I've already gone through a number of tutorials on foliage from as many sites as you can count (as long as you can count up to no more than 10 or 12....), 80 Level included. Unfortunately, they were all about SpeedTree, obsolete methods, third choice free-wares, still rendering polycount budgets, awfully looking trees…
Yeah, most probably I could've spared this model a few bends, especially close to the extremities and even more for the higher branches. It takes around 5k tris, but I think it could've worked just as well with 4-4.5k. I kind of followed your advice to not care too much about the polycount and just go for accuracy. The…
I feel like you're shooting down everyone's help and suggestions, again. You don't need a tutorial that shows you exactly how to do the exact thing you need. Techniques apply to all things; learn the technique, learn how to tweak it, and make it work for you and your needs. Experiment. I happen to know 100% that there are…