As Juan Franco explained, he grew tired of manually modeling trees, so he built a plug-in that procedurally generates them in real time right inside the editor, saving him months of work. He then released it publicly as Cosmo Tree Gen. With it, you can create and customize trees and export them in GLB/glTF formats with built-in LODs and collision meshes.

Among the highlights are one-click batch generation of dozens of trees using random seeds and reusable presets, curve-based controls for branch length and leaf size, and support for multiple trunks, roots, broken branches, and customizable foliage. It also comes with built-in triangle and draw call counters, a wind-sway foliage shader, and flat shading options for achieving low-poly and PSX-style visuals.

Cosmo Tree Gen is free and open-source under the MIT license and requires Godot 4.6 or later. The developer also emphasizes that no AI was used in creating the project.

More features are planned, with the full roadmap available in the GitHub repository. Upcoming additions include billboard impostor PNG generation for the final LOD, more low-poly foliage variations like pine and box-shaped leaves, and a tree age slider that will let you create everything from young saplings to old trees. The developer is also submitting Cosmo Tree Gen to the Godot Asset Library.

Download Cosmo Tree Gen here, and if Godot is your game engine of choice, you might be interested in Perspective Quads by BunkWire2X8, Calin P's authentic PlayStation 1-style rendering tool, and Emil J's tutorial series on creating water:

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