Spread and styles

A forest painted by dropping one tree every few blocks reads as a planted avenue. Real woods have a few habits, and the brush copies them. Try it below: this is one stroke from above, worked out with the rules the mod uses.

The habits it copies #

• Crowns, not trunks, set the spacing. A tree needs room for its crown and its neighbor's, times a factor set by the density. A big oak keeps its neighbors further off than a young birch does. Trunks never stand closer than two blocks.
• Groves and clearings. A slow noise field decides how likely a spot is to get a tree at all, so the brush leaves glades instead of an even carpet.
• Stands. Neighboring trees are of a similar age, because they started at the same time.
• Patches of species. Species come in patches rather than salt and pepper. Mixing blends that toward fully random.
• A frayed edge. Every spot in the inner two thirds of the brush can get a tree; toward the rim that drops to a third, so strokes blend into each other.

Styles #

A style is a pair of density and clearings. Pick one, or move the sliders and it becomes your own.

The settings #

Brush size default 10 blocks

How far the forest brush reaches from the crosshair, in blocks. The scroll wheel changes it while painting.

Density default closed 50%

How close trees stand. Scattered (under 20%): a tree here and there. Open: light between the crowns. Closed (from 35%): crowns touch, like a forest roof. Thicket (from 70%): grown into each other.

Clearings default 30%

0: trees everywhere the brush goes. 100: clumps of trees with open ground between them.

Species mixing default 25%

With more than one species. 0: each species in patches of its own. 100: all mixed through each other.

Paints default ghosts first

Ghosts first: see the wood as ghosts, then Enter plants it all. Trees at once: every tree goes in as you paint.