8 Blender Addons for Roads and Streets

in today's video I'm going to be showing you guys a several blender addons and tools that will help you on creating scenes and environments with roads and streets if you're looking to make a large environment but don't want to suffer through the process of making every asset on your own then today's video is probably for you so without further Ado let's Jump Right In we're going to start with procedural alleys we have talked about this one before but it is really important so we might as well go through it again procedural alleys is a geometry nose generator designed to help you create multiple types of alleys and customize them in a short period of time that's why it is very popular it comes with two different types of alleys front and back alleys front alleys are usually bright and full of life because they have power lines and street lights and back alleys are naturally dark or narrow alleys containing back stairs pipelines containing and wires hanging between the two walls what's so interesting about this tool is that it gives you full control and flexibility over your generated alleys you can for example change the height and width of each alley in addition to the density and location of various assets the assets included in this tool are very optimized and they are of high quality in order to be able to scatter many of them on your scene without losing performance this addon contains frontal Windows shops doors garages air containers air conditioners curtains walls signs sewers and sidewalks alongside the assess I mentioned earlier and much more next we have urbanc streets roads and highways and just like the name suggests this can be your friend when creating roads and highways it is essentially a standalone expansion that complement the really well-known and successful add-on Urban C the asset back this ano comes with a library of over a 100 customizable highquality assets for you to use for different cases making roads and highways using orbac is great because it uses a modular system that allows you to easily place and modify your roads and sidewalks you can easily adjust many attributes like curvature inclination length and you can even have an option to make elevated highways another handy feature is that this addon offers the ability to control light which gives you full customizability of your lights and it works in real time with treat traffic and building lights with parameters for intensity quantity of lights turned on and off and so on what's more impressive is for example the ability to add snow in addition to what surfaces and animated raindrops to help you get the extra realism in your scene with almost zero efforts this Anon also has a fully integrated library that that works with blender asset browser making it very easy and effortless to drag and drop those assets into your scene and if you want something for specifically creating roads and stuff there is the road path Creator add-on what this add-on does is it makes it really easy and simple to create a route simply by drawing a path using this add-on I would say it is really simple after installing it you just need to select the desired preset then click click on draw Road and go into the edit mode where you can simply draw any road path that crosses your mind and you will be mind blown by how well this Anon handles it on a side note a feature worth mentioning is that you have the ability to change the resolution of your Road in case you are using a slower machine or if you want a smoother and rounder Road from what I can see it gives you full customizability of your textures with settings to control normals roughness displacements UV parameters and Transformations and if you're not satisfied with the built-in textures you can also bring in your preferred PBR materials to use that instead now if you want to generate those sweet light trails from cards at night then you probably want to take a look at light Trail generator which is a tool powered by geometry nodes that simply lets you convert custom curves into animated light Trail effects as simple as this tool may sound creating such an effect is incredibly complicated and timec consuming but with this add-on I think it is super easy to set up and you simply need to adjust the geometry node modifier and then copy paste it in your scene you have full control and flexibility over your Trails enabling you to adjust the shape time materials trim tilt and noise displacement with a lot adjustable settings for you to fine tune like the trail amount noise time scale emission shape profile type tilt offset and speed and so much more another very nice feature that comes with this add-on and I'm sure many of you want to use this option to make seamless Loops over a certain period of time you can also taper the ends of your Trails for a more interesting look to your custom Trails this tool is compatible with both cycles and EV and will require a 3.3 version of blender or higher CS roads is also an add-on that allows you to generate roads from curves I mean custom curves using geometry nodes but what makes this tool different is that the roads comes with railings in addition to lights and even rocks and guess what since it uses geometry nodes everything is fully customizable in the geometry node modifier starting from the road resolution and size in addition to railing lights with size and post distance and you can even change the lamp post count and offset distance in addition to settings for controlling the scattering of rocks along the side of the road this generator is basically a blender file that comes with a road preset and in order to generate roads you first need to go into the Eric mode and either modify the existing curve or delete it and draw your own so it is completely up to you after you are done generating your road you can simply copy and paste it into the scene and continue adjusting it in your project it is also worth noting that all the sets come with PBR textures that you can easily replace with your own Textures in the geometry node modifier but we also have another geometry node generator for creating City roads to be specific it comes with more than 80 customizable settings for you to tweak and adjust to your liking CD Road maker comes with three different versions for you to choose from standard Pro and unlimited The Standard Version offers a fair amount of control like Road size Lanes shoulders patches as well as line control for the type number and color in addition to Road size settings like type size and also lamp PSE control for modifying their type position and lights the pro version includes all the controls I just mentioned in addition to Green Belt and boxwood control for the side roads and also barrier control settings and finally the ultimate version which comes with all the previously mentioned customizations in addition to a very nice tool for making Road intersections crosswalks and traffic lights you can also scatter any asset of your liking and you can do that on the side of the road with control over size density and more but wait there is even more because we have next streat which is an add-on made for fast and easy generation of streets and cities inside blender it has many things that you can use to handle sidewalls how the streets look and controlling how your textures appear this tool will help you create lifelike streets in a matter of just minutes which is the point in the first place the best feature of this add-on I think is simulations this lets you simulate moving cars and traffic using a simple tackle giving you a lot of control over the application of dynamic animations which is very interesting and if you're worried about the performance then don't because this add-on comes with a viewport proxy Fe feature which is important in a lot of cases especially if you have a low-spec computer and it works by only displaying objects that are within the camera's frame which will drastically help the performance especially if you're running a complex scene another feature that will help you with your performance is to make the animations for fast viewport playback and we can't forget about the customizability of the add-on because you have control over every little detail of your scene and streets in addition to sidewalks such as the profile guard rails material grass bench light garbage and so much more that you can explore another handy feature that this add-on offers is ability to tweak your textures making it very easy to add snow and what surfaces simply by using a slider and there you have it guys if you are interested in one of these anons you will find all the necessary links in the description I hope you found this video useful and informative if you did please give it a thumbs up you can also check some of our previous videos thank you very much for watching and I will see you in the next one for

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Keywords: Roads and Streets, Procedural Alleys, Urbaniac, Streets, Roads And Highways, Road Path Creator, Light Trails Generator, Curves To Roads, City Road Maker, Next Street, Blender, 3D Modeling, Animation, Rendering, 3D Design, Open Source, Digital Art, Tutorial, Community, Artists, Software, Tools, Textures, Modeling, Sculpting, VFX, Shading, Rigging, Scripting, Grease Pencil, Motion Graphics, UV Mapping, Simulation, Game Development, Physics, Materials, Particles

Id: DzJVpmel0h8

Length: 10min 15sec (615 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 11 2023