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What did you do?
Enable tree animations in graphic settings. Then plant tree seeds via an Agricultural Tower on Nauvis or Gleba and observe growing trees.


What happened?
The growing trees have a very fast and unnatural animation speed. Once they are fully grown their animation speed goes back to normal.


What did you expect to happen instead? It might be obvious to you, but do it anyway!
I expect to see the trees have consistent animation speed when they are growing just like when they are fully grown.


Does it happen always, once, or sometimes?
It happens consistently.

Please find my log file attached and also two save files showcasing the bug. One on Nauvis, and one on Gleba. It is distracting to have a tree farm and the shimmering caused by this fast animation bug so I am hoping it is an easy fix!

Thanks for the report however I don't believe we will be doing anything about this. The system that makes trees animate combined with how trees grow means you get this effect. Trees grow by scaling the sprite up slowly as it grows - this causes the noise logic for tree animations to near constantly have different pixels to fake-animate and you get what you see.

Thank you for the reply. I understand.

Is it possible to disable the tree animation while they are growing? Then enable it again when they are fully grown?

I believe that is a good compromise to a solution.