Zone Creation Model/Texture issues

[OrisonSeven]

I understand what you are saying, and yes it helps, but the most important thing for us right now is the trees as if we have to double the poly count, we will have to decrease the rest of the polys and thats not the best idea as we want the zones to look good.

I have done some massizve searching across the boards and found some helpful info, but alot of the links on some of the pages no longer work including the tree creation tutorials and the PDF files to explain.

Any help woule be greatly appreciated.