No More Trees 1.2, 1.2a & Burnt Trees Addon 1.0 for 1.003 & 0.808

[Talak]

No More Trees 1.2, 1.2a & Burnt Trees Addon 1.0 for 1.003

*Updated 25th October 2008*

There are two versions -
No More Trees 1.2 will work with M&B 1.003.
No More Trees 1.2a is for M&B 0.808, for older mods such as The Last Days etc.

Features (No More Trees):
- Removes all leaves from trees; trunks and branches remain
- Removes all bushes
- World Map forests remain

- Should provide framerate boost on older PCs.

Notes:
-Incompatible with any mods that replace the native materials.brf.
-As per the included readme.txt, make sure to place "load_mod_resource = talak_materials" near the very top of the load_resource lines in module.ini, or you'll get untextured meshes.


Features (Burnt Trees Addon):
Makes all branches and trunks look like they've been burnt.  I may have missed some, please let me know.

Please leave feedback and error reports.

No More Trees 1.2a (2.5kb)

No More Trees 1.2 (8kb)

Burnt Trees Addon 1.0 (310kb)

No More Trees:


With Burnt Trees Addon:

[Damn]

what's the point of this mod? Improving fps?

[Talak]

Yes, it's for those people with less powerful PCs who have trouble with framerates in forests.  eg. this thread.

[M@ster-$]

Wow! Sinister look!

[Markus II]

Ooh, looks creepy.

Nice work Talak.

[Talak]

Thanks


At the moment it looks like the world map shares trees with the battle map, so I'm not sure if I can have world map trees with no battle map trees.  I'll look into it more later.

[FrisianDude]

Ho Chi Minh trail after a bit of Agent orange? 


Might've been usefull when I had a crappy computer, so thanks. 

[Katou]

You could increase your Pagefile which helps a lot with the heavily forested areas and the game in general.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2c00bY73JA

I know its not that clear but you should be able to understand. Let me know if it helps.
(Just trying to help anyone who would really want trees)

[grailknighthero]

Increasing the pagefile doesnt necessarily make things better and can make things worse if your computer tries to access the hd at the same time it is using the pagefile.  You should probably mention that for each mb of pagefile you use, 1 mb is stored on your hard drive and unavailable for other use, so if you have a low gb machine, this is not recommended.

[Katou]

Increasing the pagefile doesnt necessarily make things better and can make things worse if your computer tries to access the hd at the same time it is using the pagefile.  You should probably mention that for each mb of pagefile you use, 1 mb is stored on your hard drive and unavailable for other use, so if you have a low gb machine, this is not recommended.

Well with having 4-6GB as a max then you wont go wrong. I put that in the description.

[Talak]

World map trees have been restored, unfortunately this means replacing the materials.brf file, which I would rather not do if I can help it, as it would make it incompatible with other mods using this file.  The problem is that I can't find anything so far that uses the map_trees material, which is used for the world map.  The map_tree_meshes.brf file does not use this material.
No download yet, I'm still checking for alternatives.

Edit:  1.0 released on the Repository.

[Mizari]

Good work on the mod

[Sunhawken]

Just what i needed darn thick forest.
I have  to do 85% of the fighting!

[killkhergit]

I'm making a LOD-pack for the scenery. And as you're now doing tree modeling, I'm asking a few questions here:

- (biggest problem with a few trees) when I decide to go and make the branches simpler I first flatten a branch (from "(" to "I", a side of a branch on snowy_tree_a), then I want to remove the middle -not used- vertex. But it won't let me do that. Instead of removing a vertex or a line anywhere the whole tree model dissapears. I had this problem with: snowy_tree_a and some "aspen_tree" models

- Are tree_e_meshes and tree_meshes being used anymore? The trees seem to have vanished since 0.890...

[D'Sparil]

Im still using the first version or 0.955. I replaced all the textures with yours, except for trees.dds. This way some trees remain both on the battlefield and map, but it still gets rid of bushes and lesser trees. The performace increase is great, thanks again.