inspired by chipp walters metapeeps i want to create children peeps and populate a kindergarten playground with them.

to warm up i started playing with eco systems and distribution control.

here i used the checkerboard pattern to make the trees go where i want them to ... that was fairly easy. now ...

... here i wanted to control different plant. so i used the leopard pattern und added a 3color thingie for color map of the underlying plain. for the tree and bushes i used separate eco layers each replicating the leopard pattern and then converting that to 3color output, then converting color to brightness and the using filtering to "cut out" the color that i want to use as a mask to the plant distribution.

question 1: is this overly complicated? can i do this easier?**
question 2:** can i use color patterns from other layer so that i am using the same basis or do i have to replicate this basis every time?

and then next ...

now i added the metapeep eco, modified the distribution so that the people clump together. now the clumping looks fine but the people go everywhere (even into the bushes and trees).

question3: can i and if yes how can i control where the people go in general (the light ground color area done with my leopard pattern, like i used before) and with that area i want them to clump (with some other pattern like done in the metapeep eco material)?

thanks in advance
chris