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SpeedTree partners with BiteTheBytes

IDV inc. and BiteTheBytes UG today announced a partnership to provide customers with perfect landscape solutions.

The partnership focuses on the development of technology-demos to show the power of Cloddy`s smart terrain combined with SpeedTree`s perfect vegetation to provide industry leading visualization capabilities. The collaboration and integration of industry leading solutions will enable customers to benefit from the visual quality of today’s AAA games to create outstanding applications like compelling training and simulation experiences. The off-the-shelf integrated solution provides a common framework that is optimized with market-adapted workflow to allow small teams to quickly achieve game-quality results without the prohibitive cost and risk associated with game development.

SpeedTree, winner of the 2005 Front Line Award for middleware, delivers beautiful, amazingly natural real-time trees and plants with seamless LOD transitions, an array of lighting, physics & wind effects, and an SDK programmed to support any level of engine integration. SpeedTree includes the SpeedTree Modeler, a Windows application that offers a unique hybrid of hand and procedural modeling options. For more information about SpeedTree, visit www.speedtree.com. Interactive Data Visualization, Inc. (IDV) develops software products with a focus on real-time three dimensional applications for the game development, visual simulation, engineering visualization, and animation industries. IDV, a privately held corporation, was founded in 1999 in Columbia, South Carolina. For more information about IDV, visit www.idvinc.com.

EIGA 2010 - We WON!

Yes, it is true, BiteTheBytes wins the European Innovative Games Award 2010 - Advancement Price T Innovative Technology !!!

We all want to say thank you to everybody who assisted us and believed in us during the start-up phase of our company and our product. We also want to thank the jury for their decision and to Knut who is responsible for that we finally enrolled for the EIGA award. Big thanks also to the Games Academy assisting us all the time.

FDV Licenses Cloddy

Flight Data Vision (FDV), a privately owned avionic industry company with locations both in the United Kingdom and France, today announced that it has licensed the Cloddy® Technology from BiteTheBytes UG to improve PGS-3D, a tool to provide the users with Real Time, Comprehensive, Interactive and High Fidelity 3D visualization of aircraft data.
http://flightdatavision.com/

Making Games Magazine Article

We wrote an article in the german game developer magazine about terrains in games in which we compared DLOD and CLOD systems.

We explain what problems occur when creation, management and visualization of terrains come into question for realtime applications and what kind of solutions already exists for rendering extremely huge and detailed terrains. Well, there is one … Cloddy!

You can read it here (german language only)

RTL & 3SAT

Just before the European Innovative Games Award a team from the european television channel "3Sat" came along for an interview with us. This was the first time for BiteTheBytes being interviewed by a public and popular TV channel. You can check it out here: http://www.3sat.de/page/?source=/neues/sendungen/magazin/148534/index.html

Also, a cool team from RTL Hessen interviewed us right after we have won the European Innovative Games Award 2010. A complete video can be viewed here: http://www.rtl-hessen.de/videos.php?video=11926