Terrain Workshop: Trees 1 Revisit

Over two years ago I started working on making terrestrial-style trees for MFZ Cover/terrain. I'm looping back to that initial post as I had an idea last Friday on how to improve the design I posted the first time around.

As I mentioned in that first post, the problem with the basic design

is that it's seven pieces total.  Which is not evenly divisible by

six, which is the magic number when it comes to building Cover.

While this design fixes that problem, it also requires use of a Reddish-Brown Travis Brick

in the base.  It looks nice but I was never quite happy with the look and parts usage.

This, on the other hand, brings the Round Plates w/3 Leaves off the base and on to the

Small Palm Leaves.  Borrowing from the third design in that first post, it also adds a 1x1

Round Plate under the Inkwell.  This brings the total parts count to twelve which is 2

Hits.  Yes, the small leaves are a different type than the larger ones but I'm okay with that.

If you don't like the Round Plates w/3 Leaves then you could substitute four 1x1 Round Plates w/Flower Edge (5 Petals) instead.  This gives you the chance to add a splash of

color to your trees.  You have to be a bit careful though as if you push the Small Palm

Leaves on too far to the bars the Flower Plates will pop off.  Going back to the last

iteration for a second, you could use some of the non-Green Round Plates w/3 Leaves

which would help to explain away the difference between the small and large leaves.

If you don't like that idea, you could substitute four Apollo Studs

inside the Small Palm Leaves.  This variant gives the leaves

a little clearance away from the trunk of the tree as well.

Here's the usual size comparison.  I hope this helps people with

future tree designs for MFZ: Rapid Attack.  Of course this has given

me a few ideas for tweaking some of my other old tree builds.

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