Hi Arjo, Yes, the new Plant tool is really addictive, I spent whole evenings fiddling with parameters! Has to be one of the most advanced plant generating tools around. They are memory-hungry but by careful tuning I managed to generate and render pretty complex trees on a 2.5 GB 32bit system. It's one reason to go for 64bit and >8 GB ram, though.
Good luck, looking forward to see some of your results, -Mark Hi, Now that the trees got leaves again I'm planning to create a few trees with the plant tool. I also tried the new render as instance feature of course. This really is a breath taking feature. I created a lowpoly tree (little more than 3K polygons) for export reasons. I put 22500 trees on a surface. This means I used about 85 million polygons. They render without any problem. Arjo.
