IDV has announced it has signed a licensing agreement with Sierra Entertainment to use SpeedTreeRT software solutions to enhance outdoor environments in a number of new and upcoming Sierra Entertainment titles, including the recently-released World in Conflict. 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.