How to place my own tree model

[dicendprice]

Hello, I encountered a problem with the location of trees via Paint Tree in Terrain. I made a tree model in Blender and imported it into Unity. Created a tree prefab and moved it to Edit Tree. When placed, the tree has no foliage, and the console writes “The tree sosna must use the Nature/Soft Occlusion shader. Otherwise billboarding/lighting will not work correctly.” I’ve been trying to make trees for 2 days now, I even tried to make them using the Tree Editor, but this option doesn’t suit me. How can I force the foliage to be displayed and change the shader if necessary if the material of my model is locked for change.
Thank you.

[Kurt-Dekker]

@dicendprice

I made a tree model in Blender and imported it into Unity.

Blender3D objects used as trees / detail in Unity3D terrain (See the second half of this response)

Terrain Editor Adds The Trees in Wrong Rotation (Custom Trees Made With Blender)

This might be because your scene includes the default camera and lights. Unity started importing those with its default Blender import script starting sometime in Unity2019 and it will break a lot of prefabs. You can either a) remove the Camera and Light and everything except the LOD group objects (properly named), or you can modify the Blender import script embedded in Unity. This means you would need to re-modify it every time you switched to a new version of Unity, but I was lazy and I do t…

When I work in Blender3D for Unity3D use, I follow these organizational rules:

• use Empty Blender Objects as folders: they come out as an extra GameObject

• ALWAYS parent everything to a single Empty, even a single object

• put as few objects in a given .blend file as possible, combining them in Unity into a prefab

• REMOVE unnecessary items (Light, Camera, etc.)

• use good names for your Blender3D objects and NEVER RENAME them after Unity sees them

• don’t even think about final Materials or Textures in Blender. Set the mesh to use N different materials, but always set up the materials within Unity and disregard what gets imported.