Hello, I'm still pretty new to Stardew. I started playing in December, and was unable to play for most of February. I don't know how to make mods. But I've figured out how to edit mods, specifically their images. I wanted Magica Trees by ERRORcauser for my game but didn't want to replace game files with the XNB files. So I unpacked them, got the images, edited the images to work for green rain, got a bit carried away and made the some of the trees rainbow and replaced a few of the Wittly colored trees of the Simple Foliage mod with my edits.
However this means I have to be careful to not lose my edits if I ever update Simple Foliage. It also means that I'm the only one that gets to use my edit. I would like to share my edit. Can anyone help me with making it it's own mod (ideally compatible with Simple Foliage)?
I'd also like to note that in order to make the twisting vines of the pine tree replacement work I had to make it so only one of the vines is intractable. The other has clipping because the game doesn't view it as an obstacle. I think it's cute that it can be on both sides of fences but it's tricky to cut it down. Additionally I preferred the Simple Foliage mushroom tree so I use that instead of the Magica version and I edited it to look like an upside-down strawberry.
My edits are here Magica Trees for Simple Foliage