@Leo No, the scaling function it uses doesn't work in multiplayer and there's no performance-friendly alternative.

does this work for everyone if i load it on my dedicated server?

Rural areas commonly have foliage blocking roads, Andrew! :)

yes?

Andrew...

it looks good but it blocks roads so its mostly unusable...

okay i see, i'm creating a mission on the map wild mountains livonia and i'm lokking for way add forest around the aera already created to give the map more size and relief so that playrs is a larger territory to explore in addition combined with this mod will give this map a side very scien fiction.

@alexjackson57 Hello, I'm not aware of another mod that does this, but that *was* a planned feature of this mod earlier in development. The idea was scrapped due to performance concerns, however, as Arma really isn't a fan of generating a large swath of simple objects as would be necessary to generate a forest.

The engine simply has a much easier time optimizing trees and such when they're baked in the terrain itself rather than when they're treated as separate objects.

Hello, is there a mod or module for generating entire forests?

@Zac Hello. I am not aware of anyone else having such an issue, so even if it is caused by this mod, it is likely due to some sort of conflict of which I am unable to diagnose.

I would turn all of your mods off except for this one and then check if the problem persists. If it does, try uninstalling and reinstalling this mod. If the problem still sticks around, I can look further into it.

Hello, I have an issue, please help me. I'm pretty sure its done by this mod. On Tanoa, the medium ficus trees are halfway into the ground, and about 2 times bigger (2 times bigger hitbox too) and even though I set the trees and the grass scale to 1, nothing happens, is there a way to fix this?

to clear up, that only happens on some/certain maps in certain areas. this mod kicks ass for immersion. thanks again

appreciate the response!! thanks!

@J-Money You'd be correct -- unfortunately, that's an unfixable bug due to game engine limitations (the only way to avoid it is to replace the trees with simple objects, which kills game performance). In order to fix it, you just need to go into this addon's settings and turn down the scaling a little bit until the tree is properly in the ground again.

I'm not positive, but im 80% sure this mod causes this:
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/2274943441922909309/8060C1E9EBFEE82DB4E0E090FB635125DA83A6A4/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

Any ideas or experience with it? It could be a conflict im not aware of.

@Bairro I'm glad to hear that, thank you for the kind words!

Can't play without it. Great job! Thanks.

i love lustify

Thank you, I'm glad you're enjoying it!

This mod is really amazing man. i don't have the best PC so I do think i notice the performance slightly, but got dayum sure makes any maps foilage look really really good.

Uzbin farmlands are immersive as hell.

thank u!

@Sigma You can always turn the scaling down below 1!

is there something for the opposite? Defoliate? Environmental deflowering?

It felt a bit weird that this mod, unlike my other mods, never actually got a proper Github release. It does now!

The Github link is now available in the description for anyone who feels like reverse-engineering, modifying, or contributing to this mod.

Thank you for your help my friend, if you manage to find another solution please keep me updated as I'd love to fix the floating trees for my players XD

@Dunkersplay Unfortunately I must say there's not much that can be done in this case other than just not scaling the trees. While it is possible to move the trees so they aren't floating, it requires hiding the original trees and moving a copy of them, which destroys game performance when applied to a large number of trees.

I scaled some trees up on the map Maksniemi from their default to the default of lushify (1.5). Ever since I've had floating trees galore.

Tried merging the mission files, but alas; They are permanently floating.

@Dunkersplay Hello! I'm not sure what specially is causing them to float as I'm not sure what your settings are, but the most common cause of floating is from making the trees too small.

When the trees are scaled down too much, they do not stay on the ground properly due to their center being offset. This is not fixable without performance impact, so the solution is just to not scale the trees down too much.

Let me know if you still need assistance!

How to fix floating trees my friend?

Wonderful! I'll have to try it out sometime when I'm playing arma again.

Hi Sysroot, got Lushify working perfectly with THE ASSAULT, it will be in the next update. Was hoping to get it out today, but ran out of time. It will be soon! Thanks for your help :)

No problem!

Thanks Sysroot, Thanks for your super fast reply. I've been pretty busy these last few days so I have not had a chance to check out your solution yet. But I'll be working on an update over the weekend. I'll let you know how it goes :)

Hi, I believe I've found how to do it. It seems you'll need to setVariable the module's "objectarea" property which is an array of the form [a, b, c, false, 0] where a and b are the lengths of the sides of the area rectangle, and c is the angle of the rectangle.

So, to go along with the example you've given, something like this should work for a 50x50 area with 0 rotation:

private _moduleGroup = createGroup sideLogic;
"Lushify_ModuleScale" createUnit [
getPosATL player,
_moduleGroup,
"this setVariable ['TreeScale',1.5,true]; this setVariable ['BushScale',1.5,true]; this setVariable ['objectarea',[50,50,0,false,0],true]; this setVariable ['BIS_fnc_initModules_disableAutoActivation', false, true];"
];

Thanks Systoot, no hurry, whenever you have time. I am hoping to make it easier to use Lushify with my mod: UKNoppo's The Assault:

https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2382110181

Hi uknoppo! Thank you for the kind words, I appreciate it. I will look into this issue for you (as I do not quite recall the limitations of the modules) and try to get back to you within 24 hours!

Hi Sysroot, great mod! Is there a way to spawn the module mid game with a script and also use a script to change the size of the module mid game? For spawning the module this is the best I have managed, but it does not quite work, I think part of the issue is that it does not define the size of the module.

private _moduleGroup = createGroup sideLogic;
"Lushify_ModuleScale" createUnit [
getPosATL player,
_moduleGroup,
"this setVariable ['TreeScale',1.5,true]; this setVariable ['BushScale',1.5,true]; this setVariable ['BIS_fnc_initModules_disableAutoActivation', false, true];"
];

damn, thank you!

Ohh okay TY

Unfortunately not. I had tried some different methods to get it working in MP, but the core function that this mod uses to rescale everything is incompatible with MP. This means that some sort of workaround is necessary for MP, and all of them sadly have significant performance impact that it doesn't seem possible to mitigate.

So, for that reason, it does not appear that this will work in MP in the near future, unless BI releases a more multiplayer-friendly way to scale objects.

Is it fixed for MP?

Do we know if this works on a dedicated server?

Yes, you could do that with the model replacement feature of this mod, though you'd need to figure out the paths to both models.

hmm is it possible to make a mod that replaces cup vegetation with livonia/altis? Since ArmA2 vegetation causes ai to shoot through it

I would think it wouldn't, seeing as how it appears the scaling method used by this mod does not work serverside. You're welcome to try, though.

Does this work on servers if the module is used rather than client side?

It should, and all of my testing seems to indicate that it does.

It's possible that AI are detecting you for reasons other than visual -- but if you're certain they're actually seeing you through the larger trees improperly, I'm afraid there's not much I can do about it due to the limits of terrain object scaling.

Does this mod block AI visual line of sight with the increased tree diameters? Seems the AI see things different from players.

Yes, absolutely.

can this be run client-side?

@GeezTree I'm currently looking into issues regarding dedicated servers. A fix will be coming soon.

@The Burger King Thank you!

@Raavolk Hello, unfortunately that is a known issue that I cannot do anything about currently. Terrain objects can not be repositioned, so the only way to fix their Z offset is to replace them with simple objects, which has a heavy performance impact. I'm looking into ways to get around this.