Low poly pine tree, built to your size
Stacked cones on a straight trunk. The cheapest tree that still looks like a tree. As proposed, the pine tree is 132 triangles at 9.5 m, with foliage as stacked cones. You can take it from 7 to 12 m, and every other control stays within what a pine tree can be.
If you only build one tree, it'll probably be this one. A pine made of stacked cones still looks like a pine at a couple hundred triangles, and you can put hundreds of them on a hillside without worrying about the budget. It fits temperate and boreal forests, mountain passes, a lake with a cabin, a logging camp. For a snow level, push both greens toward gray and the cones look frosted.
The two settings that change its character most are the cone count and how much each cone shrinks toward the top. A few cones with a strong shrink give you a young plantation tree. More cones with less shrink give you an older tree that has kept its lower branches. Raise the point where the boughs start if you want a forest pine with a bare lower trunk. It's worth selecting the dead and felled versions at export, because a forest with no fallen trunks tends to look planted.
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 pine tree?
- 132 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 7 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.