Ok. I've had a rethink and gone for much larger scale.

This isn't finished. It's just set up ready for details and possibly snowy rooftops.

There are.

I made them to cover large areas in dense forest. They only work well if you carefully spot single tree symbols all around the edges.

Part of the forest in the example map is done that way.

There are also drawing tools that do symbols in area. I think they were incorporated into the symbol catalogs

Oh wow guys!

Has anyone else checked out the new ambient lighting setup? You can set the ambient light (in this case dark blue) when you pick the colour of the shadows in the finalize effect.

The answer to that one is practice.

I assume you are hand placing the trees, rather than using any of the Symbol fills or Symbols in Area command.

Hand placed trees always look more natural, as long as you don't think about it too much and just do it. The more you think about it and the more care you take the more it looks like a forestry plantation with everything in regimental rows.

Having said that, try overlapping the trees to hide the trunks in a thick forest, and try not to leave spaces that are too regular in other places. Trees often grow in groups or small copses, so try grouping 3 or 5 together in little patches, but in a semi-haphazard way. Do the dense forest first, and then the woodlands around them, so that there is a gradual gradation from thick forest to savannah.

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