Forest Pack - Multiple regions on same surface with different plants?

[Larissa Holderness]

Trying to create a 'garden' with one/two types of plants in designated areas surrounded by another type of plant. How can I go about doing this using only one Forest creation? See attached images.

 

Is this even possible?

3DSM 2015 & Forest Pack 4.3.7

 

Thank you!

Larissa

Edited February 2, 2016 by digitalputty
forgot software used

[jensandersen]

Hi Larissa

 

I'm not sure if you can do this with just one forest object. Why this limitation?

 

Cover the whole area with one forest object (lets say grass).

 

Add splines where you want the other type of plant to be.

 

In the "Area" tab of the forest object, set these splines to "exclude" in the first forest object (grass):

 

Now create a new forest object with the other plant (say flower01) and click the wanted spline area.

 

Repeat last step till wanted effect.

 

If you need this on some sort of terrain, you can do it mostly the same way.

 

Spline excludes work fine from the top down, no need to conform it to the terrain.

 

Now just copy the main forest object (grass) and in this forest object include the flower area instead of excluding it and turn off the main distribution area like this:

 

Result:

 

If I have totally misunderstood the question, you should head to the iToo software support forum, they are great!

 

Best of luck with the project.

[Corey Beaulieu]

Is this even possible?

 

Yes.

 

http://docs.itoosoft.com/display/FORESTPACK/Distribution+Map+-+Diversity

[Larissa Holderness]

Thank you both!

[jensandersen]

Yes.

 

http://docs.itoosoft.com/display/FORESTPACK/Distribution+Map+-+Diversity

 

Neat, thanks Corey.