Balthizarlucien

I'm open to the possibility of clutter like that, but I'd need a separate system in place for such a thing first. Its not something that I'd want to have spawn using the tree code. As far as super-large trees, I've never really been a big fan on them in other mods. Plus you end up running into placement issues where you might be able to place a tree like that near sea level, but you don't have nearly as much Y room towards the middle of an island.

 

for the big boys it wouldn't make sense for them spawning in the mountains anyway. couldn't you run a check for headroom so that you do not run into issues like this anyway? if not, what is the max headroom you would have from the top of the tallest peak to build limit? I would like to help the best I am able. as far as clutter is concerned, I do not know if this would work, but is is possible to add it in like you did for boulders or is that a no go?

Chestnut. only an hours worth of work. Each area for each tree is 15^2I will finish up with the planned last 4 some other time, my creative steam was running out, and I was getting bored. the trees where based off of oldworld growth pictures I could find across the internet.DeletedAS far as everyone else wanting a "blue" wood. Purple heart, poplar, and even ebony can all have a natural blue coloring, I've seen them in person in lumber stores. The poplar I saw in a lowes actually.

Poplar which is tinted blue comes from beetle infested trees. The beetle digs into the tree and in the process open a wound for a parasitic fungus. The fungus eventually kills the tree but not before staining the wood blue. It also occurs in several varieties of pine.

I would start by downloading my tree world save file to get a look at the other trees that have already been created. Some of those measurements are too wide to deal with. If I recall correctly, my tallest trees are ofc the sequoia and kapok at ~50m. You'll see in my tree world that I deal with a tree grid size of 27x27. By looking at other similar trees, you'll get a good idea for what I'm looking for.

I will have to do that! Although the acacia I built looks awesome in real size, it seemed huge in comparison to the average minecraft tree as well as the terrain it may have been seated on. I think though you should have some of the giants truly be epic in scale if that is at all possible as the cathedral buttress like roots of the kapok or the hulking mass of the sequoia can't truly be done the justice they deserve at a smaller scale. Second question for you bioxx would you like to have fallen/ decaying versions of each tree? Storm toppled roots and broken canopies would look like the forest has a true life cycle as would half buried logs etc.. Perhaps stumps of long dead giant trees could add some character too. What do you think?

So I have been gathering information about each tree so I could build a few fully grown specimens of each as well as juvenile and baby versions as well. I wanted to ask before investing the time in these builds if the actual sizes were good or if I needed to scale them down some first.

Secondly I noticed that the acacia tree is actually covered in sharp thorns so wanted to ask if you were planning to make the leaf blocks cause damage or not?

Acacia

21m tall, 21m wide crown

Ash

37m tall, 16m wide crown

Aspen

15m tall, 9m wide crown

Birch

19m tall, 22m wide crown

Chestnut

30m tall, 21m wide crown

Douglas fir

75m tall, 18m wide crown

Hickory

36m tall, 21m wide crown

Maple

23m tall, 15m wide crown

Oak

24m tall, 24m wide crown

Pine

70m tall, 18m wide crown

Sequoia

87m tall, 34m wide crown

Spruce

60m tall, 20m wide crown

Sycamore

31m tall, 31m wide crown

White cedar

20m tall, 8m wide crown

Willow

12m tall, 11m wide crown

Kapok

61m tall, 61m wide crown

Rosewood

12m tall, 12m wide crown

African Blackwood

9m tall, 9m wide crown

My server uses a 336 day year so I have seen them all

There is one for the rest of the dev team too

I would love to see a build contest or submissions forum for this but more pertinently for the trees that bioxx needs for the terrain gen testing. He had mentioned he wanted help in a tweet but I was unsure of a few things such as wether to use vanilla blocks or Tfc blocks and where to submit said schematics...

Perhaps you could enlighten us Bioxx?

Just wanted to say that the gui is awesome! Love the clean look of it. The only thing I am thinking needs a minor tweak is the creeper texture. It is too dark to see the detail you put into it. I might suggest lighting it just a touch so those details show. Keep up the good work!

ok, i got way too excited when i saw my pack being used. just going to throw that out there, rofl. its such a shame that world got corrupted, it was looking so beautiful. you have more build talent than i do that's for sure.

I actually love using your pack and I have been using it on the Ursine Nation server... I will need to post some pics of the Motte And Bailey I have been building

I still think peat is a myth. I've NEVER EVER found a single block ;)Granted, I've never seen a desert either, but I don't often venture past (-)5000 X.

I am totally with you on the peat block! Peat blocks, deserts, barren tundra are all just fantastic hearsay until a seed is posted! I am going to start a thread where we in the community can post those ultra rare seeds let's see how long it takes to find peat!

I thought deserts were perhaps a myth as I had personally never seen one... Cool to know they are at least possible

That looks pretty awesome but I bet I know why it fails... It has to do with the way TFC builds its layers, ores etc.

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When you say oak, you're talking about the blackened texture for vanilla fences and pressure plate right?

Yes. Vanilla wood is typically oak.

I love this pack! Was wondering about vanilla oak and Tfc oak textures though, is there a reason you can't just use the same texture?

Also, could you please include the villager zombies in the next update? Their strikingly green color clashes severely with the regular zombies.

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I would say we're kind of going in the opposite direction of realistic. We're doing something similar to this, http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/game-programming/polygon-map-generation/ but keeping it simple and using hexagons instead of full out polygons. You could say that some aspects, like rivers, are going to be handled a bit more realistically, but overall the map definitely won't really look like something you'd find in reality.

I am very excited that the terrain generation is taking this route! I have been following bioxx's tfc2 github and have been watching carefully the way he has been approaching this problem and each update he adds I smile a bit more. I do hope though (as I have seen no sign of it yet) that he takes part of my huge terrain gen suggestion and applies it. The part I am talking about specifically is in reference to rock layers becoming more noisy as the surface height rises. That should be realitivly simple to achieve and it would mimic tectonic shifting without all that messy background number crunching :)Thanks for the link to that page kitty. It is a fun tool to play around with!

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Well soodlenoodle I am happy to see that you have quite the skill in building feel free to bring that skill to the Ursine Nation

So what mod is the earthquakes part of? I know its not the weather one as they started before i installed that mod. Also how long do they last?

I have actually been making some major revisions to this pack and plan on posting an updated config as well as changing some of the mods listed. The earthquakes were one reason for this as they always happened around me and far to often. Enviro mine was the culprit.

And on another note, I died yesterday a number of times (as you probably saw ), but on no occasion did I find my "corpse".I have a mapping mod that sets a waypoint on death so I'm sure I got to the place it *should* have been...On one occasion I was right next to spawn (I didn't *quite* make it to the "safe house") and even then after only about 30 seconds, all of my stuff was gone. Is there some setting on the server that needs tweaking, or is it simply lag on my end?

The few times this happened to me it was due to lag on my end so I suspect the same is true for you a well

oh and balth had mentioned a new map to use other than reis its called voxelmaps that allows all the members to see each other and also see the findings they have made to help make this even more of a community!

It is an exceptionally light mod and uses an api called liteloader which is also tiny and easy on the processor.Speaking of the minimap, I am compiling one at the moment using that mod so we can all take advantage of what's around us