This is my second big build, and I thought I would share to get some ideas for improvements.
The trunk has floors with stairs.
the way in is there is a lil pool of water next to the tree, that you have go under water to a tunnel that lets you walk up stairs in one of the roots.
All of the limbs are stairways to the outermost part of the canopy.
Everything in the canopy is separate rooms.
Print Screen messed up somehow so the right edge is cut off, but you get the picture!
It looks awesome. It can get better--not that it's not good, but everything gets better, I'm just not the right person for it. It reminds me of something I built very similar to that one in a server. You can see it from spawn and everyone saw it.
...the the server updated and it got erased.
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My review...
I feel the roots at the base are a bit odd. Trees don't sit up like a table, the whole thing should be sitting on the ground. Roots normally vine outwards just a LITTLE bit before they go underground. The bottom honestly feels too wierd, I don't like it.
The middle part of the tree feels barren, if you add maybe 3 or so small branches and maybe 1 or 2 larger ones, it wouldn't feel that way. Another way to make it not feel barren is massive flowers or massive vines specked all over the whole tree. You'd probably want to make those massive flowes or vines out of wool.
You mentioned you were going to do interior decorating and that's fine, I'll critisize that later.
Oh, another thing I'd like to mention is the top. From above, I noticed the leaves don't connect. I think it should have leaves connecting all of the big bushels on top of the tree. I'd also suggest vines made of leaf blocks under those connected bushels to make it looks nicer when you're inside or below.
3/5 so far. I'm not impressed, seen better. Others are easily impressed only because it's large and/or they don't have the time or patience to build that kind of thing.
Hope to see you progress in this build.
Edit: I just realized the trunk, I hate it. There's this skinny trunk and then this massive amount of branches and bushels on top. It needs to be A LOT thicker.
I understand you're merely sharing, but the above would make it a lot better.
i see where your coming from, your tone sounds sort of mean.
while the tree can be improved by the above statements, it is a great build.
i love it, if you made it something one could survive in it would be even better.
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That is simply lovely! I did have one suggestion, though it's kinda too late to implement without doing a whole lot of extra work - maybe some different kinds of wood woulda looked better? Inside it's like a maze cause everything's got the same color and texture - I understand that it's one tree and therefore one kind of wood, but some portions might be better off in different colors for the sake of navigability. It's just my opinion, though. *shrugs* Apart from that, it's a stunning piece of work. Wish I had the perseverance to do something that like that~ =^_^;=
My tone was serious and critical, not mean. When I first saw it, I saw big, a lot of work, and some creativity, but not much else. I also noticed that almost every post above mine was way too much praise for the build imo. I was going to be critical anyway, but that was the deciding point and I wouldn't change my mind. It's probably also partly because I REALLY have seen better.
I'm not saying it's a bad build, just could be improved.
There seems to be some confusion on my concept, or why I chose the characteristics that I did. I tried to use a few pictures I found to piece together a tree that allows it to be useful and interactive and not just "pretty".
I mainly used these three pictures to figure out what parts would work together to achieve my main goal, give the tree as much useable area as possible while not looking like a box.
1.The first picture, the root/trunk area.
I overlayed this image over a grid pattern to figure out the scale that I could create the tree in a world and have the canopy just above the clouds. The lean angle of this tree and everything was done with this image and a grid pattern.
2.The canopy.
I used the angles from the image because I felt it would be best for creating the stairwells in the limbs and having the canopy have as much useful area as possible. I only used the angles of this because if I did it exactly it would not provide much useful protected area.
3.Proportion and size.
I used this image because I liked the way this fits in with the other trees in the picture. Also canopy width and height proportions where put on a grid and figured on top of the original trunk from this picture as well.
i love it, if you made it something one could survive in it would be even better.
This is what the inside will be like when finished. It will be like an elven village entirely inside the tree where multiple NPCs could be put.
I did not make the tree too easy navigable because during the movie it was easy to lose where you were in the canopy, and I wanted whoever used the tree to have the same sensation.
Thank you for your ideas yukaboy! I should have taken more time to give a better impression on my inspiration/goal in my first post, but posts like yours help me to be creative and approach this from an out of the box perspective. Things come out better when more people get involved, and people like yourself are not scared to make an informative post about their perspective even if it can come across as abrasive. When I stare at something for so long I feel it gets boring, but as an automobile custom airbrush artist I know it is easy to over do it because of that, so I hold back.
It looks awesome! Remember to have the spiral staircase-type thing inside the trunk, and the open space at the bottom of the tree.
