Low poly mesquite tree, built to your size
Low desert scrub, forking near the ground under a flat umbrella. As proposed, the mesquite tree is 639 triangles at 4.0 m, with foliage as one wrapped shell. You can take it from 3 to 5 m, and every other control stays within what a mesquite tree can be.
Mesquite is low desert scrub. The trunk forks near the ground under a flat umbrella of thin foliage. It belongs in the Sonoran and Chihuahuan deserts, on a ranch, along the border, in a western, or in a dry wash where cattle stand in the shade at noon. It's a short tree, so it usually sits in the middle distance and lets the ground color do most of the work.
To get the shape, start the boughs low, give them a wide angle, and keep the foliage shell flat. Push the gnarl up, because you won't find a straight mesquite in the wild. The greens are dusty and gray, and the bark is dark. Since the tree is small and cheap, it's a good one to scatter across a desert level to fill space. Select the dead version too. A twisted gray mesquite skeleton is about as common in a real desert as a live tree.
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
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Questions
- How many triangles is the mesquite tree?
- 639 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 3 and 5 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.