Merge and expand grouped objected

[Gamezdude]

Im wanting to merge the leaves in this tree into a single object that does not look like a load of icospheres but rather a bush.

Any hints?

[yogyog]

The way I see it, you have 3 options…

1. you could use metaballs instead of geospheres … then convert to mesh and decimate.
2. you could use Boolean modifiers to combine the Geospheres, followed by decimate mod
3. you could delete the overlapping vertexes by hand and then use “bridge edge loops” followed by triangulate.

I think 1 would be by far the easiest, but will stop everything from being geospheres.