Hello!
i have 3 different grass meshes without LODs each with about 14 tris, would it be better to use speedtree to make grass with LODs. i need grass for a big open world type landscape. I’ve been looking for grass with about 6 tris but no luck so i thought i’d turn to speedtree.
any suggestions, anythings better than nothing.
Thanks!
It depends 
When you are a good 3d artist I personally would do it with a 3d program, otherwise use SpeedTree → there are no real differences in quality between both ways
Would it affect performance if I used speedtree, speedtree usually has quite a bit of tris but has LODs. But if I were to make my own with low tris I wouldn’t make LODs (because I don’t know how). I have no idea which would be better for performance.
Thanks for your answer though
Both way have nearly the same performance → both types are meshes. Just the wind node in the material is a little bit different. But I pesonally would stay around 6 tris when you create grass ->you can still get a good result. When you are around 6 tris, you dont need any LOD’s. Otherwise create them in your 3d program (just delete some vertices without “destroying” the mesh
Thanks will give it a go big help!