Hi,

Here is sample of our initial test with Speed Tree working with 3DGS.

Not like many people will be using Speed Tree due to price, but it does show it is possible to integrate it into 3DGS. We are also currently working on integrating the Havoc Physics Engine into 3DGS, unfortunately none of these will be released to public, although the Earth Sculpture export plugin we are working on will be released to 3DGS community for free once the boss man gives us the thumbs up to do so.

The only reason I am really showing this is, if you really want to you can integrate almost anything into 3DGS in Lite-C if you have the desire and the skill to do so. Not that it is easy, we do have good programmers, but it is possible.



Initial Speed Tree into 3DGS Movie (.m2v file)

Later,
Loco

Is the speed tree thing what is making the trees move ?

How fast is the final result?

And will you add some shadow mechanism for the terrain? Currently it looks like a photo-montage. The trees get some decent shading but the terrain does not.

Nice work, although the animation is a little fast

Why do you want to choose Havok? I don´t like it´s licence and the "free" sdk doesn´t offer the new cloth, softbody, ... features. I although wasn´t able to create static, polygonal collision geometry with it. Havok behaves nice and is fast but PhysX is even faster, with a little less accuracy, it has many more features and a "better" licence. Why would you prefer Havok if you could also use PhysX?
I am just curious

Good to hear that's possible.
I want to implement it, too.
But not before next year.

Using Havoc was a team decision. We checked into PhysX also, but we decided on Havoc for certain features it has that fits our game. We looked hard at them both of them though.

I have to use SpeedTree in 3dgs.
But I do not know how to do it
Please help me find a way or give a hint as to implement.
I guess that you can connect as a file spt. But I do not know its internal format.

Very Nice Loco,

I like how it looks, although, as mentioned the terrain getting some of the shading would be nice...

Offtopic I know, but aren't you supposed to be "retired" from 3dgs like me ... what have you been up to?

Regards,
Ayrus

Hmmm.... Ayrus, not so retired I guess.

Unfortunately, I have now learned to rig, weight, and animate models due to necessity. Sigh. I am actually really getting good at that stuff, although I don't enjoy it much and definitely didn't enjoy learning how to do it.

I will show something a little more updated soon just for you. Something more worthy, lol.

Hope you are doing well,

Later,
Loco

easier than importing it