more than 500 is a lot. Look at these:
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they have no more than 50 Tris each. Currently the textures are masked BMPs, when using DDS they will look even much better. They're made with the tree creator I mentioned before, that is open source, sou you can modify it and finally create such a tree in a few milliseconds.
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they have no more than 50 Tris each. Currently the textures are masked BMPs, when using DDS they will look even much better. They're made with the tree creator I mentioned before, that is open source, sou you can modify it and finally create such a tree in a few milliseconds.