Create any City in Blender in 20 Minutes

Blender Tutorial - Learn How to Create 3D Cities Easy and Free!
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[@lemmings6516]

the level of skill, i'm speechless... lemme go back to rotating cubes real quick

[@lillyandfriends7750]

Alright

[@ottrovgeisha2150]

aren't you exaggerating this? Even for just a bit?

[@subatomic3692]

Lmaoo

[@thefullstrikeofficial]

Bro, me too!

[@opshredderytp]

lol

[@HK-sw3vi]

two weeks in, and people are literally creating the outside.

[@TheFireknight12]

Yeah seriously. Someone already generated the entire world in minecraft blocks last week. Are you Ready Player One? hahah

[@JustKwamz]

If I can't go outside mf I'll create one. Damn, I've stooped so low. 😭😭

[@mareksb]

Created a while back, but microsoft flight simulator featuring the entire world also coming out this year

[@rt_w1456]

Do ya blame us

[@letsgamingyt1]

Haha that is so true

[@paristo]

13:30 You can select randomly the buildings by going in menu: Select > Select Random. And you can at bottom left adjust the seed and the parameter how much etc to be selecting. That should make easier to texture quickly lot of buildings.

[@RajeshJustaguy]

that wont work.... some of the faces of 1 building are broken up sometimes so you will not get the whole building selected.... What he was doing when he selected individual buildings was hitting "L" while mouse over the one he wanted...

[@ravencole2740]

I've watched quite a few of your videos and they are often comedic and self-deprecating in a humorous way. However, your skills truly shined through in this one. You definitely rock.

[@stevphiericardo2790]

Create any city in 20 minutes and render it in 1 month

[@brzo.]

or 1-5 hours to render

[@onobeatz4354]

@@brzo. 1 week atleast 😊

[@martianbuilder5945]

It takes a lot less time with Eevee!

[@kai-xi2zh]

@@martianbuilder5945 how do u render with Eevee?

[@martianbuilder5945]

@@kai-xi2zh All you have to do is switch the rendering engine to Eevee. Everything stays almost the same.

[@TheNigaHigaFan4Ever]

If you cant come to the city, you make the city and the city comes to you.

[@decsfishing]

Rohan Gisiawan wow

[@vampirethespiderbatgod9740]

You are great at puns!

[@yemiomotoso9215]

Legend

[@stourleykracklite7663]

In America, you live in city. In Coronavirus, city live in *you.*

[@user-ki4kz7mm4w]

Fact

[@breathespace3042]

"Create any City in Blender in 20 Minutes"... 1 hour later and I still try to texture the roofs...

[@Koolkole27]

Same.

[@nukonuko555555]

3 hour later and I still try to texture the roofs...

[@ikeepgettinbanned5525]

one hour? ive been at it for 8 hours. ive tried 3 cities and now im stuck on the uv editor roofs again. how tf do i resize and scallllleee

[@ikeepgettinbanned5525]

@@nukonuko555555 no lie i didnt scale and resize cuz i couldnt figure it out so it ended up have all the objects askew and so when i went to start clicking indvidual buildings its like way way off.

[@nicholasgibson7595]

@@ikeepgettinbanned5525 any help? I cannot get the scale to fit the roofs at all .....

[@atlanta2076]

WOW! I'm deeply impressed. This is JUST what I've been looking for. It's a ton to unpack, but I'll attempt it. Thank you very much for this tutorial.

[@nekodificador]

Dude, this is pure gold.

[@Lucid0]

Nekodificador Hey Nekodificador, love your videos!

[@zee_zee9439]

@AceBuildz No, It's a video.

[@MrOreek]

Nope

[@__coconut__]

No it's poop

[@wellbeing2193]

only part he missed was adding the AC units to rooftops using node command

[@boomshya8334]

My PC be like, "he better not get motivated by this !!!"

