Megascans Trees: European Black Alder (early access)

Quixel Megascans - Megascans - Dec 14, 2021

Megascans - This collection is an early access tree pack with 22 unique models of various maturity to build a photorealistic black alder forest. The pack includes a powerful foliage master material to control seasons and wind.

  • Supported Platforms
  • Supported Engine Versions
    4.25 - 4.27, 5.0 - 5.3
  • Download Type
    Asset Pack
    This product contains an assortment of Unreal Engine assets which can be imported into a pre-existing project of your choice.

The Black Alder collection is a complete tree species pack containing 22 unique tree assets: 9 forest trees, 5 field trees, 6 saplings, and 2 seedlings.


A dynamic shader is included to provide procedural controls over seasons, health, wind, and many other functionalities compatible across the entire Megascans vegetation library.


The trees are optimized with unique LODs, shader quality tiers, and various wind implementations (simple + pivot painter) for maximum performance. 


All tree variants are set up for painting and can be dragged and dropped with little effort to create a dense realistic forest scene.


Announcement video

Getting started with Megascans Trees tutorial


Technical Details

Total number of unique meshes: 22


Vertex count per mesh:

Matured Trees: [LOD0 20k-640k] to [LOD5 1k-13k]

Saplings: [LOD0 1200-32k] to [LOD3 100-2k]


LODs: seedlings/saplings 4, full trees 7

Lightmap UV’s: Yes

Collision: Yes

Number of Materials and Material Instances: 96

Number of Material Instances per tree: 1-5

Number of Textures: 14 Tree, 44 Impostor, 88 Pivot Painter

Texture Resolutions: 8k


Supported Development Platforms:

Windows: Yes

Mac: Yes


All assets are UASSETs. There are no source files included.


Important/Additional Notes: UE-Only Content - Licensed for Use Only with Unreal Engine-based Products