easiest way is to buy tree magik lol. or ask in user requests, ive made a few trees for people.

ok guys... but i kind of feel like doing it myself... ( i just dont know how long I will fell like this though)
anyway
im doing trees like this now:
MDL trunks and Leaves as Sprites.

the average number of Faces of my trunks are 96 faces.
Is it too much? there will be some at the same time in the same view.

What count of trunks?
If #<10 all would be fine.

humm.. i think it would be between 15/25.
is it too bad?

is there any chart that i could look at to see this limitations based on pc configurations?

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I played around with about 300 trees generated out of a trunk, a branch and leaves. -> I had about 12000 models in my scene with all together about 200k faces...
It run with about 25fps on my system

As long as you are a bit carefull especially with the number of models, there shouldn´t be a big problem

My game CAN´t run on 25 FPS though..
Its has to be between 60 / 50... cause its an action game.

what kind of game were you running in 25fps? strategy? RTS?

An where is your problem? o.O

well its not actually a problem.
the intention of this post was to gather information of the best way to do a tree model, and people came up with some ideas,

then i built a tree trunk that has 96 faces, and at runtime will be ~15 of this trees visible at same time. I havent done it yet but now the question changed to will it be a problem?
15(models)*96(faces each) of a tree model at the same time and still render it between 50/60fps.(I cant test it right now but still want the main the original idea of the post which is to gather information about tree models/rendering)

15*96 = 1440 faces

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I played around with about 300 trees generated out of a trunk, a branch and leaves. -> I had about 12000 models in my scene with all together about 200k faces...
It run with about 25fps on my system

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200000/300 = 666,66666... faces per tree splited into about 40 models per tree.

But the main point is: 1440 < 200000
I had 200000 faces running with about 25fps, now calculate how fast it will run for you with 1440 faces