Minetest_game: Thicker pine needles texture

[paramat]

The current one looks too transparent with fancy or glasslike leaves. Also, it's not great.

[paramat]

From the 'snow' mod:

^ Fancy (allfaces)

^ Simple (glasslike)

I like it, it just needs some work to make it display correctly when opaque.

[paramat]

^ Opaque
Created by making a darker version of the texture and layering this behind the normal texture to colour the gaps.

If liked can make a PR.

[XenonLab-Studio]

@paramat I really like this new aspect, it makes the trees much more "voxel style" as I like it. I find it a nice aesthetic solution because one of the fundamental aspects of MTG is vegetation.

It would be nice to see these changes even in all the trees of the vanilla (MTG). I'm very happy with this, maybe you can improve some aesthetic aspects like the jungletrees (ugly trees).

Paramat thanks for your good work, finally the 0.5.0 will bring Minetest to take the big step that many years have been waiting for.

[Ezhh]

Okay, I much prefer this texture and it looks like it will definitely handle the issue.

[paramat]

Will make a PR.

[TumeniNodes]

@paramat , nice job, it looks good

[paramat]

2080 merged.

[JurajVajda]

lol this is the exact same texture minetest had in version 1 :) ..still like it though

[paramat]

LOL i didn't know that.

[JurajVajda]

yeah, just coincidentally working on reviving an old Christmas tree from Splizard/LazyJ snow mod (when there was no snow in Minetest i guess at that time) and saved some time with updating the needles texture to the latest MTGame texture :)

https://github.com/LazyJ/snow/blob/master/textures/snow_needles_decorated.png

_left new texture, right 5 years old texture_