Custom Foliage Collection

[Captain Callum]

With so many wanted foliage types and not that many workshop authors uploading that much custom foliage, I decided to use my prop building knowledge and attempt to fill the gaps that the foliage collection ingame has left. I will try to include as many types of foliage that are possible to make, so really small unique flowering plants will have to be ruled out due to the lack of small pieces for that. We can expect grasses, shrubs, larger flowers similar to species already ingame, and hopeful a wide variety of trees, this will all be looked on a global scale like my usual animal blueprints to increase diversity of foliage for all regions.

So with the foliage gaps in mind, I started with a pack for polar foliage, the tundra representation is pretty bad so this was the obvious choice to go with. 10 types were picked hopefully adding some very common arctic tundra foliage and some unique plants like antarctica's only 2 flowering plants.

The polar foliage pack includes:

• Antarctica Hair Grass
• Antarctica Pearlwort
• Dwarf Birch
• Arctic Willow
• Arctic Cottongrass
• Snow Buttercup
• Arctic Bell Heather
• Mountain Sorrel
• Purple Saxifrage
• Wideleaf Polargrass

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[Captain Callum]

If anyone has any specific foliage requests you want me to make, let me know and I'll add it to my to-do list

 

[Annie_konik]

Oh, those are lovely! Thank you for sharing them!
Yes, I have a little dream, a magnolia tree, for example saucer magnolia. Do you think that's doable?

 

[Captain Callum]

Oh, those are lovely! Thank you for sharing them!
Yes, I have a little dream, a magnolia tree, for example saucer magnolia. Do you think that's doable?

Possibly! The white/pink mix might take a bit of work to figure out but I'll try at least to see if it looks any good.

 

[Captain Callum]

Wild & Ornamental Grasses pack

The next blueprint as part of my collection is a more general blueprint, a mix of wild and ornamental (grown for display purposes like in gardens) grasses are useful for a lot of places around a zoo. These work for gardens, plazas, habitats, nature areas or background foliage. I chose 16 types of grass, 8 wild / 8 ornamental, trying to cover a wide range of popular grasses found in zoos/gardens while also trying to fill out needed biome representation such as the coastal grasses from new zealand.

The wild & ornamental grasses pack includes:

• Wild Grasses
  • Tussac Grass
  • Silver Tussock Grass
  • Red Tussock Grass
  • Prairie Junegrass
  • Mexican Feathergrass
  • Perennial Ryegrass
  • Purple Moor Grass
  • Desho Grass
• Ornamental Grasses
  • Hameln Fountain Grass
  • Red Head Fountain Grass
  • Muhly Grass
  • Blue Fescue Grass
  • Dwarf Pampas Grass
  • Hakone Grass
  • Pheasant's Tail Grass
  • Chinese Silver Grass

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[Captain Callum]

Palm Trees Pack

The first blueprint of trees has arrived in the form of a palm trees pack, one of the most essential foliage needs when building anything tropical related. While the game provided a decent selection of palm trees, it still lacked many of the unique and iconic palm trees found in popular zoos such as the mexican and california fan palms found in the san diego zoo. Adding in those really tall 30 metre palm trees was one goal of this pack but also adding a variety of small palms, palms that are under 4 metres in height are very useful for small planters and indoor tropical houses.

The Palm Trees Pack contains:

• Mexican Fan Palm
• California Fan Palm
• Talipot Palm
• Makalani Palm
• Raffai Palm
• Chinese Fan Palm
• Sabal Palm
• Urucuri Palm
• Silver Date Palm
• Paurotis Palm
• Dwarf Palmetto
• Sago Palm
• Areca Palm
• Jelly Palm

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[Annie_konik]

Oh wow they're amazing

 

[NachoB]

I'm really liking these foliage!

 

[FoxyDee]

These are too good. The palm collection in particular will come very handy for me. I would like to ask if you could make a Buddleia bush, similar to what we have in the Butterflies walkthrough exhibit. I tried to fiddleing with the small Buddleia flowers and it looked horrible, because I am so bad at it, I am sure you would do so much better than me. No rush though.

 

[Captain Callum]

African Trees Pack

5 new trees, completely built from scratch using the oceania driftwood pieces has allowed me to introduce unique trees into the game at the cost of a few hundred pieces per tree. Making new trees out of existing trees or inverted trees like what I did with the palm trees has its limitations especially for grassland and desert trees with unique shapes. I chose 5 trees from both tropical and grassland biomes to fill out the large gaps of what I felt needed more variety.

The african trees pack contains:

• Travellers tree
• African mahogany tree
• Msasa tree
• Mopane tree
• Gum acacia tree

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[Captain Callum]

Kelp & Cactus Packs

2 smaller foliage packs have been added for some essential smaller groups of foliage. The first is kelp, something sorely missing for underwater environments. Large kelp can be seen in the form of bull kelp, golden kelp or giant kelp in larger tanks for sea lions, seals, african penguins and other deep diving aquatic animals. I used the ribbons from the zookeeper pack to create the wavy texture of the kelp.

