[SOLVED] Foliage LOD

[Rob]

I was wondering why the Unigine team used grass billboards for the distant trees and not just created a plane mesh with a billboard texture on it

Is this mainly done to add variation in the distant trees as the grass texture has the option for multiple rows for textures?

[demostenes]

I was wondering why the Unigine team used grass billboards for the distant trees and not just created a plane mesh with a billboard texture on it

Is this mainly done to add variation in the distant trees as the grass texture has the option for multiple rows for textures?

 

Probably because grass rendering is highly optimizied, so why not to use it for tres too?

[manguste]

Yes, Demostenes is right. Grass can be rendered in one DIP, while separate objects cannot be instanced this efficiently.

[Rob]

Oke thanks for the answers!