Is it just me or did anyone else notice the trees? : V - Skyrim

» Wed May 05, 2010 11:37 pm

Almost every tree we've seen so far is exactly the same type as the other ones! NOTE: They are not the same model, but they are exactly the same! All around Skyrim.
I hope they give us the huge trees we had in Oblivion but only in a better quality now, since it's Skyrim. But I'm actually worried that we've seen no other kind of trees, like Oak and such.

EDIT: They look great, by the way.

yeah and there are no birches in skyrim? why?

» Wed May 05, 2010 1:50 pm

yes we need Canadian trees in the southern parts of skyrim.

Why? Elder scrolls lore says that the home of wood elves have massive trees, not anything about Skyrim.

» Wed May 05, 2010 11:40 pm

Why? Elder scrolls lore says that the home of wood elves have massive trees, not anything about Skyrim.

Because large trees are nice and not implausible to exist in the warmer areas of Skyrim?

» Thu May 06, 2010 1:32 am

when i first saw them i thought they dont really look hand carved

» Wed May 05, 2010 4:49 pm

yeah and there are no birches in skyrim? why?

http://uk.xbox360.ign.com/dor/objects/14267318/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim/images/elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-20110211094601315.html?page=mediaFull

Also, I think a lot of people are confusion hemlock with pine... they are both conifers.. but in Lake Mountain, Wolf Heals Mace (far left tree is defiantly a hemlock), and Orc Night (to the left of the Orc) all have hemlock as well.

I'd probably agree with you here. They do match up to the description of Tsuga.

If they have cones on them we could probably narrow it down to a certain species. Depends how detailed Bethesda are on this one. :teehee:

» Wed May 05, 2010 7:55 pm

Because large trees are nice and not implausible to exist in the warmer areas of Skyrim?

Larger trees are obstacles if we cannot do anything with them, such as climb on the branches. Nothing special about a huge piece of [censored] blocking everything if we cannot do anything with it.

» Wed May 05, 2010 3:34 pm

I don't care about the trees i am no a tree hugger

» Wed May 05, 2010 9:29 am

Larger trees are obstacles if we cannot do anything with them, such as climb on the branches. Nothing special about a huge piece of [censored] blocking everything if we cannot do anything with it.

???? Do you consider the central forest in Oblivion an "obstacle"? That sort of thing is what's being asked for. Trees that are more than the height of the trees we've seen so far, which are all pretty small. Not gigantic boabs or something.

» Wed May 05, 2010 3:44 pm

Larger trees are obstacles if we cannot do anything with them, such as climb on the branches. Nothing special about a huge piece of [censored] blocking everything if we cannot do anything with it.

You can practically say that about any object in Oblivion that we can't do anything with. Like walls and such.

We do know we can chop trees. So they do have a good use.

» Wed May 05, 2010 11:24 pm

???? Do you consider the central forest in Oblivion an "obstacle"? That sort of thing is what's being asked for. Trees that are more than the height of the trees we've seen so far, which are all pretty small. Not gigantic boabs or something.

sorry if I'm laughing out load here...

But you were talking about large trees which would be a few feet taller than the rest? :facepalm:

» Wed May 05, 2010 1:19 pm

You can practically say that about any object in Oblivion that we can't do anything with. Like walls and such.

We do know we can chop trees. So they do have a good use.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again.

I'd be mighty surprised if we can fell trees. The wood cutting past-time will be log splitting.

» Thu May 06, 2010 12:26 am

sorry if I'm laughing out load here...

But you were talking about large trees which would be a few feet taller than the rest? :facepalm:

No. :facepalm:

What we have in every screen. http://cdnstatic.gamesas.com/akqacms/files/tes/screenshots/MountainForestPath.jpg

What I'm suggesting. http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/554/oblivion2007012322491049te.jpg

Hardly a few feet taller, and yet hardly an obstacle.

» Wed May 05, 2010 8:48 pm

No. :facepalm:

What we have in every screen. http://cdnstatic.gamesas.com/akqacms/files/tes/screenshots/MountainForestPath.jpg

What I'm suggesting. http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/554/oblivion2007012322491049te.jpg

Hardly a few feet taller, and yet hardly an obstacle.

On low-land places such big trees could exist, but imo, those trees look like they belong to Skyrim (the upper one) and that is what they are aiming for, making it believeable.

» Thu May 06, 2010 12:48 am

No. :facepalm:

What we have in every screen. http://cdnstatic.gamesas.com/akqacms/files/tes/screenshots/MountainForestPath.jpg

What I'm suggesting. http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/554/oblivion2007012322491049te.jpg

Hardly a few feet taller, and yet hardly an obstacle.

