yay polycount: http://wiki.polycount.com/CategoryEnvironmentFoliage 3dmotive has a good tut on foliage creation speedtree is a program good for that and theres plugins for max etc. those kinds of things should be on the wiki if i remember correctly im actually curious on finding out about any good bark texturing/shader…
Bah. Creating tree it self is suprisingly easy. It's some spilnes tosed around and bended in random directions. The tricky part is to create good looking branches textures, leaf clusters and so on. This is biggest time sink to get them right. And there are few options: 1. Take camera, go to forest, cut some branches of…