Create Foliage and Trees for Games or Film using SpeedTree

Learn to create foliage and trees for games or film with SpeedTree, including custom leaves and optimized foliage, exporting to Maya, and setting up custom materials for a game engine.

Learn to create a bark texture by downloading free textures, composing layers in Photoshop, adjusting levels and curves, and generating maps for bark and leaf textures.

Create a leaf texture in Photoshop by using alpha to isolate leaves, apply a green background, and generate a specular map with curves, levels, and blending effects.

source a grass texture image, remove the background in Photoshop with color range, refine edges, and create specular and normal maps to complete the grass texture.

Speedtree overview introduces creating a new file, adjusting leaves, branches, materials, and mesh, using forces like wind and magnets, and hand-placing foliage to build your first trees.

Create a low-poly tree in SpeedTree by adjusting the trunk, generation gap, frequency, and size scaler; tweak branches, curves, and skin settings to achieve realistic variation.

Learn to build a tree in SpeedTree by resizing elements, deleting stray branches, and importing materials and a custom leaf mesh with adjustable scale.

Create a bush in SpeedTree by adding branches, adjusting generation gaps, applying skin textures to branches and leaves, and tuning scale, frequency, and polygon count for a compact game-ready asset.

Learn to create grass and foliage in SpeedTree by importing textures, drawing branches, adjusting trunk shapes, and applying leaf and bark textures for natural variation.