Yeah, at least in certain parts of the world, there should be trees like that.

» Wed May 05, 2010 5:11 pm

I'm just worried about tree density. Doesn't look like there will be any dense forests.
'Oh you wouldn't have that in this environment etc.' It is a fantasy game, let me have a thick forest.

» Wed May 05, 2010 8:21 pm

On low-land places such big trees could exist, but imo, those trees look like they belong to Skyrim (the upper one) and that is what they are aiming for, making it believeable.

As hasbeen mentioned, Canada, which had a similar environment to Skyrim, has many large trees.

» Wed May 05, 2010 3:00 pm

something like these would be great

http://www.wallpapers247.com/images/wallpapers/Palms-Jungle-913346.jpeg
http://www.naffziger.net/images/peru/IMG_5805.jpg
http://good-wallpapers.com/pictures/4464/1440_snowy_forest_wallpaper.jpg

» Wed May 05, 2010 11:35 pm

something like these would be great

http://www.wallpapers247.com/images/wallpapers/Palms-Jungle-913346.jpeg
http://www.naffziger.net/images/peru/IMG_5805.jpg
http://good-wallpapers.com/pictures/4464/1440_snowy_forest_wallpaper.jpg

2nd one looks a bit rainforesty for Skyrim. First doesn't work. Third is pretty nice though.

» Thu May 06, 2010 2:46 am

As hasbeen mentioned, Canada, which had a similar environment to Skyrim, has many large trees.

:facepalm: Canada has many unique things in it that enables the trees to get so big. Skyrim however is a really rugged place, which by definiton doesn't have the same environment at all.

» Wed May 05, 2010 1:39 pm

:facepalm: Canada has many unique things in it that enables the trees to get so big. Skyrim however is a really rugged place, which by definiton doesn't have the same environment at all.

Could you kindly explain firstly about what it is that allows Canada to have such large trees and also how you know it is completely impossible for Skyrim also to have large trees, even though it is set in a fantasy universe where things don't always work precisely the same as in ours, and how you know the exact nature of every part of Skyrim and that it definitely does not share any of these conditions with Canada?

» Wed May 05, 2010 2:58 pm

Could you kindly explain firstly about what it is that allows Canada to have such large trees and also how you know it is completely impossible for Skyrim also to have large trees, even though it is set in a fantasy universe where things don't always work precisely the same as in ours, and how you know the exact nature of every part of Skyrim and that it definitely does not share any of these conditions with Canada?

Oh easy, but I don't feel like doing it for you. Do a bit of research on your own about it. The key world however is rugged.

If you think it's a total coincidence that canada has so much larger trees than we have in scandinavia, then I understand how you cannot see the difference between canada and rugged.

» Wed May 05, 2010 7:45 pm

Oh easy, but I don't feel like doing it for you. Do a bit of research on your own about it. The key world however is rugged.

If you think it's a total coincidence that canada has so much larger trees than we have in scandinavia, then I understand how you cannot see the difference between canada and rugged.

Then you are not presenting an argument. You don't know what all of Skyrim looks like anyway, or have an intricate knowledge of how, where and when what plants may grow on Nirn.

» Thu May 06, 2010 1:25 am

Then you are not presenting an argument. You don't know what all of Skyrim looks like anyway, or have an intricate knowledge of how, where and when what plants may grow on Nirn.

I have, however, been following what Todd says about Skyrim. So far, everything points towards a scandinavian environment instead of a canadian envorinment. Canada is more like the home of wood elves now that i think about it.

Besides, the warm and cold areas in Skyrim are not from being north or south, but how far up they are. That is why it would be plausible for the screenshot big trees you showed to exist in low-land places. Ofcourse it is nirn, do put pink flying elephants there, how do we know they are not there.

» Wed May 05, 2010 9:02 pm

Edit: nevermind

» Wed May 05, 2010 8:38 pm

I have, however, been following what Todd says about Skyrim. So far, everything points towards a scandinavian environment instead of a canadian envorinment. Canada is more like the home of wood elves now that i think about it.

Besides, the warm and cold areas in Skyrim are not from being north or south, but how far up they are. That is why it would be plausible for the screenshot big trees you showed to exist in low-land places. Ofcourse it is nirn, do put pink flying elephants there, how do we know they are not there.

Valenwood is more of a jungle than a Canadian environment, at least that's how it's always sounded to me, especially since Cyrodiil is already temperate.

"That is why it would be plausible for the screenshot big trees you showed to exist in low-land places" Yeah, so why have you been arguing against it? I never said I wanted them to be put up in the mountains.