Speed Tree Optimization

[samread]

If been making some trees in speed tree and just imported them into UDK but it drops the frame rate but 10 for nearly every tree I put down. I have looked into LOD but hit a dead end, anyone have any ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks

[dcrosby]

Speed Tree Itself has some sliders where you can control polygon count, and remember every material adds a pass / chunk, so you can't get away with less than 2 Passes, one for the trunk and one for the leaves, but you may want to put all your fruit leaves, LOD's etc.. on One UV Layout to reduce the impact....

-Derek

[Monkey-666]

Also, one thing you should do is read the speedtree documentation which is included with UDK. It tells you everything you need to know about optimization. As a rule of thumb, you generally want to keep the poly count below 10k

-SGM