Looking for opinions on flowers and landscaping ideas

[Chipl95]

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I'm mostly wondering which colours and types of flowers I should plant around Duskfall and where to put them. I wanna finish it a little more but I'm kind of at a loss of what to do, so any opinions would be amazing! Thanks in advance for your help.

 

[Chipl95]

Bump! I updated my DA and am still looking for opinions on how I can improve my town.

 

[MasterM64]

After looking at your town, I do have some ideas that can improve your town. This is constructive feedback based upon my opinion alone so please bear that in mind. Everyone has a different taste on what makes a town look good.

Path System
You are doing really well by having a path system established (a very crucial step!), but I feel like it is a bit "blocky" which makes the paths lack flow (especially during running). This can be resolved by introducing more "roundness" in turns and intersections. I also noticed 2-wide dead-ends in certain areas in town. Even though they all went to a destination (always try to avoid dead ends that lead to nowhere), I personally would recommend making them single wide and possibly make them curve towards their destination to help "stage the scene" (I recommend this only for Player, Villager houses, and more important buildings like the Cafe & Police Station). Lastly, when it comes to the pattern used for the paths, I think you are on to a neat idea! I would highly recommend revising the pattern to make it have a clean tile with adjacent patterns and possibly make the path have a more tiled or brick look.

Bridge Placement

Nicely done! I especially love how you put a bridge close to the waterfall (a Japanese style bridge would look really cool there with bamboo and regular oak trees for cherry blossoms)!

Landscaping

Like you requested in this thread, your primary reason for seeking opinions is for the landscaping. Before I can give further advice on how to go about your landscaping, is there a particular theme or atmosphere you are seeking for your town? Outside of developing a path system, coming up with a town theme/atmosphere can be quite a challenge since it will determine how to design the landscaping of the town and PWPs. I will say though that you are already doing something smart by placing bushes along pathways to act as "guard rails" and to help with path retention (if you were planning on going towards natural dirt paths). Additionally, I noticed that there is a lot of fruit on the ground, is there a reason for it?

I look forward to hearing more about your vision for the town soon so I can help with landscaping ideas! If you want any help with path system or landscaping design in-game, feel free to shoot me a PM and I'll be glad to help you out! If you want to visit my town for inspiration, my Dream Address is: 4F00-00F6-46CA .

 

[Chipl95]

Thank you for your input! My town has a mainly natural theme, with a zen area. I've started attempting to make a cobblestone path to replace my current one. I really like having the bushes beside my paths since it gives me the possible option of having natural paths in the future. (Though I think I will keep design paths)

I guess if I were to pick a theme, it would be a dusk theme since that's when I always set my DA. As for the fruit, I had been TTing to get Gracie's fashion checks. I would shake my fruit trees once, and then leave them until I finished, letting them grow again. I set that DA before I collected the fruit since the sky was just perfect and I didn't want to wait.

 

[stiney]

For dusk (the sun has set but the sky isn't fully dark) I'd probably go for purple, blue, white, and black flowers. If you mean sunset, I'd do red, orange, and yellow flowers. Maybe some purple and pink for the sunset, too.

 

[Christy.lee1989]

i love the way u have bushes on the side of your path. i have mine kinda like that. i use only two to three bushes together then skip some space, but i just didnt hae a lot of bushes, but i do love it. i agree that if it were me i would go with a differetn path, but thats just my opinion. i might have a lot of paths, but some of mine are made in rectangles and inside the rectangles i will put flowers and trees, i will add my DA and u can look if u want, im not too far yet, but at least u can see what i mean. but i add flowers that im trying to breed in the empty spaces where i put the paths too. i will need to update my DA at some point cause of right now none of my trees look lik ethey are fruit trees but thats because i ust picked them all! but how i do mine is put up an orchard and i put up 4 of every fruit there. mine is on the left of the train station right at the tracks. i put every one of my fruit there exceot my town fruit and i will put little orchards of those around, like a group of 4 or 5 orange trees around differetn places. then i have perfect oranges on the other side of the train sation at the tracks.

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[RascalCrossing]

After visiting your town I think that the paths should be updated or removed (I think a natural path surrounded by trees and bushes always looks great). No offense but the path was kind of like a little illusion, it kind of was hard a bit on my eyes and distracted from everything else, maybe try stone or brick that have light and a few different shades of one color and not like bright purple stars on a dark background. I did like the placement of bridges and villager houses, I think your town could use maybe a bit more flowers and pwps, but overall I think your town was nice. Also I think your town needs more of a “theme” as in maybe it’s a tropical town or a forest-y type of town or a sort of industrial theme. My town is kind of a cute-forest type of town and has a color scheme of purple, white, pink, blue, a little bit of gold, and overall lighter colors. I think as of flowers maybe you should have more hybrids and spread the flowers over different areas, they were kind of just in little patches, maybe flower colors such as orange, blue, purple, maybe a little pink, and yellow would work well considering the name of your town is duskfall and those are the colors you would normally see in the sky around dusk. Sorry if I sound judgmental lol. I don’t mean to come off so critical. I think your town looks nice but needs a little touch up here and there.

 

[MasterM64]

Thank you for your input! My town has a mainly natural theme, with a zen area. I've started attempting to make a cobblestone path to replace my current one. I really like having the bushes beside my paths since it gives me the possible option of having natural paths in the future. (Though I think I will keep design paths)

I guess if I were to pick a theme, it would be a dusk theme since that's when I always set my DA. As for the fruit, I had been TTing to get Gracie's fashion checks. I would shake my fruit trees once, and then leave them until I finished, letting them grow again. I set that DA before I collected the fruit since the sky was just perfect and I didn't want to wait.

You are absolutely welcome Chip! Makes sense, I was wondering why there was fruit all over the ground. lol Knowing that you have a Natural Zen themed town which still can look really good during dusk, you definitely should visit my town (with the Dream Address: 4F00-00F6-46CA or visiting me) since my town is a Nature Themed town with Zen elements and a Picture is worth more than a thousand words afterall!

 

[Chipl95]

Thank you for your feedback! I'm messing around with my paths and am working on a cobblestone type path which I like a lot better than my old ones. I'm also working on getting the hybrids you guys suggested/placing them so they aren't all in patches. I like pansies a lot, so I've been drawn to those but I have used a few other types of flowers.

I'd say my town theme is a cute forest. I don't want to over develop it, but I want to have stuff built and I like working on it. I absolutely love my zen park and don't think I'll change it too much.

I'm gonna do a lot of landscaping during my flight on Saturday so I may update my DA once I'm in England and the bushes I'll be planting grow.

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You are absolutely welcome Chip! Makes sense, I was wondering why there was fruit all over the ground. lol Knowing that you have a Natural Zen themed town which still can look really good during dusk, you definitely should visit my town (with the Dream Address: 4F00-00F6-46CA or visiting me) since my town is a Nature Themed town with Zen elements and a Picture is worth more than a thousand words afterall!

I'll visit your DA for sure! I'll do it now, in fact.

 

[Chipl95]

Bump! I updated today and would love some feedback!