The Black Sea is their one and only domestic summer holiday destination… Used to be.

Not something that affects many people. By Moscow standards, several tens of thousands is a few apartment buildings.

News came out that he personally called to stop the construction of a gunpowder facility. We all know that this is a critical resource in the war. https://www.svobodnaevropa.bg/a/33266401.html Now you see how much the presumption is off and how infuriating all this is.

I don’t know it, but if it supports transparent textures, you could try something like this: https://animium.com/2008/08/lowpoly-trees. The basic idea (not exactly what’s in the link) is that each branch is a texture on a plane facing your camera - clearly works only if camera angle doesn’t change. Depending on engine performance and distance from objects, you could simplify down to having 3-4 layers per tree. I’d call this something along the lines of “lowpoly parallax trees”. I’ve seen it working very neatly in a top-down third-person demo of Blender Game Engine a while ago.

A neat way of producing these could be getting a hipoly model of a tree and culling sliced renders of its branches.

Of course, if you don’t have things behind the tree, or the tree moving, you don’t need parallax at all and could bake the whole tree on a small surface.

A lot of decisions depend on the exact affordances of the game.

It’s a million dollar question, isn’t it. I’d think you’ll need to consider having baked textures as an option.

What engine are you using? That makes a big difference.

Right now Turkey is the military dominating the Black Sea. The only actual risk for them is if the sea gets demilitarised. They certainly don’t want this.

He declares things like this for ages, yet he informally controls the chief prosecutor’s office (and with this practically the entire legal system) in the country and as a consequence nobody moves a finger. This is not something that any politician on the continent doesn’t know. It is a deliberate and well-informed act. https://www.politico.eu/article/bulgaria-how-it-became-mafia-state-of-eu/ Watch this space, but so far no actual signs.