Need advice on making trees

Having issues deciding on how to do trees for my game so i need some advice

  1. Would an image texture branch cast a shadow. And if not how should i make the branches.

  2. What would be a decent face count for them since there many of them.

  3. Any other advice i may need?

Thx for the any and all help :slight_smile:

Decided on using an image texture for the branches and shadows wouldn’t cast but i hadn’t checked the two sided box, and it fixed it completely.