Low poly redwood tree, built to your size
A red column with a narrow crown high up. The tallest tree here. As proposed, the redwood tree is 196 triangles at 32.0 m, with foliage as stacked cones. You can take it from 24 to 40 m, and every other control stays within what a redwood tree can be.
Nothing else in the builder gets as tall as the redwood. It's a red column with a narrow crown far overhead, and most of the trunk is bare. Use it for a Californian forest floor, a sacred grove, an elven forest, or any scene where the player should feel small. You don't need many. A handful of redwoods with some fog between them can fill a whole level.
Nearly everything depends on the trunk. Keep the taper gentle, don't exaggerate the diameter, and raise the first bough as high as the range allows so the column stays bare. The crown is a few narrow cones and doesn't cost much. That's convenient, because players mostly see a redwood from the ground, where the trunk fills the screen. The felled version is long enough to bridge a ravine, and the stump is wide enough to stand on. Either one also gives players a sense of scale.
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.
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Questions
- How many triangles is the redwood tree?
- 196 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 24 and 40 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.