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Ascaron Chooses SpeedTree®RT for Sacred 2: Fallen Angel
Company: IDV
Date: 15 Oct 2008
COLUMBIA, SC – Sacred 2: Fallen Angel, the prequel to the wildly popular 2004 fantasy role playing game Sacred, will be heavily populated with the trees and plants of SpeedTree®RT, IDV and Ascaron Entertainment have announced.
“With Sacred 2, we have created incredibly beautiful, varied environments, full of wind-blown trees and fantastic plants and flowers,” said Kay Struve, Ascaron’s Technical Director. “SpeedTree’s extensive customization made it ideal as the choice for bringing our outdoor worlds to life.”
Sacred 2 takes place 2,000 years prior to the events in Sacred, when conflict over an energy source leads to chaos and destruction.
This is the third Ascaron project to feature SpeedTreeRT. Tortuga – Two Treasures and Anstoss 2007 also used SpeedTree. The level design and environments in Sacred 2 deliver a wealth of variation and incredible depth, delivering a whole new level of detail.
Sacred 2 is due out this month on PC, and early 2009 on next-generation consoles.
Ascaron Entertainment, founded in Germany in 1989, is a leading European “boutique” distributor and publisher of games for the PC and consoles, with successful titles including DarkStar One, Sacred and more recently, Call of Juarez, American Civil War and City Life 2008 Edition. Ascaron maintains development studios in Germany, and an International office in Birmingham, United Kingdom.
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 200 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.
“With Sacred 2, we have created incredibly beautiful, varied environments, full of wind-blown trees and fantastic plants and flowers,” said Kay Struve, Ascaron’s Technical Director. “SpeedTree’s extensive customization made it ideal as the choice for bringing our outdoor worlds to life.”
Sacred 2 takes place 2,000 years prior to the events in Sacred, when conflict over an energy source leads to chaos and destruction.
This is the third Ascaron project to feature SpeedTreeRT. Tortuga – Two Treasures and Anstoss 2007 also used SpeedTree. The level design and environments in Sacred 2 deliver a wealth of variation and incredible depth, delivering a whole new level of detail.
Sacred 2 is due out this month on PC, and early 2009 on next-generation consoles.
Ascaron Entertainment, founded in Germany in 1989, is a leading European “boutique” distributor and publisher of games for the PC and consoles, with successful titles including DarkStar One, Sacred and more recently, Call of Juarez, American Civil War and City Life 2008 Edition. Ascaron maintains development studios in Germany, and an International office in Birmingham, United Kingdom.
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 200 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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