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[WxTech]

All done? Although I'm wondering about the tufts of grass/shrubbery on the ground... I've given the trunks the same texture as for the isolated palms.

[stanislao]

       Very well, I love your palm trees, they have given an irreplaceable realistic twist to both desert and Pacific area sceneries! The block of squared palms actually, while very interesting, proved excellent usefulness in close-up screenshots, but sadly in medium and wide range ones
the density was not very realistic and above all the square block difficult to manage or to merge with the surrounding trees. It's a bit like Carsmaster's weed, great if overlaid in multiple layers but unlikely if used isolated. I believe that as always you have found the right solution!

[Kopfdorfer]

Hi WX,

Great work as always.
One thought.
It might be useful to have a shape alternate to a 40x40m square.
To me it would be quite utile to have a 40x10m swath to use as an edge to
other ( oleg tree ) forest textures , where 40x40 is too deep.

Regardless , this is another great add by you.

Thanks for all the creative ideas.

Kopfdorfer

[WxTech]

I'm wondering if the original 'jungle-like' texture still has any appeal. I kind of think it's still useful as representing a wild coconut grove, whereas this new variant is certainly better for deliberately planted, tidier plantations.

The thinner, rectangular block has merit. I'll do one up. For both the square and rectangular blocks.

[genXgamer]

At the time the jungle like texture was the most suitable I could find on the internet, I absolutely believe it is needed for Pacific islands that are heavily populated with coconut palms.
Airstrips in New Guinea and Solomon Islands that were cut from Lever Brothers palm plantations require a more open appearance.

I still have other palm plantation images and 6 trees I have cut from game and used channels in Photoshop to clean up.

A smaller 20 x 20 would be great, also increasing the draw distance a touch.

[stanislao]

   Yes. The irregular arrangement and the squares inserted with 45 ° rotation give a more natural look from above ... even if it is very difficult to eliminate the "carpet" effect and prevent the formation of stripes of color that give an image, like striped upholstery ... I would try thinning out the number of palms in the blocks to see if the cubic mass effect changes, if you can then insert palms with different heights, this would visibly reduce the carpet effect.
Sorry Wxtech, I am not able to teach you anything, I just want to participate in something that involves me a lot.   

[WxTech]

UPDATE, Mar 26, 2022: Made the original object look more like a managed plantation, and added a new block having the wild look of the original object (but with the undergrowth thinned out just a bit.)

[genXgamer]

Love the new plantation block!

Unfortunately in the case of Gurney airstrip the original is needed the cover up all the ugly trees on the side of the strip.
Unless I modify the map which is a strong possibility, as there's a number of things needed to be done.

[genXgamer]

Hi Glenn

I know you probably don't ever want to re-visit this mod, but I'll throw my request out there anyway.
Can we please have a lighter version of the more open palm plantation block done in the lighter version of the palm tree?
Disregard the Egyptian palms in screenshot.