SpeedTree For Games & Real-Time
We Know Games
SpeedTree has been the industry's premier foliage solution since 2002. An early SpeedTree adopter, Bethesda Softworks, raised the bar
for virtual forests with The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion™.
We went on to win our first Game Developer's Frontline Award for most outstanding middleware after its release in 2005.
Since then we've been helping developers world-wide save time so they can concentrate on what they do best: make games.
Modeling, animating, and rendering entire forests from scratch requires an exorbitant amount of resources and time. With SpeedTree, you can avoid having to reinvent the wheel.
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Features For Game Developers
No matter where you fall in the production pipeline, SpeedTree has you covered:
SpeedTree for Artists
- Artists can take full control with the SpeedTree Modeler – it handles both ultra-realistic or impossibly stylized trees.
- Save time with procedural modeling, or get exact results with hand drawing.
- Precisely control crucial performance aspects including polygon counts, LOD transitions, and fill rate.
- Gain access to the SpeedTree Model Library – hundreds of species and thousands of high-quality texture maps at your fingertips.
- Use our built-in world builder to quicky place thousands of trees.
- View a modeling walthrough right now.
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SpeedTree for Programmers
- Full source code is provided via the SpeedTree SDK. Drop the code right in, or modify it in any way.
- Vast and efficient forests – the SDK has a highly optimized system to cull the trees that aren't visible and determine the LOD states of the ones that are.
- The SpeedTree Compiler will automatically generate distant billboards and also stitch texture maps together into a shared atlas to reduce draw calls.
- Our billboards are 360° (approach them from any direction) and normal-mapped (the lighting matches at any time of day). We also supply a horizontal billboard for bird's eye views.
- We support multiple platforms without being a black box. Use only the C++ classes that you need, from full forest management to basic geometry access.
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See for Yourself…
SpeedTree isn't right for every application and we don't expect you take our word for how great it is. If trees are a concern for you and you believe we might be able to help, please click the link below to get started with our free evaluation.
