A thing I find interesting is how rapidly I lose my suspension of disbelief when I watch media and the *forest isn't right* by my standards. My brain insists there's only one correct mix of trees for forests, naturally the one where I'm from, and everything else isn't real.
If I see a horror movie set in like the South or the Pacific Northwest my brain goes nope, that's not real, no problem for me.
It needs to be like this:
@PatrickoftheG tangent to your point
i cant stand forests in games. anyone who's spent five minutes outside can see the way trees and plants fill gaps on the projected surface that can receive light.
trees only make a perfect round shape with their branches/canopy in open isolation
otherwise they tend to grow very lopsided
artists painting in two round trees next to each other is really uncanny valley
Yeah, me too. I saw a TV show set in DC (where I live now) and the forest was completely wrong. It works the other way, too. In Knives Out they had to have been on location because the forest looked exactly like Massachusetts (where I grew up) forest. I was pleased.
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