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Grow the Departure Trees from the Photo with Meshy

The approved departure photo shows a row of five or six big leafy trees behind the right fence and smaller street trees along the left road; the simulator shows none — the scorecard's biggest deduction, 1 out of 5. Instead of hand-building trees, grow real 3D models from the photo's own crowns, so the shapes match by birth.

1 / 5Trees today · biggest deduction
4 / 5Target · trees category
~4Crowns to grow
3 daysMeshy file expiry

Grow the trees, don't sculpt them. Feed each real crown from the approved photo into Meshy, download the textured models before the service deletes them, then plant them at the photo's positions and heights — every trunk and crown clear of the train's path.

The reference — grow the trees from these

The approved departure photos are the source material. Each distinct crown gets cropped from here and fed to Meshy, so the models match the real shapes by birth.

Approved operator-eye departure photo showing leafy trees behind the right fence and street trees along the left road
Operator-eye departure · the primary referenceA row of five or six big leafy trees behind the right fence; smaller street trees along the left road. The simulator currently shows none — this is the 1/5 deduction.
Elevated Target Field departure context photo
Target Field contextElevated view confirming tree massing and positions behind the fence line and along the corridor.

  1. How it works

    Meshy is a service that turns a picture into a textured 3D model. We already have a working helper for it: a script that sends an image and downloads the finished model in a format the simulator's engine loads natively. The secret key comes from our standard secrets vault.

  2. The work Core

    Crop a clean, tight picture of each distinct tree crown from the approved photo — three or four right-side crowns and one street tree are enough, since repeats can be rotated for variety. Feed each crop through the Meshy script, asking for a modest polygon budget so the simulator stays fast. Download every model immediately; the service deletes files after three days. Save them in the app's asset folder.

    Then plant them: load the models, place them behind the right fence and along the left road at the photo's positions and heights, and remove the old hand-built trees. Every trunk and crown stays clear of the space the train passes through.

  3. Watch out for

    • Models arrive at arbitrary size and facing — measure each against a known height before planting.
    • Crop tightly so no background gets baked into the model.
    • Respect the app's existing mesh-count budget.

  4. Prove it

    Placement-and-clearance test, fresh capture, overlay comparison against the photo, independent re-grade. Success: trees at 4 out of 5 or better, smooth frame rate, no other category worse.