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This mod changes the look of default trees.
Add plantlike_leaves = true to minetest.conf to make it work
and plantlike_leaves_rotated = true to make plantlike leaves become rotated randomly, which looks great but doesn't work correctly together with leafdecay.

Depends: default
License: WTFPL
Download: zip, tar.gz
github: plantlike_leaves



If you got ideas or found bugs, please tell them to me.

How to install a mod?

Would it be possible to have a summary table of the rendering performance of these leaves against the configurable in-game types. I'd assume that it is somewhere between fancy and simplified, but it would be nice to have some statistics.

The leaves is replace by two planes right? Looks great, and the performance might increase as well.

Agreed, Ethereal mod uses these types of leaves to keep things fast also.

qwertymine3 wrote:Would it be possible to have a summary table of the rendering performance of these leaves against the configurable in-game types. I'd assume that it is somewhere between fancy and simplified, but it would be nice to have some statistics.

lt is possible, l don't know how to do it.

Kevin Tee wrote:The leaves is replace by two planes right? Looks great, and the performance might increase as well.

yes, thanks

TenPlus1 wrote:Agreed, Ethereal mod uses these types of leaves to keep things fast also.

Does ethereal also rotates the plantlike leaves randomly (degrotate paramtype2)?

Leaves appear as is, no rotation unless you are placing them manually in which case param2 is used so leafdecay doesn't make them disappear.

l updated the mod, it now works for every leaves, not just default ones. Tell me if l should add a setting to make it work on default nodes only.

This is nice. Good work

qwertymine3 wrote:Would it be possible to have a summary table of the rendering performance of these leaves against the configurable in-game types. I'd assume that it is somewhere between fancy and simplified, but it would be nice to have some statistics.

I have the same fps as fancy. No significant difference

Found a bug with snow

burli, in reality needles covered with snow are only entirely white seen from above if enough snow covers them, as far as l know, snow uses the leveled nodebox and can have different heights, so not every pine should look same, l think this isn't added yet

Leafs in Minecraft seems to be made of regular leafs and plantlike leafs. And the plantlike leafs are shifted randomly and are not square. Looks nice

thanks for informing me, l think such leaves can't be made by a mod in minetest (without causing lots of lag)

I think Sofar is working on something like this. Random offset centers, rotations, sizes and even plant shapes x + # * (<== The shapes)

I believe it's on Github and he even showed a demo video. Looks cool.

I think it would be better too add the additional faces to the leaf nodes because of the waving. The waving of the plantlike leafs looks a little bit strange

burli wrote:

Leafs in Minecraft seems to be made of regular leafs and plantlike leafs.

Looks a bit like the new firelike drawtype...