I've been looking around for a mod that adds footprints when you (and maybe mobs?) walk through certain terrains (grass, dirt, snow, sand, soul sand, etc). The closest thing I've been able to find is a mod from 1.0.0.

I understand that this mod is only supposed to be for foliage, but since the "rising souls" effect isn't strictly foliage-related, I'm hoping that this isn't too farfetched of a request. I'm not sure how difficult or CPU/GPU-intensive it'd be, but apparently there's an unused footprint "particle" already in the vanilla textures, so at least there's that.

Here's the 1.0.0 mod for reference, since it does almost exactly what I imagined: http://goo.gl/AGk6Ca

This is a really cool idea, but for this to work wouldnt it need to become server side as well. Even so I REALLY want this feature.

Why would it also need to be server-side? I don't know much about rendering, but the mod already uses particle effects solely client-side, doesn't it? Even then, it could just be an effect that only kicks in if it's installed on both client and server.

Wow, this suggestion has been open for a long time.

Seems out of scope for this mod, and since it is already a feature of Dynamic Surroundings is it worth the effort?

Better Grass and Leaves, the predecessor to this mod, had this feature. So I think there is a chance that it will be added. I think it would be a good addition.

this is an old issue. dynamic surroundings im sure wasn't around in 2015, and he probably gave up on it a month or two after that. If he didn't give up, then my guess is he eventually he found dynamic surroundings.