Bushy Leaves bushy_leaves
This mod changes leaves to render bushy instead of boxy.
Fork of Bushy Leaves by erle. Now with better performance (thanks to meshes) and proper Plantlife support.
Tested with:
full vs cheap
It can be hard to choose what mesh type you want for bushy leaves. By default
it is full, but you can configure bushy leaves to render with the cheap
mesh instead.
full mesh is (almost) identical to the the nodebox that was used in the
original mod.
cheap mesh has been simplified to get better performance. But it wasn't a
lossless optimization; you can see the differences from the full mesh here.
The choice is completely up to you. But if you're a server owner and want to
use this mod on your server (god forbid), at the very least do all your players
with lower end devices a favor and go with cheap.
Both meshes were created by singularis-mzf, see models/license.txt.
This is great
The performance issue of the original made it somewhat unusable for me, the idea to turn the nodeboxes to meshes had been around for a while, glad to see someone actually doing it.
Btw. if you just use the nodegroup "leaves" that should cover it (i know it does for mcl* and mtg) and you won't need to do any string.find and probably don't need to exclude the plantlife stuff specifically either (yes the pine needles have group leaves as well: https://github.com/minetest/minetest_game/blob/master/mods/default/nodes.lua#L975 )
My thanks
I have included the "cheap" version of the leaves mesh in my game. I am usually not too found of mods that try to fight the blocky nature of voxel games, but flora is good exception.