Quote - > Quote - Vue uses billboards for trees which cuts way down on poly counts.  Maybe Carrara will have that feature one day.  Or one could model their tree in XSI.

One really good modeled tree in a scene is better than having many randomly generated and not so well modeled ones.

Not so sure about that.  Where was the last place you can recall being that had only one solitary tree?

Just outside of Bethel Alaska where you have a sign reading you are entering Bethal National Forest with a white picket fence around a small spruce tree, after the tree there is a sign reading you are now leaving Bethal National Forest.