How many triangles is the Italian cypress tree?

610 as proposed. The complexity slider takes it down to a few hundred or up for a hero tree, and the export adds LOD1 and LOD2.

Can I change the height?

Yes, between 6 and 12 m, and the trunk's diameter, taper and lean with it.

Yes. There's no account, no watermark and no limit on downloads.

Can I use it in a commercial game?

Everything you build here is yours. Use it in any project, commercial or not, with no attribution required.

Low poly Italian cypress tree, built to your size

A low poly Italian cypress tree made with PolyMason — 610 triangles at 9.0 m, as PolyMason proposes it

Build this Italian cypress

Pencil-thin, a tenth as wide as it is tall, and green from the ground up. As proposed, the Italian cypress tree is 610 triangles at 9.0 m, with foliage as one wrapped shell. You can take it from 6 to 12 m, and every other control stays within what an Italian cypress tree can be.

You can't see the trunk on an Italian cypress. The tree is about a tenth as wide as it is tall and green from the ground up, so at low poly it's very nearly a single shape and costs almost nothing. It belongs in Tuscany, around a Mediterranean villa, in a cemetery, along a Roman road, or on a Greek island. A row of them works as a fence, and a pair will mark a gate.

There isn't much to adjust. Set the height and the width, then pick the two greens, with the lighter one for the sunlit side. The single wrapped shell is already close to what LOD2 would produce, so the lower levels of detail are cheap and you may not need billboards at all. A few degrees of lean makes it look windswept. For formal planting, keep it perfectly straight. The sapling version is worth a look too, because a young cypress is a small, flame-shaped shrub that's useful in garden scenes.

What you can change

Trunk: height, diameter, taper, sides, lean, curve and gnarl, with bark from the species' colors or any color you pick.
Boughs: count, rings or spiral, where they leave the trunk, angle, length, thickness, curve, and twigs.
Foliage: style, size, spread, complexity (your triangle budget) and two greens.
Export: LOD1 and LOD2, sapling and young versions, dead, stump, felled, logs and billboards.

The export is a zip with OBJ, STL and 3MF. The OBJ uses the shared palette texture and has flat normals in the file. Models are in meters and stand at the origin, and the zip includes whichever levels of detail and other versions you select. The trees page covers the formats, and the OBJ guide covers importing.

Other species

Pine Spruce Douglas fir Larch Cedar of Lebanon Italian cypress Redwood Silver birch Aspen Lombardy poplar Cottonwood Oak Maple Beech Elm Cherry Willow Eucalyptus Mesquite Acacia Juniper Olive Joshua tree Baobab

Read before you import

Flat shading in Unity for low poly models The OBJ file format, explained for game engines LODs and billboards for low poly models Free low poly assets for Godot How to make low poly trees for games

Other things to build

Trees Rocks

Questions

How many triangles is the Italian cypress tree?: 610 as proposed. The complexity slider takes it down to a few hundred or up for a hero tree, and the export adds LOD1 and LOD2.
Can I change the height?: Yes, between 6 and 12 m, and the trunk's diameter, taper and lean with it.
Is it free?: Yes. There's no account, no watermark and no limit on downloads.
Can I use it in a commercial game?: Everything you build here is yours. Use it in any project, commercial or not, with no attribution required.