With seven incredible forests, from the Mojave Desert to the Australian Outback, through Asia and the Dry Sierra and into your “forgotten” nightmares, in 2004 the Trees of Pangaea™ demo set the standard of environmental realism and beauty.

Built with SpeedTree®RT, Trees of Pangaea™ features windblown trees and grass, subtle lighting effects and hundreds of thousands of trees, plants, palms, cacti, grasses – you name it – spread across vast terrains covering hundreds of square miles.

download screenshots movies ->

Emerald Isle (0:55) 640 x 512 | 23.1 MB | Mpeg 230 x 256 |  6.6 MB  | Mpeg

Prairie Meadow (0.49) 640 x 512 | 20.7 MB | Mpeg 320 x 256 |  5.9 MB  | Mpeg

Trees of Pangaea (1:18) 640 x 512 | 26.1 MB | Mpeg 320 x 256 |  7.9 MB  | Mpeg

• A wide variety of worlds
  
  
• Hundreds of navigable square miles in each environment
  
  
• Up to hundreds of thousands of trees in the frustum at once
  
  
• Configurable visibility measured in miles
  
  
• Trees with extreme detail up close that transition seamlessly through LOD’s down to billboards
  
  
• Dense grass populates each world
  
  
• Bump-mapped trunks, branches, and meshes
  
  
• Local wind effects powered by SpeedTreeRT 1.7 wind capabilities
  
  
• Shadows cast on the ground and grass
  
  

Forests

Click on a forest for more info or to download.

• Prairie Meadow
• The Outback
• Forgotten Forest
• Mojave Desert
• Vietnamese Jungle
• Dry Sierra
• New England Autumn
  
  
• Object to object shadow casting
  
  
• Trees self-shadow on trunks and fronds
  
  
• High, medium, and low detail configurations for each forest with user editability
  
  
• Collision detection
  
  
• New proprietary sunlight algorithm
  
  
• Unique helicopters (or other “craft”) in each forest with realistic physics, wind effects, & auto-pilot
  
  
• Terrain Engine uses user-configurable heightmap
  
  
• Shadows blend into each other and into the backs of hills
  
  
• Navigate by first person, helicopter, or watch our random camera paths
  
  
• Mesh support with tunable LOD’s
  
  
  
  
• click on camera icons for a picture of each feature
  
  

• Press ‘F1’ to cycle through the help overlays
  
  
• Press ‘1’ to navigate manually (standard first person shooter controls)
  
  
• Press ‘F5’ to return to auto camera
  
  
• Manually fly the helicopter using the arrow keys to steer, ‘E’ to accelerate, and ‘Q’ to decelerate
  
  
• Toggle the grass visibility with ‘G’
  
  
• Toggle the ground/grass shadows with ‘X’
  
  
• Toggle the projected object shadows with ‘V’
  
  
• Use the ‘Edit..’ button on the dialog to change the look of the forest
  
  
• Each forest contains a HeightMap.tga file – the alpha plane contains the actual height map definition
  
  
• Each time F5 is pressed, a random camera location is picked, sometimes attached to the helicopter, sometimes not
  
  
• Note that the “high_detail” worlds are intended to run on 6800 and X800-class hardware to achieve 30+ fps at 1600x1200
  
  
• The objects in the world are randomly placed – change the .env config files to modify the object counts and other parameters
  
  
• 1600 x 1200 resolution screenshots are available for download, packaged per forest, from the Pangaea Image Browser
  
  

TreesOfPangaea_v1.0.exe (134 MB)
TreesOfPangaea_Engine_v1.0.exe (21.5 MB)
Patch enabling dual monitor support (5.6 MB)

Pangaea Downloads page