[@Corei7100]

lol. XD

[@kozhinbarznji4764]

Exactly what I thought lol

[@K1NKYG4M3R]

I opened this video and I heard my CPU cry.

[@letsgamingyt1]

My potato will jump out the window rather than rendering this

[@rfxstudios9481]

BrakeDownButterfly it’s not broken then if it works then is it. Plus MacBooks were made for editing and for lasting a lot of years, some people don’t have pcs like that, some people have pcs that can’t even open a file tab in ten minutes. I’m lucky I have a good pc now but I used to have a Lenovo yoga myself and it was the slowest computer that any brand could have made. It wouldn’t even be able to download blender never mind model parts of San Francisco.

[@PaintByMonster]

This right here is one of the reasons I love the internets! Just watching you work and think with Blender is soooooo helpful!! Great video! You're a monster artist!

[@spongebob-urbex742]

I am going to get on this one. Id say it will be a solid weeks work to get this right but I love these. Thanks for everything you do for us it means more than you could ever know.

[@adhvik5498]

Coronavirus: making 3D artists since 2020

[@lasarith2]

Adhvik Balachandar the Athens Marble sculptures looks at you puzzled.

[@udoyrahman4389]

true

[@JKW62873]

Oh yeah lol

[@budgetstylestories8357]

Facts

[@legacylee]

yessir, I started out using photoshop and premiere years ago but then didn't do much with it. Had a hand out learning some coding but was bored and mostly frustrated with it. I'm a former musician and performer so I have a natural creative passion. I'm working on a web series project that I have been developing, it's gonna require some CG to an extent, so I'm learning everything I can, Blender, After Effects, even Unreal Engine. I wanna do the effects myself, I can thank Corridor Digital for the inspiration

[@nickheyer]

It would certainly behoove you to add in a key press window, so we can see what buttons you are pressing as your press them. Your tutorials have an incredible end product, but few of us will ever reach that point without knowing what you are doing exactly.

[@ikeepgettinbanned5525]

fr i am racking my brain trying to figure out how i got the image to texture the walls the first time.

[@chinnimanikrishna9823]

@@ikeepgettinbanned5525 Same dude, how did u do it

[@ikeepgettinbanned5525]

@@chinnimanikrishna9823 i still cant remember lmfao i took a blender break. if u find out lmk

[@chinnimanikrishna9823]

@@ikeepgettinbanned5525 after the cube projections thing, you have to delete the uv map, later you can add. I finally did it

[@messrro]

@@chinnimanikrishna9823 thanks

[@highdatalore2139]

Instead of making different building materials, you can add the "object data" with the random node, so it chooses different building for every object. Also you can make the colors different by changing the hsv

[@aloyminimum]

Someone watching this: Hey, that’s my house

[@thenightsmelody2173]

Is it yours

[@SkymidMusic]

@@thenightsmelody2173 no it's his

[@theoneandonlyrevenant4188]

This couldn't have come at a better time. I've been messing around for a week trying to do this, for the last sequence in my band promo. Thanks for this.

[@StephenBoyd21]

totally amazing. All of your tutorials are just crammed with detail.

[@thewardejitzzz]

Always awesome to watch your videos! Just the intro: “Hope you’re doing great, staying healthy at home and looking forward to a fun project, because that’s what I have for you today.” Keep up making these amazing videos!!!😁

[@gangsterHOTLINE]

I lived in SF for 10 years and you made that city look better than it will ever look in 20 minutes, from satellite imagery and 30,000 air conditioners. You are a brilliant artist man.

[@squishybluecat]

This is honesty an epic way to make a realistic city. I love the final result you got!

[@3dcadtutorials610]

I saw a few videos about creating a building or other small object based an the photo (I even tried that myself!), but recreating a part of the city? It's crazy. Amazing video

[@CGbird]

yesss^^)

[@benibbotson1631]

Thank you for creating this!!!!! Your efforts in making videos like this are very much appreciated in bringing the knowledge to the people!!

