CoD vs some other sims that model Kent?

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Originally Posted by David Hayward

It does nothing of the sort. The CoD screenshot is virtually identical to the photo. The CoD "isolated trees" are blind WoP fanboyism. The same "isolated trees" exist in the WoP shot.

No, it is not blind fanboyism.

I do not own WoP, I never had the time to buy it, and like you I find the green haze entirely overdone. The washed out colours too could possibly pass of as a bleak Central European winter, but never as a Britsih summer.

However, just when it comes to the trees and their placement, they do feel more natural, and is a much closer match for teh photoes. Now remember, back in the 1940ies, there were even more hedgerows than now.

What is lacking from CoD 8and which WoP has solved quite smartly by their dark lines, is bushes. There are a lot of isolated trees in CoD. As was noted, it gives the terrain a more Mediterranian look. The typical British landscape has a lot more bushes than trees really. If you want to see a decent rendering of the mid-ceentury British countryside, I'd suggest "Thomas the Tank Engine" (the original series).

With the size of the CoD map, implementing bushed the way they have with trees would likely not be practical. I'm not a programmer, but I think some large bush-objevts to fill out the forests and some long ones for the hedges would do.