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hello i saw your alpha on youetude im looking forward to trying the preorder and trying to create some amazing shit i was a level designer for first person shooter games for 13 years mainly couter-strike and others if you have any information on programming tips, texture packs, layouts, or tutorials i would love to hear from you. im from the forrest so im looking to make an alaska forest map for overgrowth any help is greatly apreciated. love the rabbits by the way

Are you from Alaska though? because if you're not it would be quite difficult to make a map that's like our forests.

Count Roland wrote:Are you from Alaska though? because if you're not it would be quite difficult to make a map that's like our forests.

just cover the ground in snow and make all the trees fir/coniferous?

Markuss wrote:

Count Roland wrote:Are you from Alaska though? because if you're not it would be quite difficult to make a map that's like our forests.

just cover the ground in snow and make all the trees fir/coniferous?

Close enough. At least for one kind, anyway.

There's also a jillion miles of birch and mixed birch/spruce, and a lot of alder, willow and mountain ash, which tend to be more like really tall brush than trees, really. Birches + snow + long northern twilight is a classic (or even cliche) romantic mystical environment, according to my Russian friend. Birches & snow

In the warmer south end you get awesome, giant, rough-barked cottonwoods that make beautiful, trippy cotton "snow" in the middle of summer. It looks like a dream floating in the sunlight against all that dense green. That would be so great in a forest map. Couldn't find a good pic of the "snow", but the trees are beautiful in any season.

There's plenty of pics: Montana, Idaho, Canada, Sweden, Norway, Russia, Siberia... they'll all do.
Mountain valleys carved by glaciers are broad U shaped, not V shaped like those carved by rivers.

Ok, I gotta get out of California more...

man that "cotton snow" is irritating as fuck, you run over it with your lawn mower and it gets everywhere. I can take some pictures here sometime soon fortunately that cottonwood crap isn't out yet but I can still take pictures of the trees and wait for it to come out.

lolz. Yeah, I can see where the beauty part starts to wear thin if you have to deal with it in your yard. Also, there's a bunch of stuff on the webs about how some people are super allergic to it. Yuck.

You're in Anchorage, right? If you are, I strongly endorse going south on the Seward Highway to McHugh Creek Park and walk the hiking trail toward Rainbow.

Traditional form for these walks includes: play hooky from work or school on a sunny weekday; bring some sandwiches; bring your camera; bring a joint. Woo! Spring in Alaska!! I've seen whales in the inlet, golden eagles, mountain goats, a cuute muskrat, and about a thousand singin' birds all in one day. The wildflowers look like someone on acid decorated the place.

yep, Anchorage born and raised, never been to McHugh Creek Park, but The Seward Highway's probably my favorite drive of all time. You should try out the Swan Lake canoe trail out past Sterling, and Crow Pass is also good.

The other cool but also annoying thing about Alaska is the elderberries, They're irritating as hell to have in your yard because they'll grow up like five feet in three months and they get thick and annoying to try to get rid of, but they're awesome because when they make forests they grow so thick that there are like tunnels in the woods, makes for some rather awesome exploring.