Fix the Foliage

[teal oracle]

There are a few issues with the current foliage. Here are the ones I'd like to bring up:

1. The swaying animation. When a bush or tree sways in the wind, the animation of the leaves moving is very...janky to say the least. This animation causes the leaves on many of the trees to look like colored blobs rather than actual leaves.

2. Roots. Currently, none of the trees have roots coming out of the bottom. This causes the bottom portion of the trees to look like sticks rather than actual trees.

3. Leaf depth. I don't know how you guys did this on a technical level, but the leaves on the trees in the beta look like they have some sort of 3D depth (they probably arent 3D models, but they certainly look like it). However, in the full game, the leaves are very obviously textures. It could be that because the shape of the trees changes from beta to full game, the fact that they are textures is much more obvious. However, if you guys are able to somehow bring leaf depth back, the trees would look LEAGUES better.

I unfortunately do not have any screen recording software, so I cannot showcase what I was talking about in point 1. If someone has a video, please send it - it would be greatly appreciated! With that being said, I do fortunately have screenshot comparisons between trees in the beta and trees in the full game, so here they are:

here's two other image comparisons:

When I return home later today, I will share screenshots of what I was talking about with point 2 (assuming someone doesn't do it for me)

[teal oracle]

(And for context, I'm not saying in point 3 that they should bring back the beta trees, I'm just saying they should try to bring back the depth that the leaves on the beta trees had)

[teal oracle]

I'd also like to mention that the part about the leaves looking like colored blobs is definitely a lot more prevalent when looking at the trees from far away, but up close the leaves still look a bit rough, even ignoring the swaying animation

[teal oracle]

Here's screenshots of the bottom section of the main four trees (ash, maple, oak, and spruce) to show what I mean:

[twin horizon]

Hn2 alpha 2 had WAAY better foliage

[arctic zephyr]

Me personally, I think the trees are buitiful as they are, but whatever.

[simple herald]

Isnt that same foliage from Hello Guest and Alpha 1 and 1.5?

[simple herald]

They look awful especially at the ground where they dont have any roots