The second pack was more species of cacti, a great boost to the north and south american deserts. I focused on the large prickly pear tree found on the galapagos and small/spiky cactus found in south american and north american deserts. Cacti like the hedgehog cactus offers a very different small, spiky cactus group that even has some flowers on them.

The Kelp pack includes:

• Bull kelp
• Giant Kelp
• Golden Kelp
• Oarweed

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The cactus pack includes:

• Galapagos Prickly Pear Cactus
• Hedgehog Cactus
• Spiky Pincushion Cactus
• Cholla Cactus
• Fairy Castle Cactus
• Silver Torch Cactus
• Giant Copiapoa

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[Captain Callum]

Desert Foliage Pack

Along with a variety of cacti, a general desert foliage pack was also needed. Some of the unique desert foliage from various deserts around the world was missing especially the foliage that can make desert landscapes unique with colorful arid plants. Focus on this pack was generally north american due to the abundance of foliage diversity there but there is also african, asian, and australian desert representation.

The desert foliage pack contains:

• Desert Sage
• Chuparosa
• Desert Willow
• Black Saxaul
• Desert Rose
• Elephant Trunk
• Mojave Yucca
• Damara Milk Bush
• Banana Yucca
• New Mexican Agave
• Butterfly Agave
• Ocotillo
• Nara Melon
• Welwitschia
• Sturt's Desert Rose
• Pink Mulla Mulla
• Honey Grevillea

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[QueenCinna]

I love your work so much!! You've done a fantastic job and I am downloading everything now!


Any chance you'd look at doing mulga trees? My outback builds feel empty without them. Sometimes all the eye can see is mulga forever out there

 

[Captain Callum]

I love your work so much!! You've done a fantastic job and I am downloading everything now!


Any chance you'd look at doing mulga trees? My outback builds feel empty without them. Sometimes all the eye can see is mulga forever out there

I can add that to my oceania trees plan, got a few eucalyptus trees and new zealand trees already planned.

 

[QueenCinna]

I can add that to my oceania trees plan, got a few eucalyptus trees and new zealand trees already planned.

Thank you so much! I appreciate it so much. If you want any reference pics let me know I have taken a fair few as of late

 

[Captain Callum]

Thank you so much! I appreciate it so much. If you want any reference pics let me know I have taken a fair few as of late

If you have any pictures of the type you would like, I'll make good use of them. Problem with google images is so many different tree shapes and maybe even the entirely wrong species which happened with my african trees.

 

[QueenCinna]

If you have any pictures of the type you would like, I'll make good use of them. Problem with google images is so many different tree shapes and maybe even the entirely wrong species which happened with my african trees.

I included a mix of my images and some from Google, but they're silvery leafed trees and quite shrubby, they have little cylindrical yellow flowers when in bloom and can grow quite densely and grow in massive grassy woodlands. Mulga scrub accounts for a massive amount of the outback, which is why I am a bit sad frontier hasn't added them, emus and red kangaroos are abundant in this type of biome, actually perfect for the outback/desert/grassland zoo!

 

[Captain Callum]

Buddleia/Butterfly Bush Pack

As I build various foliage packs for the workshop, I do get requests for certain types of foliage that I do try to fulfill. So starting off that request list is a pack of various types of buddleia from the small buddleia size provided ingame to the large walkthrough exhibit buddleia which is sorely missing ingame. I decided to use the flowering buddleia for an enlarged version of that buddleia and also included 10 custom built buddleia covering the wide variety of colorful buddleia's found in gardens.

The buddleia pack includes:

• Dapper White Buddleia
• Sungold Buddleia
• Black Knight Buddleia
• Hot Raspberry Buddleia
• Planet Zoo Buddleia - the enlarged version of the existing buddleia
• Royal Red Buddleia
• Tricolor Buddleia
• Summer Skies Buddleia
• Purple Haze Buddleia
• Violet Cascade Buddleia
• Pink Delight Buddleia

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[Captain Callum]

Black Willow Tree

Focusing on some wetland foliage currently and the first is the North American black willow tree which offers a vastly different tree compared to the weeping willow tree already ingame. A single tree pack allows me to add several variants of the 1 species as the black willow comes in a wide range of sizes. I can also do this for any other tree that needs its own pack such as the previously requested mulga tree.

The black willow tree pack includes:

• A 3 metre willow shrub/tree sapling
• A 9 metre medium tree
• A 15 metre large tree

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[Captain Callum]

Mulga Tree pack

Saving a couple african branch blueprints has helped greatly for building new trees faster, this blueprint is the mulga tree (which @QueenCinna requested), an important species for Inland Australia or the outback. The lack of oceania trees in general has always been a problem for the game so these kind of blueprints should help the diversity of australian zoo areas/zoos. As the mulga tree came in quite a few shapes and sizes, I decided to include a mix of shrubs and trees, the highest tree being 10 metres in height as this is not a large tree.

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