@Realextalk - A great place to start might be looking at the Speedtree for Unity toolset, they have good beginner tutorials on the Speedtree Youtube page https://www.youtube.com/user/SpeedTreeMiddleware
At least with Speedtree you are able to open an example tree, and see the raw meshes and textures that went into its creation, doing some backwards engineering. To me thats way easier to learn what components are necessary, if not easier than starting from an empty scene and stumbling through older methods. Speedtree…
I would not recomend speedtree if he doesnt know how are these even made. Let him make some vegetation to understand it and then he can subscribe on speedtree. In vegetation you generally model the branches, and the leaves are 1plane each with maybe a few subdivisions (basically called cards) that uses a leaf picture and…
What software do you currently use? Asking what DCC to learn for real-time vegatation creation specifically is like asking what brand of guitar to get to learn Stairway to Heaven....... Or are you asking about a specialist software like Speedtree? Try to be a bit more helpful in posting threads like this. Otherwise we…