Hi,
Nice trees Mark! Here's my wip. There are 22500 trees in this scene www.xs4all.nl/~joly/temp/forest.jpg It's nothing much yet, just experimenting. I chose a completely different approach to the tree. It has no individual leaves but rather a texture of complete twigs with leaves on a polygon. After creating the tree I exported it as obj to minimize the number of faces in Polytrans. This way I got a tree containing about 3000 triangles. This is much easier to handle, doesn't require so much memory. Of course it's not as nice as real twigs, but the low memory usage has some obvious advantages. The tree I've been working on is not yet good enough, when I think it's worth sharing I'll post it. I have to find out what shape is best for the leaf object. It should not be a simple square polygon but it should mimic the bunch of twigs with the smallest amount of polygons possible. That should hide the cardboard effect a bit. Arjo.
