Sims 2 Discoveries !

"SleepycatDSL;14797624" wrote:
You don't get SC4 trees in TS2 so their file size doesn't matter. From what I have read, if you place a tree on the terrain in SC4 and then put that terrain in TS2, when you go to use it, something in the file tells TS2 that the terrain has trees (not how many) so TS2 then picks a tree any tree and randomly throws a random number of them on the terrain.

You can see it just by picking a terrain that has trees and making a few new neighborhoods with it. I used to do that to get one with less trees, before I got SC4 and started making my own, without trees.

The old tutorial used to say palm trees were the only one that doesn't get transferred, but I think they did when I tried it once.
As for any tree, all of the SC4 terrains I've made have transferred the same type of tree to my game of The Sims 2 as was placed in SC4. What I can't remember is if it was from manually placing those trees in SC4, which you can do, or from the God Mode of 'flora'? or whatever button it was that ya know just painted clusters of trees around, and I think with that there was a button for each type of forest, so there'd be like similar climate zone type trees and if you released pause for time to go by before starting the mayor mode, those trees would multiply, especially if you let years and years go by. However, whichever way of placing those trees SC4 it was, the same type of tree did transfer in multiples to my The Sims 2 game. I deliberately made one such terrain once with the types of trees I wanted to appear in my Sims 2 game, quite a few of them, and when I opened it in my Sims 2 game, the place was totally covered, in the particular trees that I wanted, and then I manually grabbed and bulldozed areas of trees to place my lots, I wanted it to be like that, it was a nice view from my sims' windows, I thought. I do remember with that one that some of the clusters that appeared in my game weren't what I'd placed in the SC4 terrain, but most of them were. Some of them were those group tree decoration from the neighbourhood view and when I'd grab them there'd be like a bunch of them in a circle lift up to be moved or deleted.
It might be because the same types of trees that are in SC4 are mostly in Sims 2.