I tried something like that inthe past and making trees manually is a pain in... so ur method of straight painting is what I tried in past too , the issue i found is that I didn't like overlapping of some of them especially if I had to pass over several times and then woul dhave required regardless a second a other manuall passes to fix... I tried also diversify the tre types but with not really good results so I still am in search of a better quicker yet satisfying method.
Jungle patterns are another problem because typically are represented by palm trees in some maps but that is wrong as palm trees are mostly used in open areas and beaches , while Jungle trees should be represented by more specific canopies that its harder to show , also here I am still tring to find a correct simplified idea for a typical Jungle tree that could be recognizeable but not a palm tree... the idea I got is to use an horizontal canopy type but that didn't look very good, so basiccally to put it brutaly simple, pointed triangles for northern trees, bubble round clouds for temperate trees and horizontal jagged ones for jungles, but those last don't look very good ... so still a problem to solve.
Swamps is another one, typically what I see in maps are mostly kind of dead trees and spooky style but that also does't represent reality of swamps, the way i see them is more like Everglades and water-land areas the canopy of those trees also shoudl resemble more Mangroves or the like focusing for example on roots, but there it risks to become overcomplicated in recognizing ... another problem to solve
... if you find some ideas I will be surely be happy to copy them if I get ur permission hehe.
Originally Posted by Naima
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