Regarding the landscape, whilst the trees in this scrapped development video blend nicely with the scenary, mostly all of the trees look like traditional Christmas-trees in shape. These trees aren't widely seen, as the video dicates, across the English landscape.
One of my main gripes of the trees in CloD is the trunks. If you drive across the SE of England, mostly all of the trees you will see in the countryside, when grouped, have their trunks obscured by foliage. When flying, they just look like a mass of foliage which blends into the terrain. CloD's trees look like lollipops.
The same is true for hedges; I'd best my middle testicle that if you drive down a country lane, a hedge will seemlessly grow in size, creeping into neighbouring trees; again creating a huge mass of foliage. This is all missing from CloD.
Look at RoF. I know the comparisons have been done to death, but the trees there (from the air) look very similar to what I have described.
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07-09-2011, 10:58 AM
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