I thought about that, but I was not sure if it would be to much or not. I would think, if I did it, I would have to do it like the one pictured in pic #5.
Doing this would put a 4x4 stairwell right through the middle of every floorplan on every floor. It would take up a lot of room and would make designing the floors harder.
Do you think it would offset the problems it causes?
I like it a lot. I would agree with AkiHikari though as far as differentiating some of the all-wooden interiors. Maybe just add some features to break it up a bit. Apart from that you've done a great job.
The trunk has floors with stairs.
the way in is there is a lil pool of water next to the tree, that you have go under water to a tunnel that lets you walk up stairs in one of the roots.
All of the limbs are stairways to the outermost part of the canopy.
Everything in the canopy is separate rooms.
Print Screen messed up somehow so the right edge is cut off, but you get the picture!
On with the pictures,
Me and a friend built it, I designed and did 60% of the work.
...the the server updated and it got erased.
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Who is that, and what did they do? Can you post a link maybe?
I drafted this myself on graph paper.
The hard part is gonna be designing all of the inside.
My review...
I feel the roots at the base are a bit odd. Trees don't sit up like a table, the whole thing should be sitting on the ground. Roots normally vine outwards just a LITTLE bit before they go underground. The bottom honestly feels too wierd, I don't like it.
The middle part of the tree feels barren, if you add maybe 3 or so small branches and maybe 1 or 2 larger ones, it wouldn't feel that way. Another way to make it not feel barren is massive flowers or massive vines specked all over the whole tree. You'd probably want to make those massive flowes or vines out of wool.
You mentioned you were going to do interior decorating and that's fine, I'll critisize that later.
Oh, another thing I'd like to mention is the top. From above, I noticed the leaves don't connect. I think it should have leaves connecting all of the big bushels on top of the tree. I'd also suggest vines made of leaf blocks under those connected bushels to make it looks nicer when you're inside or below.
3/5 so far. I'm not impressed, seen better. Others are easily impressed only because it's large and/or they don't have the time or patience to build that kind of thing.
Hope to see you progress in this build.
Edit: I just realized the trunk, I hate it. There's this skinny trunk and then this massive amount of branches and bushels on top. It needs to be A LOT thicker.
I understand you're merely sharing, but the above would make it a lot better.
while the tree can be improved by the above statements, it is a great build.
i love it, if you made it something one could survive in it would be even better.
I'm not saying it's a bad build, just could be improved.
I mainly used these three pictures to figure out what parts would work together to achieve my main goal, give the tree as much useable area as possible while not looking like a box.
1.The first picture, the root/trunk area.
I overlayed this image over a grid pattern to figure out the scale that I could create the tree in a world and have the canopy just above the clouds. The lean angle of this tree and everything was done with this image and a grid pattern.
2.The canopy.
I used the angles from the image because I felt it would be best for creating the stairwells in the limbs and having the canopy have as much useful area as possible. I only used the angles of this because if I did it exactly it would not provide much useful protected area.
3.Proportion and size.
I used this image because I liked the way this fits in with the other trees in the picture. Also canopy width and height proportions where put on a grid and figured on top of the original trunk from this picture as well.
This is what the inside will be like when finished. It will be like an elven village entirely inside the tree where multiple NPCs could be put.
I did not make the tree too easy navigable because during the movie it was easy to lose where you were in the canopy, and I wanted whoever used the tree to have the same sensation.
Thank you for your ideas yukaboy! I should have taken more time to give a better impression on my inspiration/goal in my first post, but posts like yours help me to be creative and approach this from an out of the box perspective. Things come out better when more people get involved, and people like yourself are not scared to make an informative post about their perspective even if it can come across as abrasive. When I stare at something for so long I feel it gets boring, but as an automobile custom airbrush artist I know it is easy to over do it because of that, so I hold back.
Oh and if you want to use Birch for the flooring, then use Oak and Spruce for the furnitures instead.
Oh and on the outside, the Vines + Glowstone + Glass Pane combo is awesome but on the inside, try covering all Glowstone with Trapdoors instead.
And try putting some foliage inside
I thought about that, but I was not sure if it would be to much or not. I would think, if I did it, I would have to do it like the one pictured in pic #5.
Doing this would put a 4x4 stairwell right through the middle of every floorplan on every floor. It would take up a lot of room and would make designing the floors harder.
Do you think it would offset the problems it causes?
That is some great ideas. I really like the trapdoor idea a lot.