They come with this features:
New Features in BETA 2
- Flares along branches: deform the mesh to imitate strong roots or bulges.
- Billboard Leaves: Leaves that rotate towards the viewer to achive more densly looking trees with few polygons.
- Frond and Leaf color variation: More natural looking trees through easy to use color variation per leaf.
- Convert to DDS: All textures that are exported as TGA can now additionally be converted to DDS format.
- LeafCards: Top-Down mode to create leaf textures for billboards.
- Visual Tree Component Editor: Much improved UI for editing tree components and reusing them in other trees.
- Generally much cleaned up UI. Added progress bars for longer operations.
- Fixed broken FBX export. Improved smooth vertex normals.
- Several improvements to the tree generation. Branch width is now absolute, Trunk types can be spwaned with more control.
- Added Billboard and Impostor LOD types.
- Export to custom format, which supports all the features that are required to fully render a Kraut tree.
- Added program "Kraut Viewer" with full source, which demonstrates how to load and render a kraut tree.