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Some very nice looking trees indeed and the tools are very interactive and fast. A perfect tool for building one-of-a-kind hero trees.

The gallery tree types are way off though. That Sugar Maple sure ain't a sugar maple, either roadside or forest. Neither is the Oak.

Awww it doesn't matter any more anyway as long as it blows up and burns down good. :P

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WOW times two...

Have you seen the prices? And the support contract? WOW...

It's really cool and fast but it is expensive! You could probably build a nice digital asset capable of making you a tree the way you wanted, accepting as Input your "Curve SOP" or whatever... complete with shaders control!

The RBD part I really don't know...

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The prices are also high in cinema... almost 40k... for one year. But you can use it in as many productions as you like... :)

yeah but games seem to be their primary target market which would explaing the licensing terms :). Can you imagine SESI licensing their products like that.... eek!

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As for games, I think it is way way waaaaay to expensive. I'm not sure they have a good business model. There's only gonna be a handful of game companies who may be able to afford this, for a very specific type of game. Better invest in a good programmer than have a few nicer looking trees and bushes (especially if they are likely to clash with the rest of the design)

At least that's how I see it from this end.

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agreed, prices are ridiculous.

I was amazed by the performance of the dynamics and the simplicity of the app ...

but who throws boxes at trees anyway? ;)

I agree. If you're going to throw stuff at trees, at least

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It reminds me of the time when Softimage start selling FaceRobot for like 100 000$

Studios that could afford the software, could actually afford to build their own tool from scratch. And people who could actually care for the product could not afford it.

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