New Drawtype for Tall plants

[Napiophelios]

I think "default:grass_5" and "farming:wheat_8" should use drawtype="firelike"
It really fills in the spaces and makes open feilds look full and "meadowy"
It doesnt look so good for junglegrass or dry shrubs though because of their textures.

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[Minetestforfun]

Great idea, but what about frame per second with the fire drawtype ?

[Napiophelios]

Great idea, but what about frame per second with the fire drawtype ?

Well the textures arent animated so I didnt really consider that to be a problem.

The world I am testing this with has mobs enabled so its already a bit slow.
But I seem to get the same FPS with or with out the changes while walking in a field of tall grass.

I will have to create a new test world and get back to you on that :)


EDIT:

I use 32px texture pack and all default mods
plus my Monkeygrass mod to quickly make a large 30x30 feild of grass_5
I am getting a steady range 24-36 FPS

Thats about normal for my netbook nowadays.

[Minetestforfun]

If there aren't performance issues with this drawtype for grasses, your idea is really interresting

[Dragonop]

I would like it to be supported as a graphic option (not a shader), but I'm not sure if that's currently possible. If there are not many lost fps for me, then it's a +1

[firefox]

or we could ask the developers to include a "bushlike" drawtype in the next version, that looks just like firelike but without animation.

[Amaz]

I really like the sound of this idea!

or we could ask the developers to include a "bushlike" drawtype in the next version, that looks just like firelike but without animation.

Whether a node is animated or not depends on the nodedef, not the drawtype, so there's no need for a new drwatype. Just make sure that the nodedef doesn't have any animation stuff in it. (This is the animation code for fire: https://github.com/minetest/minetest_ga ... ua#L14-L22)

[Napiophelios]

This is probably something best left to a mod, I doubt it would go over well with the tall ones;
It looks really neat though :)