[@rebelllion8853]

This is such a great tuto ! Thank you so much for sharing so much technics ! 🙏

[@TheMistbringer]

how to create a city: 1-download a city 2-done

[@gideont1144]

But it cost mony

[@lennycormickalt4223]

Downloading isn't creating

[@slavetislamic1957]

@@lennycormickalt4223 it’s a joke

[@fracturedgamer420]

@@slavetislamic1957 He was being facetious.

[@slavetislamic1957]

@@fracturedgamer420 okay Jason Fisher

[@Loading-tr7yv]

I really liked the way you added in those clouds, I might try that next time I’m in blender

[@declouxa]

im trying to do this right now. Your tutorials are my favorite blenders ones on all of youtube. I have followed many of them , slowly, methodically. much love - from canada

[@badger6807]

nice pfp fellow cnft friend

[@clairet5636]

Wow, this is so incredibly complex. Here I was just looking out of curiosity how to 3D print a city. I guess I’d only need the first half of the video. But this is some mad skill!!!

[@factsnknowledge7658]

THANKS FOR MAKING THIS VIDEO! I WAS LOOKING FORWARD FOR THIS VIDEO FROM MANY DAYS!!

[@zepenthium]

Wow thats rly awesome. Ive tried it by myself and after 2 hours I getting a nice result of my city (home) and with my house (where Im living in). Thats now my wallpaper and looks amazing. Thank u so much. Ive send my image to a print company and create a big poster for my wall. *love it* The textures of my house Ive created with a drone :)

[@macdonaldbeat-kfc863]

May i ask how you scale the roof?its never fit for me

[@eric24g]

If anybody is having trouble on 11:35 where he adds the colorRamp and you're wondering how that viewer above the material output appeared. Simply press ctrl+Shift while pluggin in the texture node into the colorRap (Fac) you will see the viewer node appear.

[@aadi_BB]

thanks :)

[@pz47]

Not all heroes wear capes some wear gloves that mate :)

[@HumanJoseph]

This was awesome, thank you for making this 🙌🏼

[@3d_pablo]

CG Geek: make a city in 20 minutes LazyTutorials: hold my beer

[@yahyarhemmali6716]

true lol

[@LitMadHatter]

Ian Hubert: So you have chosen death

[@andreibalasa745]

CgMatter: So there you go another non-beginner, beginner-friendly tutorial to try while standing upside down on the toilet, I've been cgmatter, you've been you, gu bye

[@jihoparkproduction5858]

Lazy is just timelapse

[@jamikine]

You're honestly the best with blender..

[@a.michaeledwards6441]

Loved the video. Gonna go over it and apply the lessons. One reason for going back is the fact you put it out there pretty fast... perhaps due to the amount of time your giving yourself to get the info out. But to me the delivery is a bit rapid. Otherwise... pure gold man. Keep up the good work... remained blessed!

[@AlanLeeLondon]

This is amazing.. I think i'll try for my home city as a complete beginner!

[@lukasbieri]

For anyone not able to select the rooftops using just the "y" key: just select one roof, hit Shift + G, select "Normal", then hit "P" and select "Selection". Would like to know how you did this Steve, the way you do it is new to me and doesn't work when I try it. Awesome tutorial!

[@CGGeek]

You select the rooftops by clicking select on the Material tab as I did. Then using Y separates the faces in edit mode.

[@IANHIXZ]

@@CGGeek I can see the roof material, but blender is not allowing me to select it.. also cant select the roof with select face in edit mode.. any ideas?

[@IANHIXZ]

hmm I got it to work with Lukas's method but still not sure why I cant select from the material

[@blender2.8user52]

@@IANHIXZ you have to click the right object in the top right. For me, it was map_5.osm_buildings.001. selecting that worked for me

[@jspr49]

you're a lifesaver

[@ranebury]

This tutorial is amazing!! Thank you!!

