Planting Trees & Bushes

Pick a tree or bush, then click the ground to plant it. Every one grows a little differently.

Click Trees in the bottom toolbar.
Pick a tree.
Click the ground to plant it.

Plant a tree

Picking Oak in the Trees panel, moving the preview tree across the ground and clicking three times to plant three oaks — A preview tree follows your cursor. Click to plant it.

The tree under your cursor is a preview of the one you'll get.
Click again to plant another. Each one grows differently.
Trees sit on hills and slopes wherever you plant them.

Bushes

Switching to the Bushes tab, picking Lavender and planting a row of lavender along the ground — Bushes have their own tab.

Open the Bushes tab for shrubs, flowers and climbers.
Hop and Grape Vine grow up a trellis.

Age and scale

Switching Age between Young, Mature and Old and dragging the Scale slider while the preview tree changes shape and size — Age changes the shape. Scale changes the size.

Age: young trees are small and thin, old ones tall and spreading.
Scale makes the next one bigger or smaller.

Choose a shape

Pressing New shape several times so the preview tree changes, then clicking to plant the one that fits — New shape rolls a different tree until you like one.

Press New shape to try another version of the same tree.
Click to plant the one you like.

Seasons

Season turns every tree and bush in the scene to spring, summer, fall or winter, and is saved with the scene.
Each plant changes the way its species does. Maples turn red and birches gold in the fall, oaks hold on to a few brown leaves through the winter, and pines, spruces and other evergreens keep their needles all year.
Summer shows each plant as it is drawn in the panel.

Undo and remove

Pressing Undo to take back the last tree, then using Edit to click another tree and delete it — Undo takes back the last one. Edit removes any tree.

Undo or Ctrl+Z takes back the last tree or bush.
To remove any other, click Edit, click the tree, then delete it.

On a phone

On a phone, picking a tree so the panel tucks itself away, then tapping the ground to plant several — Pick a tree, then tap the ground to plant it.

Pick a tree and the panel tucks itself away, leaving the ground free.
Tap the ground to plant. Tap the bar to open the panel again.

Controls

Click the ground	Plant a tree or bush
Ctrl+Z	Take back the last one
Drag the sky	Turn the camera
Right drag	Move the camera
Scroll	Zoom in and out

Tips

Sculpt the ground first. Trees stay where they land.
Mix ages and species so a wood looks natural.
Planting a row or an avenue? Turn on Grid Snapping to put each one in the middle of a grid square.
Lots of trees can slow a scene down. Plant what the camera sees rather than the whole board.

Trees are grown with the EZ-Tree library by Dan Greenheck.

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