Speed Tree 4 plug in

Introduced in 2002 at the SIGGRAPH, this plug-in has been a revolution for most 3D companies looking for a light, fast way of doing fully 3D realistic trees. Easy to install and as easy to use, it includes Speed Tree CAD Lite that allows you to create your own customized trees in addition to the large library available.

Speedtree is also used by the game industry, it has received very good testimonials from them and with studios such as Lucas Arts, Microsoft, Square Enix and Ubisoft using it.

What Speed Tree can do is quite impressive:
- Automatically generates a slightly different version of your tree whenever you copy it, so that your scene does not look like it only uses one tree.
- You can update them in real time.
- Several levels of detail
- You can create an entire forest quickly using Speed Forest.
- And it supports wind effects.

Having used Speed Tree, I can say I am fairly happy with all the functions included in this plug in. The only con I would talk about is lack of overview for the trees. It does not seem that important but when you are looking for several trees to populate your scene, the only way to actually see how they look is to create a render. This can be time consuming.