[@michaelmarch9836]

well done! your tutorials are specific and work!

[@verifiedflix6376]

I was following along the tutoriol and had to stop at how mind blowing it was.

[@theo.jovitch]

Yeah, the pure potential of this process made me build up some anxiety haha. That's just too much power for someone to take it all in at once.

[@gobiswa]

stay safe, stay alert. keep spreading knowledge and smile.

[@carlos321698]

Never

[@samhamsord7942]

May I don't smile when I don't want to?

[@fefek1]

And corona

[@alucard23000]

Dude,Thank you so much for your hard work and sharing, I'll keep following up your videos ... RESPECT from Algeria!

[@karenchow9582]

I appreciate this video so much! As an architecture student trying to juggle 20 different render programs for different projects - thank you!

[@ThreeNugsTall]

Love these tutorials you make. And really nice seeing an updated version of the city. This time around I might follow along and not just watch it. 😜

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[@gauravtiwari7627]

This is exactly what i needed..thanks bro

[@rizuri789]

Man I'm very grateful because you made this video. I love your video

[@greatvedas]

this is wonderful tutorial. Thanks mate.

[@connordolan7459]

Me: "Woah that's awesome I'd like to try that" My computer: *wheeze* "Oh god please no"

[@lemur7546]

My PC: *heavy sweating*

[@lopo8000]

The GPU : heavy screaming

[@baratth727]

@@lopo8000 PC without GPU: *heavy crying*

[@emhkayho]

@@baratth727 Lol.😂

[@bhavesh_unstoppable]

Whats ur PC config in short?

[@baratth727]

@@bhavesh_unstoppable 2gb ram Intel celeron GPU: Na :(

[@ianfromspace4740]

Omg man thank you SO MUCH for this tutorial!!!

[@pankajseth1850]

I watched this without skipping and man it was time spent well!

[@jaimebautista6474]

Awesome tutorial!, Thank you I appreciate your time, experience and talent!

[@Jaz-wb2qt]

Omg this so freaking COOOOOL

[@Katzenha]

This is way too awesome! I will absolutely do this tomorrow! Whooooohoooooo

[@jakovpavlov6268]

Amazing, it comes grat to my project!!! thanks a lot dude!

[@notsure1969]

I can't wait to do this when my new computer comes.

[@sdach3sach167]

Dr. Mantis Toboggan same:)

[@WaterShowsProd]

I was going to have a new computer built, and then suddenly we were shutdown. Now I have to wait until the end of April, and I'm thinking of all the things I have the time but not the computer power to play around with. Oh, wicked, cruel, irony!

[@minimoves7069]

Same:(

[@yourzombiemop8259]

@@WaterShowsProd Teach yourself how to build a 2D game in Unity. It's more rewarding than you think.

[@Bazzemboi]

i know that feeling......................

[@harshdahiya1076]

In my country it is 11: 26 pm now So i will see this video tommorow But till then i am going to leave you a like bcz i know you make good content

[@KingAbodi206]

In my country its 8:59

[@pinywood3077]

Ya but I watched it anyways it's like 12:16 by now

[@babuska922]

In my country 20 : 13

[@goldenpiece7087]

Here I'm watching this video in 1 A.M. because I have nothing to do.

[@arturblack9115]

In my country is 1:07

[@Amandeepsingh1313]

I dont think what people say about you .. FOR ME YOU ARE THE BEST TEACHER

[@IvorPresents]

Build it in twenty minutes, and ten years experience using all the tools. The tutorial is awesome and terrifying, I am just getting a feel for my Photoshop after ten years

[@thisisfine2472]

Me: Trying to make this My computer: *Demonic screeching*

[@KingKong19100]

One of the best tutorials ever. Easy, straight to the point, and it covers EVERYTHING! Two different kinds of fog, UV Editing, Particles, cloud making, HDRs, I love it! Excellent work! One question (it may be really simple and I never figured it out): At 23:47 when you're showing this CG breakdown, how do you render different elements of your scene when it's behind another separate element? I see you're rendering the clouds by themselves, and even though it's at the foreground it is also being covered by some buildings. How did you render the clouds seperately? Again, I know you can restrict visibility in the outliner and check transparent in Film so it doesn't render the sky, but I'm trying to render elements to be blocked by whatever is in the foreground so I can composite easier.

