Alpha Trees lets you create flat tree cards, fast, which can render many times faster than normal 3D tree models and use far less memory. The addon also lets you import, modify and scatter these trees with ease.

Normal tree models generally have 100s of thousands to millions of polygons, high-res textures and are generally slooow to render. Alpha Trees fixes this by instead converting these models into flat tree cards, and uses an advanced material to give them the illusion of being fully 3D.

With Alpha Trees, not only can you render entire forests kilometres wide and containing millions of trees, you can do it fast.

The addon also comes with many more features:

• A library of 150 high quality pre-made tree cards
• Full integration with Geo Scatter
• An easy system for converting existing 3D trees into tree cards
• A powerful material that lets you control the entire look of the tree (colour, leaves, snow etc.)
• Easy and quick scattering of entire forests from the side panel
• A powerful procedural distribution system
• + more

Check the Blender Market page for more info and examples.