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Finally I ported the palm tree and the birch tree from ethereal into independent mods and can be used now in Minetest Game. They are placed in the same way as the default trees

The tree mod is necessary as it provides some common functions.

This is just a proof of concept and you may expect some bugs.

The tree mod contains an example how mts schematics can be converted to lua scripts. this was necessary to rename the node definition of the palm nodes (thanks to paramat and, I guess, sofar for the script)

This could be a way to add new trees to MTG (not for mapgen v6)

Hint: the tree mod provides a new leaves decay method that will come to MTG some day. I'm not sure how this works in combination with the default ABM. The API may change in the final version





Github: https://github.com/MarkuBu/mb_trees

Add the palm wax, coconut slice and candle from ethereal and made a door with palm wood and palm leaves (may need some improvement)

Link to Github added in first post

burli wrote:Add the palm wax, coconut slice and candle from ethereal and made a door with palm wood and palm leaves (may need some improvement)

Link to Github added in first post

Looks very good burli, I'm checking it out.
Great idea for the doors, using leaves. I like that

I want to add birch tar. With that tar you can make better tools with a higher durability and a stronger leather armor

Nicely done burli :)
Glad you got everything worked out with the schemes. I agree the leaves make a cool door.

Add bamboo from ethereal (here on grassland. Need more biomes now), but add more leaves and more variation in height

Using Lua table schematics is much more flexible

But I will add more nodes before I push it to github

awesome!

I made this birch trees by hand. I will one or both convert to a schematic. But I think the one with the thinner trunk looks better

And a "small" Baobab tree (made with acacia wood and leaves. Can be changed later in the schematic)

Two more Baobab's

Larger palm tree (I forgot the coconuts)

And a bigger acacia tree

Finally, bigger Acacia tree placed by mapgen

Aaand large and gigant baobab trees



And yes, they are hollow

Coming next: new nodes for Baobab tree and a new redwood tree

burli wrote:I made this birch trees by hand. I will one or both convert to a schematic. But I think the one with the thinner trunk looks better

I agree, the thinner tree looks better.
These look really nice burli.

burli wrote:Coming next: new nodes for Baobab tree and a new redwood tree

no it's not a tree that. it's... a... what?

azekill_DIABLO wrote:no it's not a tree that. it's... a... what?

It's a beacon.

missing the lights but yes, a beacon!

Some pine trees, similar to the Minecraft spruce trees

This is looking quite impressive!

This is a nice idea for a smaller tree. It uses a simple fence post as trunk, but looks great

hey, that does look really nice. good idea

There is even a simpler version.

I noticed that schematics taller than 16 nodes are problematic. If they are placed at the top of a chunk they will be cut.

That means, the redwood tree can only be placed between y = 0 and y = 31, otherwise he will be cut at the top. The redwood has a height of 32 nodes

burli wrote:I noticed that schematics taller than 16 nodes are problematic. If they are placed at the top of a chunk they will be cut.

That means, the redwood tree can only be placed between y = 0 and y = 31, otherwise he will be cut at the top. The redwood has a height of 32 nodes

Well..., there go my planned trees : /

L-system trees will work soon without shadow bug. They are not limited in height afaik

https://github.com/minetest/minetest/pull/4967

I saw that a while back... I'll have to look at it again