Tooling Around: Seeing The Forest Because Of SpeedTree?

Vikingod · Mar 23, 2007, 01:42 PM

Source: Gamasutra
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For the first part in Gamasutra’s ‘Tooling Around’ feature, which profiles and interviews middleware and tools developers about their products, today’s interview is with Kevin Meredith, Director of Business Development at IDV Inc., developers of foliage generation SDK SpeedTreeRT.

The product first launched in late 2002, born from IDV’s frustration at being unable to find a tool to effectively create numerous real-time trees. SpeedTreeRT allows users to generate trees and plants from its library and control variables like branch length and branching angles, and also provides adjustable wind effects and a configurable level of detail transition. As well as the SpeedTreeCAD Windows-based modeling tool, the SDK also includes plug-ins for 3ds Max and Maya.

Mar 23, 2007, 01:42 PM	#1
Vikingod Int'l Fish Liaison Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: By the light of lamp I sit and type... Posts: 16,197 Rep Power: 112 System Specs	Tooling Around: Seeing The Forest Because Of SpeedTree? Source: Gamasutra ___________ For the first part in Gamasutra’s ‘Tooling Around’ feature, which profiles and interviews middleware and tools developers about their products, today’s interview is with Kevin Meredith, Director of Business Development at IDV Inc., developers of foliage generation SDK SpeedTreeRT. The product first launched in late 2002, born from IDV’s frustration at being unable to find a tool to effectively create numerous real-time trees. SpeedTreeRT allows users to generate trees and plants from its library and control variables like branch length and branching angles, and also provides adjustable wind effects and a configurable level of detail transition. As well as the SpeedTreeCAD Windows-based modeling tool, the SDK also includes plug-ins for 3ds Max and Maya.