Will be SpeedTree used in HoS?

[Apos]

As title says...

What is SpeedTree? It isn't tree on speed P) but technology used in Unreal 3.X engine to generate real time solution for animating wind-blown trees, lush jungles, thick forests etc.

Some screens

(from Batman)

more screens

Video:
YouTube - SpeedTree 5.0 Reference App - Huangshan Forest

Comparing to HoS...

http://ve3dmedia.ign.com/images/06/...ngrad-ExclusiveVoodooExtremeScreenshot-08.jpg

http://ve3dmedia.ign.com/images/06/...ngrad-ExclusiveVoodooExtremeScreenshot-06.jpg

Trees and grass here looks decent (i believe its alpha version only), but will they be animated (wind blow effect)?

 

[=GG= Mr Moe]

You know, I think I have seen some palm trees in MN that are animated, I would have to double check that...

 

[slavek]

I believe the palms in MN use Tex Panners/Oscillators but the tree itself is not animated.

 

[SturmSS]

Great idea. I'd love it! I could especially imagine how fierce some of the winds would be in the winter

 

[O'Shannon]

the trees in HOS look a lot like speedtree trees and since speedtree has a "wind-maker"( you can animate the wind blow effect in speedtree) and UE3 supports the whole speedtree magic... so i dont see a reason why HOS shouldn't make use of it

thx to UDK and speedtree you will be able to do your own trees ..(thats what i hope)

 

[Capt.Cool]

Looks great!

are the first 3 screenies from an game or just a demo?
I would like to know what kind of hardware you need to play that grafic with good speed.

 

[Xendance]

Speedtrees are fairly well optimized generally speaking, they have multiple LOD models and then finally a 2d billboard (which is only two triangles). For example, Oblivion uses Speedtree extensively, and these days it runs fairly well.

 

[=GG= Mr Moe]

I actually thought the lighting effects from the moving trees was more interesting than the trees themselves.

 

[Xendance]

At least in UDK there's no way to have dynamic shadows from trees unless you disable static lighting for them, which in turn disables all the goodness that lightmass does (indirect lighting etc etc), or turn on whole scene dynamic shadows. But that can make your FPS plummet, because then there's no way to disable dynamic shadows for other objects that won't benefit from it.

But I agree, moving shadows from swaying trees sure look awesome.

 

[Nezzer]

I just love that grass xD

 

[Apos]

Looks great!

are the first 3 screenies from an game or just a demo?
I would like to know what kind of hardware you need to play that grafic with good speed.

first 3 are from tech demo. If you want to check more go there:http://www.speedtree.com/gallery/index.php?Page=122

There are screens from such games like Batman, Dragons Age, Fallout 3, GTA4 etc.

Hardware req isn't so bad, same as in games above I mentioned.