Low poly spruce tree, built to your size
A narrower, denser pine. As proposed, the spruce tree is 156 triangles at 12.0 m, with foliage as stacked cones. You can take it from 9 to 15 m, and every other control stays within what a spruce tree can be.
A spruce is narrower and denser than a pine, and that difference survives at low poly. It has more cones, set closer together, on a straighter trunk, and the foliage runs dark all the way to the ground. Use it for northern forests, alpine slopes and winter levels. It also holds snow better than the other conifers, because the tiers give you flat places to put it. Planted in rows, spruces make a solid dark wall, which is handy for hiding the edge of a map.
Keep the trunk straight and the lean small. Once a spruce curves it stops looking like one. For a wide skirt, raise the cone count and lower the shrink. For a spire, do the opposite. The default green is dark, so set the second green lighter to pick out the tips. At LOD2 the tree becomes a single wrapped hull, which works well here because a distant spruce is a simple cone shape anyway.
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 spruce tree?
- 156 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 9 and 15 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.