SpeedTree Modeler
This is where it all starts. The Modeler covers all aspects of modeling including procedural and hand-tuned geometry creation, LOD, lighting, physics, and more.

SpeedTree Compiler
This light-weight app gets trees primed for real-time rendering. Use the Compiler to combine efficient real-time tree models, texture atlases, and 360° normal-mapped 
billboards in no time.

SpeedTree SDK
This set of C++ classes conquers all of the tasks associated with high performance tree rendering, all in a way that is easy to integrate.

SpeedTree for Games is an Award-winning 3D Procedural vegetation middleware product with fine-tuned art controls.  Includes Modeler, Compiler, Tree Library and full-source SDK.

OPTIMIZATION
Increased performance throughout, including faster instance paging, constant buffer updates, and shader optimizations.

SUBDIVISION SURFACES
Create procedurally generated subdivision surface models suitable for hero trees.

SUPPORT
For PlayStation® 4, Xbox® One, Windows (DX9/11/OpenGL), Xbox® 360, and PlayStation® 3.

HUE VARIATION
Each tree instance and/or each leaf can now be uniquely tinted, adding more variation with fewer assets.

ROLLING WIND EFFECTS
In the same way that real wind gusts through nature, SpeedTree grass and trees now react rhythmically and believably to anything from breezes to gales. Each leaf and blade of grass animates uniquely.

IMAGE-BASED AMBIENT LIGHTING
More realistic ambient lighting.

GAME MODELER FEATURES

• Improved Leaf LOD
• GUI Improvements
• Floating License
• New Generation Algorithms
• Improved Control for Leaf Normals

MODELER

HAND DRAWING
Draw branch structures directly in the viewport using a tablet device or the mouse.

GROW AROUND PROPS
Make trees grow around or inside arbitrary meshes from your world.

BREAK A BRANCH
Then cap it realistically or delete individual branches & leaves entirely.

SCALE RESOLUTION
Quickly scale the amount of polygonal detail without affecting the shape of your model.

WORLD BUILDING
World building with tree placement export directly from the Modeler.

FORCES
Use forces to curl, twist, or gnarl any tree part.

PREVIEW DYNAMICS
Test real-time physics interaction, wind, and LOD all in the Modeler.

WELD BRANCHES
Branch welding means no more lighting seams or branch intersections.

NODE EDITING
Edit individual tree parts without affecting the rest of the tree. Our node-editing approach lets you tune or delete any branch, frond, or leaf.

COMPILER

COMBINE TREES WITH TEXTURE ATLASES
Reduce the number of texture look-ups by combining textures from multiple trees into a shared set of atlases. Rotate and scale individual textures to ensure a compact fit.

PERFECT BILLBOARDS
Distant trees that transition into billboards match their 3D counterparts to a ‘T’; even under dynamic lighting. The Compiler outputs all the texture layers needed to pull it off.

EFFICIENT BINARY FILE FORMAT
The Compiler intelligently computes and renders not only billboards and texture maps, but also efficient binary tree models.

COMPILER WIZARD
SpeedTree Compiler has a wizard mode that quickly gets your trees real-time ready, with simpler options.

SDK

HUE VARIATION
With the version 7 SDK, hues can be varied per-instance and per-vertex to achieve more naturalist color and texture effects. Size and hue variation can give the appearance of many unique trees with just a single tree model.

IMAGE-BASED AMBIENT LIGHTING
This new SDK feature makes it easy to use images, such as sky backgrounds, to generate ambient lighting effects that are more true to the natural light of outdoor scenes.

ROLLING WIND
The Rolling Wind Control adds directional, wave-like wind effects for animating the natural motion of grass, trees and dense vegetation.

LIBRARY

ALL NEW TREE LIBRARY
Check out our diverse library of trees for your next project.

SpeedTree Games/SDK Pipeline Walkthrough

The SpeedTree staff must give this demo 50 times a day at GDC and SIGGRAPH to game developers. On YouTube now via popular demand. The SpeedTree for Games pipeline contains: - The Modeler app for creating and editing vegetation - The Compiler app…

SpeedTree Wind 

This video shows SpeedTree  wind on a white birch tree. These settings were obtained by running the wind wizard and then doing some manual tuning. The video was captured in real-time from the SpeedTree Modeler.

Wind Wizard Results - Coconut Palm

This video shows what SpeedTree new Wind Wizard does on the Coconut Palm model in our library. Shown here is the direct result, you're free to tune the animation as you see fit after the wizard executes. This example depicts a reasonable …

SpeedTree FBX For Maya

In this walkthrough, Steve Klipowicz explains the basics of running the SpeedTree FBX and SpeedTree Forest plug-ins for Maya. These tools improve upon the experience of using the built in FBX importer for Maya, as seen in the video.

SpeedTree Cinema

SpeedTree Cinema is the award-winning 3D-modeling suite that allows you to
model, texture, and animate, both stylized and photoreal vegetation for VFX, arch/viz, or matte paintings.

PROCEDURAL + HAND MODELING

CREATE
Model and shape any type of vegetation using a combination of procedural and fine-tuned art controls.
ANIMATE
Preview and tune new advanced wind effects and create fine-tuned animated growth sequences.
TEXTURE
Apply textures to your entire model with a few clicks, with export scripts for most popular DCCs and renderers.

• PBR Materials and Workflow- Full PBR rendering in the SpeedTree Modeler as well as new editing tools for materials allow artists to fine tune their models before exporting into your DCC.
• Branch Extensions- Use child branches to extend their parents, providing greater control and smoother transitions to twigs.
• Phyllotaxy Generation Algorithm- New generation algorithm based on how leaves naturally grow on branches.
• Mesh Cutout System- Easily cut meshes to the shape of your leaf or cluster using our new mesh editor.
• Spine Noise- New property applies late or early noise along the length of the branch or trunk.
• Bifurcation Generation Algorithm- New generation algorithm automatically adds new child branches to create natural organic branch structures incredibly quickly.
• Leaf Collision- New background running, polygon-accurate tool to automatically remove intersecting leaves or clusters.
• Knot Generator- Completely reimagined approach for creating more interesting geometry for knots allows for more interesting gashes, knots, and scars.
• Material Sets- Materials can be grouped into sets to allow edits across multiple leaf types or bark textures.
• Discrete Season Approach- One .SPM model now uses a season curve to create unique trees at any point in the year.
• Faster AO Computation-  New algorithm computes per-vertex AO on complex models in a fraction of the time.
• Interval Generation Algorithm– New algorithm that places branches in a set interval.
• Aspect Ratio Correct Mapping– Use a new UV mapping style to automatically tile textures based on their aspect ratio and that of the underlying geometry.
• Knockout and Pruning– Procedural tools for eliminating clutter, especially interior portions of the model.
• New Split feature– Split trunks and/or branches and extend them with new generators for fine control and seamless UV mapping.
• Shape Control– Automatically fill in meshes or procedurally placed spheres with branch structures to achieve complex shapes.
• Pruning- Automatically and intelligently reduce the number of branches across the tree.
• Decoration Generators- New “Fin” generator allows the addition of more shelf fungus and more.
• Material variance– Randomly adjust material colors to create subtle map variations.
• Built-in Spine Forces– Commonly used forces like gravity are built in to the new branch generator.
• Shell Geometry- Create more interesting trunks or stumps with the new Shell Geometry generator.
• Art Director Tool- Allows intuitive shaping of the tree, whether shaping entire branch levels or a single twig.