A little clarification... Just for thought -)


First we check the alpha channel of the texture, then we calculate the distance to the foliage. This avoids unnecessary calculations for fragments that will be discarded anyway.


If the transparency does not pass the threshold, we discard the fragment before additional calculations...

Get Loaded mesh doesn't exist errors often with this enabled. haven't been able to find a workaround

fixed the broken tree in Vain

Okran's Pride looks so so much better with this

Not sure how this mod will affect my now potato of a gaming laptop but I just wanted to up-vote, comment, and favorite for later use to help keep your morale up in this new year. Cheers Mate.

Seems to be causing an ugly issue where a certain type of tree which is common all over vain becomes partially see through. Seems to happen on a few random trees throughout the map as well.

Tested on vanilla kenshi with this as the only mod.

(also had issues with clipping on shadows that seem to be caused by imcompatibility with shadiness, still testing)

Sweet

Not sure why but i get these type errors after some time:
{0x000043dc} 2023-01-14 14:32:59 [error]: Loaded mesh doesn't exist: distant_155.mesh
{0x000043dc} 2023-01-14 14:33:04 [error]: Loaded mesh doesn't exist: distant_94.mesh

Gonna copy this mod for my own, just in case this gets deleted, sorry not sorry

thicc yes yes

A must have mod, thank you.

@Hobo Jack
That's a good idea. I somehow haven't thought about giving the same treatment to the grass.

I might have to look into that as a companion to this mod.

Thanks.

Honestly it's a great mod, aliasing for grass and trees were just annoying. Now with no grass and your mod, I'm feel immerse. Thanks buddy.

Seems like people are almost more interested in my fox mod than this foliage mod...

Bring forth the fox mod

@Chkn10Ds
The foxes are from my personable race mod. I didn't see a reason to edit them or of the screenshots.

what's up with the foxes dud

I may or may not have downloaded this because I saw the word "Thicc".....

My apolagies it seems your correct. Tried mod again and no issues. The clipping issue just never saw before. Also this mod does seem to give me a slight FPS increase in certain scenes

@Redarmy
If you indeed found something I'd like be impressed. The files changed have no relation to the navigation or pathfinding aside from being from the same game. This is a shader mod as per description. It changes rendering a tiny bit, it's purely cosmetic.

I noticed it with the mod on then uninstalled and issue didnt happen. But fair enough i will try again maybe it was just a coincidence in timing I had not seen that issue before

@Redarmy
This mod will not do that at all. That is just a known bug in Kenshi.

Like the mod unfortunately,wether a mod conflict or not,my characters are clipping through(understatement) running rite through terrain and rocks in the envoirnment. Seems to affect their pathfinding in this regard too.

I understand that kenshi world is supposed to be mostly arid or contaminated, but if all trees can't support leaves, then they would die and there should be only cactus around... I think this mod is brilliant and makes sense to have foliage at least on some types of trees. And the world looks so beautiful!! Thanks for making this!

@GoingBatty
Yeah I made fox mod.
I haven't made it public since its mostly just a personal thing and it's not finished it yet.

Love the trees! And did you make the fox race in the screenshots? I need Foxies.

Hey creator brother, not sure i will use it (since i love sore dried kenshi trees ambiance), but you really did some awesome work. Im keeping the mod nearby in case i feel the need of a fresher world. Be proud and keep going, this is good content, those who come here to dislike are just like the cannibals from the game if you feel me ... Cheers

still waiting Lo-Fi games add LOD to the game

@endgunner
I think you misunderstand what this mod actually does because kindrad can't right a description to save his life.

This doesn't add more foliage, it doesn't edit foliage in any way. What it does is change how foliage is rendered. This change allows foliage to be rendered farther away, which seems to actually slightly improve fps or at least make it more stable.

TLDR it changes how the game renders certain layers of the game world. this makes those textures load much earlier and with less resource intensiveness

I like Kenshi`s dieing world vibe, and dead trees. So im not subbing. But this does look pretty neat.

Well, I've had the pleasure now of running around in a working version of my mod and seeing places other than the Great Desert. Wow. Just wow. Well bloody done!

@silentprotagonistsays
Thanks for not remaining so silent. Comments like this make the work worthwhile.

The screenshots are impressive enough, but I almost couldn't believe my eyes when I first saw the improvement in-game. I'm having fun just exploring and looking at the scenery like I'm playing Kenshi for the first time again.

Fixed the glowy shimmers on trees at night for real this time. Or should be fixed. If anyone else finds a tree that is looking funny please let me know...

I am aware certain foliage shimmers at night. Thought I fixed it but it cropped up elsewhere. I know how to fix it and should have that fix out by tomorrow...

Mmm! Kindrads mods are all good :)

@Atlas 哈哈哈 you too, so surprise to see you here. I'm looking for some good mods haha

啊，你吓了我一跳! 不知道从哪里冒出来的! XD

Kenshi world is really lack of leaves, so thank you for this mod, like it XD

bruh. you really called it "thicc foliage". Lmfao.

Now I see it. Well done. :-)

This looks interesting