[@KingKong19100]

If anyone needs the answer, I finally found it! It's called using Holdouts, there are videos on it and they are extremely helpful!

[@JustLikeRodney]

I'm glad you had closed captions (yes I am deaf) but you reminded me of math teacher from 44 years ago - God he could talk fast.

[@yiyang4445]

Pure magic right here, gotta learn to do it someday

[@djcrytec7177]

This is just Awesome!!!!

[@hericpan5442]

This takes me about 6 hours to polish lol. Thank you for providing this tutorial.

[@paszczur467]

ja też jestem z polski XD

[@AnhNguyen-cb8be]

Quite a coverage. Thank you!

[@user-hn8ue4rf2t]

Very cool tutorial! THANKS!!!!!

[@konidsw2602]

Its amazing how good this looks considering how much of a hack most of it is

[@CGGeek]

ikr! Sometimes things don't need to take as much time to create as you might expect.

[@steamsteam6607]

It is mastery of the 80-20 rule.

[@DINGOS30]

I know this might be a stupid question but why don't studios use this method to make open world games? it's clearly faster

[@deetvleet]

@@DINGOS30 Because it looks like complete garbage from any a distance closer than 1000 metres. And in open world games you have a character with a free camera that can actually look at the buildings up close. If you walked around this city, it would look worse than a PS1 game

[@DINGOS30]

@@deetvleet thanks for the reply, I'm curious if you've seen the new flight simulator 2020 maps. What do you consider the level of quality is for that game?

[@goldenpiece7087]

CG geek could model any city in 10 minutes. I can't even model a cup that is in my taste in 1 day.

[@3enjamin]

But tbh, he didn't even model any of that, he just download it from online data by an addon which automatically generated the geometry of given city. But texture works and clouds/environments tips are all cool. Nice one

[@DigitalREM]

Great video from start to finish

[@ruisnts88]

This is just mesmerizing :O

[@JohnP587]

I’m a huge city nerd, I’m satisfied

[@JunkBondTrader]

ew don't do that in public

[@JohnP587]

@@JunkBondTrader ?

[@Takishao]

Geek: Create any City in 20 minutes. Me: making it in 2 hrs.

[@deetzi1726]

you are my favorite youtuber for my stuff you just barely explain how to do things and I shouldn't have to look at another tutorial to understand the one I'm watching right now

[@DrivenFromHeaven]

EPIC TUTORIAL, THANK YOU!!!

[@ruskifriend4407]

The best thing is that it's still "low poly" render. Yet it shall destroy most of our PC's

[@AppyTheApe]

Can I do this with my laptop which has AMD R5 3500U in it? I know it's not that powerful just asking for knowledge

[@CGbird]

@@AppyTheApe yes sure. I did render on intel core i3 laptope ahaaah just it was like 12 hours but i did it. Btw i have now new PC and I created my KZbin channel. If you are interested you can check my channel))))

[@CGbird]

ahahaha

[@jameswood3080]

@@CGbird who tf you laughing at

[@akuilaopo3231]

@@CGbird how about i5 10210u?

[@ccost]

no matter what channel why do i always watch blender tutorial videos for no reason

[@iamagoodpersonxiaocked9865]

*goodbye, sketchup. hello, blender and this dude*

[@IsraelNunes_design]

That was super cool, bro. Thx

[@davethebrave2973]

For those who have trouble with the lining the roof textures I have a solution: Firstly, download the image overlay like he did in the video. Next, open up a new blender project, import the terrain again (Without the image overlay). Then, import the image overlay with mapbox STREETS. Now continue with the video and put the roof textures like he did (It should be very easy now with little to no work) (But watch out, my image overlay was bigger than the map that I had selected so some roof textures that are in the image overlay won't apear in the map itself, thus, it will look like you aren't putting the textures on all the roofs but be assured you are).

