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Secret Lair Studios Licenses SpeedTree®RT
Company: IDV
Date: 12 Apr 2006
COLUMBIA, SC – Secret Lair, a new game developer based in Seattle, has licensed SpeedTree®RT for a PC title currently under development.
“We licensed SpeedTree because our focus is to make great games – and to use the best tools available to make them better and faster,†said Jason Robar, vice president of Worldwide Studios at Secret Lair. “Licensing SpeedTree was an easy decision to make. Especially considering that SpeedTree is a BigWorld tool partner, the integration is now seamless.â€
Lead Tools Engineer Toby Gladwell added, “The SpeedTree system represents the ideal solution for us to procedurally create a vast array of varied and beautiful trees and foliage so our artists don’t have to. The time savings in content production time are immense.â€
Secret Lair Studios (SLS) is a game developer with its primary development office in the Seattle, Washington area and another studio in Shanghai, China. Founded in 2005, Secret Lair Studios' goal is to produce world-class, online games with boldly innovative game-play content for the global gaming marketplace. For more information about SLS, visit www.secretlairstudios.com
SpeedTreeRT, winner of the 2005 Front Line Award for middleware, delivers highly realistic trees and plants, with adjustable wind effects, user-configurable and seamless LOD transitions, and an included library of hundreds of tree, plant and marine models representing more than 170 core species. SpeedTreeRT includes SpeedTreeCAD, a Windows application used to create and edit animated trees in real-time.
Interactive Data Visualization, Inc. (IDV), develops software products with a focus on real-time three dimensional applications for the game development, visual simulation, engineering visualization, and animation industries. IDV, a privately held corporation, was founded in 1999 in Columbia, South Carolina. For more information about IDV, visit www.idvinc.com.
“We licensed SpeedTree because our focus is to make great games – and to use the best tools available to make them better and faster,†said Jason Robar, vice president of Worldwide Studios at Secret Lair. “Licensing SpeedTree was an easy decision to make. Especially considering that SpeedTree is a BigWorld tool partner, the integration is now seamless.â€
Lead Tools Engineer Toby Gladwell added, “The SpeedTree system represents the ideal solution for us to procedurally create a vast array of varied and beautiful trees and foliage so our artists don’t have to. The time savings in content production time are immense.â€
Secret Lair Studios (SLS) is a game developer with its primary development office in the Seattle, Washington area and another studio in Shanghai, China. Founded in 2005, Secret Lair Studios' goal is to produce world-class, online games with boldly innovative game-play content for the global gaming marketplace. For more information about SLS, visit www.secretlairstudios.com
SpeedTreeRT, winner of the 2005 Front Line Award for middleware, delivers highly realistic trees and plants, with adjustable wind effects, user-configurable and seamless LOD transitions, and an included library of hundreds of tree, plant and marine models representing more than 170 core species. SpeedTreeRT includes SpeedTreeCAD, a Windows application used to create and edit animated trees in real-time.
Interactive Data Visualization, Inc. (IDV), develops software products with a focus on real-time three dimensional applications for the game development, visual simulation, engineering visualization, and animation industries. IDV, a privately held corporation, was founded in 1999 in Columbia, South Carolina. For more information about IDV, visit www.idvinc.com.
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