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VanessaE wrote:In the 0.0.5...the zip file is named "growing cactus" rather than "growing trees". I guess this wasn't intentional. :-)

Shucks I was really excited to try the new growing trees, so I downloaded it anyway and renamed it to growing trees. Unfortunately it blew up because I think it really is a link to the cactus mod and not the tree mod.

It indeed is the cactus mod, though I found out a little less ... unceremoniously than you did :-)

(I tried to craft two sapling -> one growing tree sapling, which gave no result)

Sorry I messed up the links, fixed it.

The download-service you are using is making me throw up so I have mirrored the newest release.
http://media.w3-net.de/growing_trees-0.0.5.zip

The growing cactii look beautiful, even while in the process of growing. The growing trees not as much. For example, what I'm seeing is a trunk that grows to about 12 high with a really small clump of leaves at the top. So it looks like a cotton swab. Then after a while small nubs grow out. That might be good for a cactus but not for a tree. I was looking at real trees, and their branches aren't a bunch of horizontal, lshaped and vertical branches. they are more 45% angle and straight up branches, and the branching starts fairly low down like this:

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And also a lot more leaves around all the branches, but not the lower trunk.

Neuromancer wrote:The growing cactii look beautiful, even while in the process of growing. The growing trees not as much. For example, what I'm seeing is a trunk that grows to about 12 high with a really small clump of leaves at the top. So it looks like a cotton swab. Then after a while small nubs grow out. That might be good for a cactus but not for a tree. I was looking at real trees, and their branches aren't a bunch of horizontal, lshaped and vertical branches. they are more 45% angle and straight up branches, and the branching starts fairly low down like this:

| \ |
\ | |
\ | /
H
H


And also a lot more leaves around all the branches, but not the lower trunk.

I agree to that. Though my trees are not very big as of now. And I must say I am quite satisfied at what this mod already supplies at this early stage of development.

I have another feature request. Can you instead of crafting the mods saplings with two saplings use the original saplings. It seems to make a lot more sense.

Timber mod will not work with growing trees. Since it will only remove "default:jungletree", "default:papyrus", "default:cactus", "default:tree" that are stacked. I am reporting this here because I think there should be a way to not have a world where A lot of trees have a missing trunk below and unreachable wood above and growing_trees does not address this Problem as of yet. Rewriting part of timber is definitive an option. Atm if you just add growing_tree-nodes to timber it will leave you with the trunk missing and the sprout intact. From the code I would say it leaves branches, too. All in all very unsatisfactory atm.

Somebody did write code to make timber compatible with growing trees here http://minetest.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1590&p=2

@sysedit @Neuromancer growing trees aren't expected to grow that way I'll have a look whats wrong with it. They should grow branches as soon as thei reach a height of 4.

@all trees should look much better in growth by this version pleas tell me if they don't

My trees are growing through a stone structure, is there a fix for that yet? I have one next to a building and the limbs and leaves are replacing some of the stone blocks.

@BrandonReese I'll have a look at it that shouldn't happen of course

got crashed while using this mod. some Value where set to NIL, i guess it was the max height .... should be picked up as bug :)

can you please supply a crash log finding "some values" where nil is a little bit difficult

Does that helps?

yes that helps thank you!

@BrandonReese I've added some additional check please tell me if that doesn't fix your problem.

hit a bug
12:25:20: VERBOSE[main]: error_message = ServerError: LuaError: error: ....3-win32\bin\..\mods\minetest\growing_trees/abms.lua:209: attempt to compare function with number

@spots wow you reached maximum tree size ....
replace line 209 by "if math.random() < 0.1 then" I'll release a fixed version soon

hehehe yea for me breaking stuff lol all i did was cut down the default tress and plant yours all around my home because yours makes things look so much nicer IMO

Thanks it's always good to hear someone likes your work.

0.0.8 fixes the bug

I hope this was the last one to occurr for some time, I'm getting a little bit ashamed by that simple bugs :)

no worries man it's all good just keep up the great work

I'm still getting the really tall trees that have no branches and just a clump of leaves at the top in vesion .8. After a while last time they eventually started growing branches.

bug was most likely introduced in 0.0.7 ...
abms.lua line 132 replace "local node_at_pos = minetest.env:get_node(pos)"
by "local node_at_pos = minetest.env:get_node(growpos)"

I'll do some more testing this time prior to release of 0.0.9

Hi, i am looking forward for your next release. I am also a big fan of this brilliant addon it makes the map look really nice !!! :)

yesterday i reimplemented growing_trees mod. so far i can tell the trees are only growing really high without branches ... this might be a bug?

Sorry I don't understad what did you do?
I'm a little bit surprised you reimplemented it in only one day :-)

Is 0.0.9 still not growing branches for you?

i have 0.0.9 installed and having no issues at all the last bug fix is working great

Could you try to use another site such as 2shared that is free to download. It has hit the max downloaders.

Can you rehost the files? perhaps on ompldr.org or github. because mediafire won't let me access it