Interactive Data Visualization announced new versions of its flagship line of vegetation generating products — SpeedTree® Studio 6.1.1 and SpeedTree® Cinema 6.1.1. SpeedTree delivers beautiful, amazingly natural real-time trees and plants for movies, animations and architectural renderings. New version brings unwrapped models with texture generation, 64-bit support, faster wind computation, mesh optimization, fewer branch seams, multiple point cache improvements, and camera-facing leaf support. Interactive Data Visualization improved GUI with new navigation options, background image support, and viewport rendering options.
Significant Performance Increases allows that models compute up to six times faster, mesh crawling algorithm up to three times faster and leaf collision speeds up to 35 times faster.
SpeedTree, featured in 2009’s Avatar, delivers beautiful, amazingly natural real-time trees and plants for movies, animations and architectural renderings. SpeedTree includes SpeedTree Modeler, an application for Windows, Mac and Linux that offers a unique hybrid of hand and procedural modeling options.
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