Tree

Trees are objects that can be placed in the world.

Tree Dialog[edit | edit source]

ID: The editor ID for the object
Trunk Flexibility: Controls animation of the root bone in a skinned mesh (horizontal only)
Branch Flexibility: Controls animation of secondary bones connected to the trunk (horizontal and vertical)
Leaf Amplitude: Amplitude of the swaying animation in leaf parts of the mesh
Leaf Frequency: Frequency of the animation (how fast it moves)
Tree Model: The model used for the object
- Edit: Change the model
Name: In game display name

Ingredient: The ingredient item that is produced when the tree is harvested
Harvest Sound: The sound to play when being harvested
- Spring: Chance of harvesting during spring
- Summer: Chance of harvesting during summer
- Fall: Chance of harvesting during fall
- Winter: Chance of harvesting during winter

Flexibility/Amplitude/Frequency parameters are highly dependent on the structure of the specific mesh and must be fine-tuned on a case by case basis, although a good starting point might be 3 for leaf amplitude and 1 for leaf frequency.
- Leaf Amplitude and Leaf Frequency parameters relate to 2D parts of a mesh that have been converted to BSLeafAnimNodes and vertex painted.
- Trunk Flexibility and Branch Flexibility control animation of 2D and 3D parts of a skinned mesh (converted to BSTreeNodes). The Trunk is the root bone and can only move along the x and y axes (to prevent the tree flopping up and down), whereas Branches are the secondary bones and can move in all directions.
Wind Speed is known to affect BSTreeNode animations, but may or may not also affect BSLeafAnimNodes.
In the Special Edition version of the Creation Kit, there is a bug where references to skinned trees have oversized bounding boxes in the render window, making it difficult to select other objects when they are present.
- This can be circumvented with the following ini tweak in CreationKitPrefs.ini:

[Trees]
bRenderSkinnedTrees=0