Looking for advice for planting trees

Hi Folks,

do somebody of you have some good advice for setting up some trees on my terrain?

I tried to do it with “The Forester”-Plugin. But I can’t see trees on my terrain!

[java]
Apr 10, 2014 5:55:42 PM forester.Forester getInstance
Information: Forester was instantiated.
Apr 10, 2014 5:55:42 PM paging.GeometryPagingEngine initGrid
Information: Very small page size (pageSize: 15,785); setting to minimum value: 32f.
Apr 10, 2014 5:55:42 PM paging.GeometryPagingEngine initGrid
Information: Grid created (number of tiles: 9).
Apr 10, 2014 5:55:42 PM forester.trees.TreeLoader createTile
Information: TreeTile created at: (-1,-1)
Apr 10, 2014 5:55:42 PM forester.trees.TreeLoader createTile
Information: TreeTile created at: (0,-1)
Apr 10, 2014 5:55:42 PM forester.trees.TreeLoader createTile
Information: TreeTile created at: (1,-1)
Apr 10, 2014 5:55:42 PM forester.trees.TreeLoader createTile
Information: TreeTile created at: (-1,0)
Apr 10, 2014 5:55:42 PM forester.trees.TreeLoader createTile
Information: TreeTile created at: (0,0)
Apr 10, 2014 5:55:42 PM forester.trees.TreeLoader createTile
Information: TreeTile created at: (1,0)
Apr 10, 2014 5:55:42 PM forester.trees.TreeLoader createTile
Information: TreeTile created at: (-1,1)
Apr 10, 2014 5:55:42 PM forester.trees.TreeLoader createTile
Information: TreeTile created at: (0,1)
Apr 10, 2014 5:55:42 PM forester.trees.TreeLoader createTile
Information: TreeTile created at: (1,1)
[/java]

Greets

not sure if it helps in your case:
http://hub.jmonkeyengine.org/forum/topic/how-do-i-use-forester/

Unfortunately I don’t use it myself.

Hey netsky08,

thx for your answer!

I know this post. From this one i got the forester code in my project.

Are there any alternatives out there?
I spend many hours on google but it seems there is nothing else.
Doing a vegetation-system on my own is over my base of knowledge atm! ;/

Doing this is very game-specific, and I seriously doubt any out-of-the-box system will suffice. I found this document to be of particular interest: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/1648/random_scattering_creating_.php?print=1

Hey jayfella,

thank you very much! This doc sound really interesting! Weekend is near! Time for some reading! =D