Yes, I know it has been awhile since I have written in my blog. I have been pretty consumed with my personal life (another story) , RL work and management tasks for this project. Nonetheless, I was able to get a few things done this weekend that I have been needing to do. One of which was the forestation of the Base Camp Eastern Zone.
I spent some time today working on foresting the zone just east of Base Camp. I am using the demo for SpeedTree that is included with Multiverse. Eventually, when we get funding, we can purchase a full license for the project (about $1495 for the initial part of the license…the rest due at launch).
Eastern Base Camp Forest
What I really like about SpeedTree is the ease of creating foliage across the landscape with it. Of course, since it is just the demo, we don’t have the full library to work with and the ability to create custom plants and trees is also missing. When we can get some funding for the project, one of the initial things we will do is get the licensed version for our project. For now, the demo trees will do a good job for filling in the areas we’ll want permanent plants to go down the road.
Yea its a real pain not having the full speed tree license but at a steep $10k its something almost untouchable by smaller independent developers. I wish they’d come up with some other solutions, like a pay over time or something like that.
Yeh I agree. I know it would possibly generate more business for them from indie projects.