questions about trees in general

Hi all

I know many of you played with treessiçnce several years.
Vegetation is a great way of adding 'life' in a scene.
It seems there's no 'trees system comparison' in this forum :/

I just make a call to all those who did some tests and tries about trees performance impact.

My question is simple:
Take the old willow ( from the legacy assets ) just as mesh and textures. What would be the best way to integrate it in a scene, so that say.... 1K trees have le least impact on rendering speed ?
I just need AO trees.

I know this question is not accurate enough but as a first step i just need an 'idea'.

Terrain trees ?
tree creator ?
speedtree ?
my very own tree-maker ?

Any advice is greatly appreciated

happy Unitying !

 

A single mesh with a single material (GPU instanced) and has some LOD's should be able to handle 1000 trees no problem. I have a WebGL demo with 3000 (I think) simple Unity trees that runs at 60fps, though they're not on the screen at the same time.

I think Unity's tree system will create an unoptimised model with multiple materials. Just make sure you make the materials GPU instanced.