Based on our record, Blender seems to be a lot more popular than SpeedTree. While we know about 137 links to Blender, we've tracked only 7 mentions of SpeedTree. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Tech making development faster/easier. Not every game is cutting edge technology. A lot of great games doesn't necessarily have cutting edge visual either. Different game engines have different ways of facilitating game development. Then there's softwares that can be used to plug in those engines to further cut cost by just purchasing a solution. Some people example are Speedtree (significantly less costly to use... Source: over 1 year ago
I'm saying it's weird that you think bespoke crates are what makes a AAA game, it's also weird that you think AAA games don't use asset libraries. Source: over 1 year ago
Speaking of simulations, you also need the physics engine, which provides things like collision/bullet detection, damage/explosion simulations, deformations, environment manipulation (see: tyres of cars in GTA V when you shoot them; using telekinesis in Control to break up concrete, etc). There is an entire company, SpeedTree dedicated to just providing realistic trees for games and films. The Witcher 3 uses... Source: almost 2 years ago
Proc Gen is used across the entire industry for a myriad of reasons, for example, "Speed Tree" which is a very heavily used 3rd party suite of tools that allows users to generate foilage and enviroments rapdily. Source: almost 2 years ago
I'd read this as, "crafting an entire city manually by hand from skyscrapers down to a single piece of trash is a huge undertaking - let's develop some brand new tools to help automate some of this". Think "SpeedCity" instead of tools like "SpeedTree". Source: over 2 years ago
Update, I just downloaded 3.6 LTS from the blender.org official site, they are asking for donations. This time, the URL stayed. Source: 10 months ago
Hold up. When I go to blender.org then add the /thanks to the URL, it goes to that page, then immediately goes to a 404 right after. Interesting.... Source: 10 months ago
This is oddly strange its the usual go to for me to download blender updates (i google blender and click the usual blender.org strange..). Source: 10 months ago
If this is any other site than blender.org, you're at the wrong place. Source: 10 months ago
Can't say much, here. But I use this to deliver what my clients need. Before you ask why I can't tell - anonymity through obscurity. Source: 11 months ago
Tree Studio - Easy 2D Tree Creation
Unity - The multiplatform game creation tools for everyone.
The Grove 3D - Model or grow adaptive 3D Tree models for use in CG renderings.
Cinema 4D - Cinema 4D is a 3D modeling, animation, motion graphics and rendering application.
Treeit - Can create awesome 3d tree models and export to obj file format.
Unreal Engine - Unreal Engine 4 is a suite of integrated tools for game developers to design and build games, simulations, and visualizations.