Tired of 50 hour render times for nature scenes?
3D tree models are slow

Traditional tree models often have millions of polygons, and multiple complex materials, making them very slow to render. They also slow down the viewport and add to visual noise while working.

They also use a lot of memory

Another problem with having all of those polygons and textures is that they can add up and overload the memory limits of your GPU, resulting in having to render on the CPU, which is often 5 to 10x slower.

Use Alpha Trees to render 10x the no. of trees 10x as fast
Billboards are much faster

Alpha Trees uses flat tree cards to speed up rendering and lower memory usage. Each tree card only has 4 vertices, drastically increasing performance when compared to the millions usually found in 3D tree models.

Just as realistic as 3D trees

The tree cards use an advanced material that allows them to react to lighting and translucency.

This means that they can still look 3D, without needing the extra geometry.

Now with Scatter 5 integration
*only available in pro version

Extremely powerful

If you want even more scattering and distribution features, you can use the addon easily with the Scatter 5 addon, and get access to powerful features such as clumping, manual distribution and much more!

~150 builtin trees

The Addon comes with a rich library of premade trees, including ~70 deciduous trees, ~50 coniferous trees, and ~20 small trees and shrubs. You can also easily search through the library by name, species, size, or tags to find exactly what you want quickly.

Easily create your own

You can convert almost any 3D tree to an Alpha Tree in just a few steps! The addon will automatically render out color, normal, shadow and mask passes, and then combines them into an Alpha Tree that you can use like any other!

Updates:
v2.0 – 15/01/22

Moved entire system to geometry nodes for Blender 3.0.
Added 133 new trees, increasing the total amount from 15 to 148!
Added a powerful system for controlling distribution using layers.
Icons now load instantly instead of taking up to 40s for the full library.
Icons are now also higher resolution.
Camera clipping and targeting is now fully automatic.
Added tree search to make it easier to use large libraries.
Completely rewrote the documentation.
Restructured the entire addon to be easier to develop, making updates faster.
Added ability to fade out trees when they get too close to the camera.
Release post for details.