I can’t remember where I saw it but I read somewhere that the Witcher 3 devs had someone on staff who was a botanist and so they took special care in designing the meadows and wooded areas. I remember reading the vegetation was designed to specifically include wildflowers that would have been widespread in medieval Slavic regions of Europe. I thought that was neat. I don’t often see period pieces acknowledge that vegetation also changes over time.
The opening scene in Gladiator is historically inaccurate because it’s a monoculture forest. Forests in Germania circa 180 AD were always polycultural because mass regrowth efforts for Europe’s depleted forests didn’t begin until the Middle Ages going into the Age of Sail. When that happened is when they planted the same species to create what we see in the film.
I can’t remember where I saw it but I read somewhere that the Witcher 3 devs had someone on staff who was a botanist and so they took special care in designing the meadows and wooded areas. I remember reading the vegetation was designed to specifically include wildflowers that would have been widespread in medieval Slavic regions of Europe. I thought that was neat. I don’t often see period pieces acknowledge that vegetation also changes over time.
The opening scene in Gladiator is historically inaccurate because it’s a monoculture forest. Forests in Germania circa 180 AD were always polycultural because mass regrowth efforts for Europe’s depleted forests didn’t begin until the Middle Ages going into the Age of Sail. When that happened is when they planted the same species to create what we see in the film.
Whoa ok this makes a lot of sense because I loved collecting plants in that and I credit it with getting me into botany.