[@zara4612]

how do i import image overlay

[@davethebrave2973]

@@zara4612 at what stage are you? Have you found a way to import the terrain?

[@DanielTuriman]

Love this tutorial. Even though I'm not using :(

[@konnermcintyre3637]

You’re my new hero! Thank you!

[@fabriziavigna8614]

as usual that's a great tutorial , congrats

[@bohomazdesign725]

Wait a sec. In that way I can build up sick envirements for my 2D animations

[@johnnydelirium4448]

came here for this^^

[@1zeph]

Hey, can you help me? When I'm switching to Bing Satellites it's not showing. Also when I'm done importing the terrain and switch to Viewport Shading there's nothing showing also. Thank you in advance :)

[@jusiyt693]

Same problem

[@shockvavedrums]

wow this is really sick & much brainstormed 👍👋

[@annasantiago8434]

Amazing work!!!

[@DanielHong35]

When I align the top projection with the overlay, I lose accuracy on one area as I drag the UV map over another area. Did you approximate yours?

[@shahmeerali7126]

I have the same issue, did you find a way to fix it?

[@ishaanwankhede8972]

me too bro ,mines worse i cant bring it to the uv map , its fcked up . someone help after selecting ( selection from bounds part)

[@chrisbowman5910]

While watching, I thought there might be a workaround for this.... Once you have your roofs separated, you could duplicate the terrain geometry, then attach to your roof's. Then you project your UVs from the top view to this combined geometry, then tab into edit mode and delete the terrain out of the object (so you're only left with the roofs). I think the roofs texture should now line up perfectly with the terrain. I think. (I've not tried this yet)

[@Infarlock]

Copy this to instagram and say you took it with a drone early in the morning People will believe you

[@ikeepgettinbanned5525]

I DID MANHATTEN AND I FINALLY AFTER 4 DAYS HAVE GOTTEN THE ROOFTOPS TEXTURED. THANK YOU MY MAN. and initially i got the roof pretty easily then i messed everything up and and spent hours running around in circles. i restarted it a few times and viola. getting there.

[@GiPa98]

stunning. Thanks!

[@gone8792]

_It's better not to select a huge chunk of the city because it's gonna take a little longer to render_ **literally renders the entire Watch Dogs 2 map**

[@bryanstone6140]

I like this a lot. A little fast on the dialogue and steps but I can really use this. Great Job, where did you learn so much about Blender?

[@kreativerecords876]

Thanks is Really Great Thank You CG

[@MrSeinfeldFan2]

WAO.... mind blown up... Ja Ja... Love your stuff

[@claystudiofx]

don't forget to lockdown that city.

[@justanameonyourscreen5954]

Haha...

[@NilesBlackX]

Ah, early coronavirus comments Those were the days

[@lowie9828]

@@NilesBlackX oh early corona comment those were the days

[@Tps-hj2ul]

hahah it's funny!!

[@JunkBondTrader]

@@lowie9828 Oh mid to near end covid comments, those... days were actually worse. It's getting better, don't worry past Lowie!

[@frankmichael1317]

Need Help: 6.44, larger buildings: I cant get any further larger buildings - if I repeat the process I get the same buildings as before. What to do?

[@TheEkkas]

Wow. 24minutes for what some would take 2hours for. Love the speed, love the work.

[@theway8389]

His Computer: Ima cooperate with you My computer: SELF DESTRUCTING IN 5 SECONDS

[@GrimGrotStudios]

I am struggling to get the ArcGIS token, once I sign up the token page loads blank, and I have tried different browsers