The authors of SpeedTree, a game rendering middleware, had the same experience; > We launched SpeedTree with just a few dozen tree and bush species, assuming t

The authors of SpeedTree, a game rendering middleware, had the same experience; > We launched SpeedTree with just a few dozen tree and bush species, assuming that our customers would prefer to bypass the library and develop their own plants. But once our first licensees started sending us screen shots and demos, we were surprised to see many of our original trees in them, little changed from those we had provided in that first small library. http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/130550/middleware_postmortem_idv_incs_.php?print=1 http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/130550/middleware_post...