IDV will be unveiling the next major version of SpeedTree® at the Game Developers Conference 2009, with some very exciting improvements in modelling and rendering. OgreSpeedTree v2.0 will be bringing these capabilities to your Ogre based applications soon! OgreSpeedTree v2 will be a free upgrade for all OgreSpeedTree customers who purchase OgreSpeedTree on or after 25th March 2009, or who have an active support agreement on this date (including the 90-day support included with purchase). Details of upgrade pricing for customers without support will be announced on release.

• Really easy - get a great-looking forest rendering in no time!
• Tight integration with Ogre, familiar API & concepts
• Loads trees modelled in SpeedTreeCAD
• Smooth level-of-detail transitions, can be tuned depending on hardware capability
• Efficient batching of distant trees makes very large forests possible
• SpeedWind support - branches bend, leaves rustle
• Dynamic lighting and shadows
• High-quality, fully customisable materials using powerful Ogre material system
• Full source code available to all licensees

Here's a video to show it in motion:

This video also demonstrates the use of OgreSpeedGrass, which is provided as part of an annual support contract for OgreSpeedTree. OgreSpeedGrass gives you the benefit of large, rolling fields of grass which sway in the wind and are paged in efficiently around the camera. Distributions of grass can be manually defined down to the grass blade, randomly distributed, or loaded from a file.

OgreSpeedTree is licensed per-title and costs US$1495. OgreSpeedTree builds upon SpeedTreeRT® and therefore you must have a valid license for SpeedTreeRT® before we can provide OgreSpeedTree to you. Evaluation versions of OgreSpeedTree are available on request, please simply complete the contact form and we will get back to you as soon as possible.