problem. Instead, they require an edited clone that works as a recolour. Am currently preparing a small tutorial on how to edit objects with a similar problem and then recolour them. The beauty of this, however? It allows you to customise the seasonal states of each recolour. And I made it so that each individual recolour by Wendigo will now display a different hue during autumn. Like so:
Autumn - with Wendigo’s recolours and one of mine
To colour the different autumn states, I re-used Wendigo’s recolours successively and also made a bright red one, to complete the cycle.
Also, I replaced Murano’s blotchy autumn state with Wendigo’s brighter, smoother recolour. Trees will drop leaves normally in autumn, which can be raked.
Winter states remain the originals by Murano.
And of course, what this fix intended in the first place; That these will look good, not only in lots but from hood view as well!
Hood View - Spring/Summer
Hood View - Autumn
Hood View - Winter
INFO:
* My files will overwrite the originals by Murano (GUID is the same).
* For instances of these trees already in your game, you’ll need to save the lot before the changes appear in NH view.
* Seasonal plants (generally) seem to work with non-Seasons installations of the game, but they only display the summer state.
I have been testing these for a couple of weeks but if anything is awry, please don’t hesitate to tell me. Go forth and plant the forest of your dreams! :D
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Next up: Murano’s Bamboo, receiving a similar treatment! Almost done, so stay tuned! :)
Murano’s Bamboo now done! CREDITS
Criquette
Lowedeus
Murano
Plasticbox
Voeille
Wendigo
