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Dark Void™ Will Not Be Treeless, Thanks to SpeedTree®
Company: IDV
Date: 07 Nov 2009
COLUMBIA, SC – SpeedTree® has been licensed for Dark Void™, a science fiction-based action title developed by Airtight™ Games that will be published by Capcom™ on January 12, 2010.
Focused on an elite band of warriors who must fight an alien race determined to conquer Earth, Dark Void offers a variety of combat options including mid-air battles powered by private jet packs. It will be available on Windows®, Xbox® 360 and PlayStation® 3.
“We heavily relied on Speed Tree for many of our missions, especially our early jungle levels,” said Brad Shuber, Airtight Production Art Lead.
“We were able to use SpeedTree in both large open level areas, where they could be viewed from any distance, and in small contained areas where detail was a major concern,” added Phillip Heckinger, Tech Art Lead at Airtight. “The level of motion in the foliage, which integrated with the levels wind settings, was beyond what could be achieved with a skeletal mesh while fitting in an efficient performance and memory footprint.”
Airtight Games was formed in 2004 from the core team that shipped the award winning Xbox title, Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge. Airtight has been working with publishers and industry leaders on contracts and publishing deals with a primary goal of creating triple A award winning titles with the best talent and publishing partners in the games business. With backgrounds in the game, film, television and comic book industries, Airtight’s eclectic team claims ship credit on over fifty different titles and decades of combined industry experience.
SpeedTree, winner of the 2005 Front Line Award for middleware, delivers beautiful, amazingly natural real-time trees and plants with seamless LOD transitions, an array of lighting, physics & wind effects, and an SDK programmed to support any level of engine integration. SpeedTree includes the SpeedTree Modeler, a Windows application that offers a unique hybrid of hand and procedural modeling options. For more information about SpeedTree, visit www.speedtree.com.
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.
Focused on an elite band of warriors who must fight an alien race determined to conquer Earth, Dark Void offers a variety of combat options including mid-air battles powered by private jet packs. It will be available on Windows®, Xbox® 360 and PlayStation® 3.
“We heavily relied on Speed Tree for many of our missions, especially our early jungle levels,” said Brad Shuber, Airtight Production Art Lead.
“We were able to use SpeedTree in both large open level areas, where they could be viewed from any distance, and in small contained areas where detail was a major concern,” added Phillip Heckinger, Tech Art Lead at Airtight. “The level of motion in the foliage, which integrated with the levels wind settings, was beyond what could be achieved with a skeletal mesh while fitting in an efficient performance and memory footprint.”
Airtight Games was formed in 2004 from the core team that shipped the award winning Xbox title, Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge. Airtight has been working with publishers and industry leaders on contracts and publishing deals with a primary goal of creating triple A award winning titles with the best talent and publishing partners in the games business. With backgrounds in the game, film, television and comic book industries, Airtight’s eclectic team claims ship credit on over fifty different titles and decades of combined industry experience.
SpeedTree, winner of the 2005 Front Line Award for middleware, delivers beautiful, amazingly natural real-time trees and plants with seamless LOD transitions, an array of lighting, physics & wind effects, and an SDK programmed to support any level of engine integration. SpeedTree includes the SpeedTree Modeler, a Windows application that offers a unique hybrid of hand and procedural modeling options. For more information about SpeedTree, visit www.speedtree.com.
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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