Tree question

Unity Engine
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I know that trees can only be painted over a Unity terrain. My problem is that I need to import a landscape from 3ds Max and paint trees on it. I don’t want to import 3D trees from a 3rd party because I need to keep my draw calls low so I’ve been thinking about a solution to the problem.

What I was thinking was to make a flat terrain and draw the trees on it then make the terrain invisible. At first I tried to seperate the terrain to another layer and make the camera not render it but it didn’t render the trees as well.

So, is there a way of doing this? with a texture, material or script?

Thanks in advance.

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Assuming that the scene that you want to paint trees on is flat then you should have no problem with just creating a flat terrain, placing it slightly below your scene, and painting the trees on that. Just set the Heightmap Resolution to something really low like 16 to avoid any performance overhead.

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Yeah I thought about that one but was wondering if there’s a cleaner way to control what’s going on.

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I have the same question here.

just want to show trees and hide terri.

but I don’t know how to .