SEGA Licenses SpeedTreeRT

IDV today announced that Sega has licensed their SpeedTreeRT technology for Empire: Total War. SpeedTreeRT 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. Empire: Total War is scheduled for download and retail release on March 4, 2009.