Realistic Palms for Unity – Coconut & Date Palm Assets

Palms in Realistic Style for Unity

Unity imports FBX and OBJ natively, so a realistic Coconut Palm or Date Palm lands in the project with its LOD Group, materials and collider already set up. The _LOD0–_LOD3 suffixes make Unity build the LOD Group on import, the collision mesh sits on a Mesh Collider with its renderer off, and the pivot stays at the base for terrain placement.

Bark carries base colour, normal and roughness maps; leaf cards are alpha-tested, not alpha-blended, so they write depth, need no sorting and cast correct shadows. LOD1–LOD3 drop branches and cards for distance. Beach, island and oasis scenes in first- or third-person survival and open-world games fit well — save each of the five palms as a prefab for the Terrain tree painter and use GPU instancing or the SRP Batcher in dense groves. For GLB, add Unity's glTFast package.

About the Realistic style

Realistic models use the PBR metal/roughness workflow that glTF 2.0, Unity, Unreal, Godot and three.js read directly.

Bark: base colour, normal and roughness maps on the trunk and branches.
Leaves: alpha-tested (masked) cards with leaf-cluster textures, not alpha-blended, so they write depth, need no sorting and cast correct shadows.
Bark and leaves use separate materials, which keeps draw calls predictable and works well with GPU instancing.
LOD0 is the close-up mesh; LOD1–LOD3 drop branches and leaf cards, so the last level is light enough for far distances.

Best for first- and third-person games, survival, open worlds and simulators on PC and consoles. On mobile, start from LOD1 or LOD2 as the nearest level and watch overdraw from leaf cards.

Using it in Unity

Unity imports FBX and OBJ natively; for GLB/glTF add Unity's official glTFast package (com.unity.cloud.gltfast), which imports at edit time.

Meshes named with _LOD0…_LOD3 suffixes get a LOD Group automatically on FBX import; otherwise add a LOD Group and set screen-size thresholds by hand.
Put the collision mesh on a Mesh Collider (enable Convex for rigidbodies) and keep its renderer off.
Leaves: enable Alpha Clipping in the URP/HDRP Lit shader and render both faces.
For the Terrain tree painter, save each tree as a prefab with a LOD Group. Dense forests benefit from GPU instancing, the SRP Batcher or the GPU Resident Drawer in Unity 6.

No SpeedTree importer or licence is needed.