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Quote from Wolf1557

For some reason when I use jolicraft resource pack I get white grass, In other area's it's green, Is this a bug?

Yep, bug. Biome colors are not applied to the grass.

What version of Forge are you using? Fast or Fancy graphics? What is your Smooth Lighting setting? Does this happen with any resource pack, and work fine without packs?

Quote from GabrielSv

Is it self dependant?
No forge?
Did I miss it?

Forge is required. The topic is tagged as such, but I should have made it more obvious in the OP.

Quote from IHaTeD2

Thanks for continuing it (kinda).
Are you planning on adding the other visual features and options?

You could also ask him for permission to officially continue the mod btw:

I checked out the licence too, mainly because of the textures. No luck there, I can't use them without explicit permission, and Poersch seems well and truly disappeared.

If by "officially continue" you mean taking BG&L and just straight up porting it to 1.7.2, I have no desire to do that at all (would have been way more work than rewriting from scratch). Better Foliage is more like a spiritual successor, that walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, but is actually... well, a completely new duck altogether .

As for the plans.

I will implement: cactus, mycelium, coral.
I will probably implement: falling leaf particles, short grass on ledges.
I won't implement: footprints, blood particles, swaying grass, reeds.

I don't like the reeds, because I think something that is 2 blocks high should not be a ghost, that's confusing. Rendering a bit of green stubble on grass blocks is one thing, but reeds should be a true block, with worldgen and everything.

I find swaying grass not to be worth the effort. Plus, a good shaderpack with GLSL shader mod does it a whole lot better. (yes, I know, but there are shaderpacks which are very easy on the GPU)

Stuff like footprints, blood, etc. don't have much to do with leaves, that should go to its own mod. The falling leaf particles however I like a lot, that's on the TODO list.

Quote from g_BonE

Too bad, this crashes like so:
[...]
1.7.2 forge 10.12.2.1121

I thought that would never happen. Guess I was wrong. Probably you have a block that derives from vanilla leaves, but uses neither rendertype 0 (standard block) nor its own renderer; probably one of the built-ins like vines, crops, cactus or whatever.

I'll take a look into it. Could you post your mod list in the meantime? I wonder where it comes from.

Quote from IHaTeD2

What's with the lily pads then? Wasn't there randomly flowers on top of some of and roots under them to make them a bit more interesting?

Oh yeah, lilypads. Totally forgot about those. Will do.

Quote from TheAceMinecraft

I thought with swaying grass, you meant that when you walked in plants, they kinda swayed to the side like they did in BG&L

Well, both. The get-out-of-your-way swaying in BG&L annoyed me for some reason. On the other hand, the kind of constant wind-swaying shaders often do is cool.

Quote from Wolf1557

I'm using forge 10.12.2.1130, I'm also using fancy graphics and max smooth lighting, And it doesn't do it for the default resource pack.

I tried it and didn't get the white grass. There was however some slight color mismatch in certain biomes, and Natura redwood leaves (the crazy big one) were white, but only in the plains biome. More poking around to do.

Quote from Princess_Garnet

I think I read that Forge is coming for 1.7.10 soon after it releases. Will this be updated if that happens?

Sure. I don't think too much has changed regarding rendering.

Quote from InkDragon

any plans to also take on better signs?

Maybe sometime, but certainly not for a while. Day job, summertime, personal life... lots of stuff besides modding to drain my time. TBH, I almost didn't make this one. But then I decided living in a world without BG&L was UNACCEPTABLE!!!

Quote from deyahruhd

RainWarrior's Truss Mod modifies code that this mod relies on. If I make Truss Mod load before this one, I get a crash which suggests what code it modifies:
(...)
Obviously you'll have to change something so they can co-operate.

If you make it load before? Can you change the order?

Anyway, yes, I'll make it compatible. I'm not sure I can make the extra leaves render while moving though. At least not without manipulating Truss Mod bytecode, and that makes me feel unclean.

New version available. Bugfix only: it should solve the crash experienced by @g_BonE, and makes things more compatible with mods that also override block rendering.

Truss Mod works fine now, in fact it also shows extra leaves while moving without any further action on my part (not that anyone would want to move leaves with it, but still )

@Wolf1557:
The white grass problem is caused by Jolicraft (or the other texture packs you tried).

With a few exceptions, most plant textures in Minecraft are actually colorless (gray), and they are rendered with a color overlay depending on the biome. Biome colors also come from a texture, and the one in Jolicraft shows a lot of white patches. Probably at temperature and humidity combinations that the author has deemed impossible (but possible after all with biome mods).
I could easily get lots of white foliage using Alternate Terrain Generation, which uses independent and smoothly changing temperature/humidity maps.
No issues using the Faithful32 pack.

Long story short: the resource pack author has to fix this.

Quote from Gaeniel

You, sir, are awesome. I was waiting for something like that for ages.But a question, will this work with ressource packs made for BG&L ? Or will it use it's own default textures ?

EDIT: I had some time to test it myself right now, but... see for yourself:

Textures made for BG&L are not supported, but also unneeded. BF will make its own round leaf textures using the block leaf textures. It only uses transparency masks for the leaves (preferably in 2x the size of the block texture); those can of course be provided by resource packs.

But those leaves with writing on them... they confuse me. I can just about make out "optifine" in the middle, so I tried it out. I'm having no issues with any combination of Optifine / GLSL shaders.

What resource pack are you using BTW? Looks kind of nice.