Interactive Data Visualization, developers of SpeedTreeMAX, have released a realistic demonstration, based on emerging real-time tree and grass technologies, to showcase the possibilities for future gaming worlds. "The Valley" features realistic trees and grass blowing in the wind and includes advanced level of detail and presentation algorithms. Several features of the demo, including bark bump mapping and multiple shadowing effects, are based on as yet unreleased capabilities of the software. These capabilities should be available in a new version of SpeedTreeRT in fourth quarter 2003.
New Technology for Real-Time Trees, Grass
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