Godot Road Generator Add-On Review/Tutorial

Road Generator is an in development add-on for the Godot game engine. It does exactly what the name says on the tin, it creates roads. It is under the MIT license, its currently for Godot 3.x but is going to be ported to Godot 4.x shortly.
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[@TheDuckCow]

So honored you made a tutorial for our plugin - you even beat me to making my own haha! I was waiting for this v0.4.0, but very happy you showed off the dev branch. Regarding the kinking, it's a design choice that each RoadPoint is a Spatial at the base level - so rotate it like you would any other 3D object to get it pointed as you like! (That being said, we're working on making a nicer "continue the bend" initial rotation) Can't wait to see what you all make with it, and indeed, give us the strength to get intersection sorted so we can roll out the Godot 4 version!

[@TheKindKitten]

I know mate! It's super exciting to see! Also I'm loving the games people are showing they used the plugin for! Thank you @gamefromscratch, also! :3x

[@ryanscott642]

Great to see really useful plugins like this one! I'm using splines for a railroad and it's a pain to work with, this looks a lot easier to use.

[@kraig800i]

Has it been pulled from the asset library? I can't seem to find it 😢

[@TheDuckCow]

@@kraig800i so far it's only been published to the 3.5 asset library, for Godot 4 you need to install specifically our experimental Godot 4 branch

[@kraig800i]

@@TheDuckCow oh okay, I thought Godot pulled them all from the same library and if it worked was a little game in and of itself. I just installed waterways via the asset library and it flat out refused when I tried to enable it in the project settings.

[@ResetUE]

Man im thankful im learning godot as my first engine, simple yet powerful and still getting new stuff!

[@4.0.4]

I'm loving it too, everything just makes sense. I was worried I wouldn't like GDScript but it's super nice too, doesn't feel Rube Goldberg like Python.

[@ResetUE]

@4.0.4 That's so true while i was worried about the same part, but language was a relief

[@stephenharperisgay]

​@@4.0.4haha just you wait till your game gets complex lol

[@darthtechnologies553]

Dont get to caught up in engines! Learn the concepts that make up the engine. The vulkan rendering engine can render what ever you can build and or imagine.

[@ResetUE]

@darthtechnologies553 could you elaborate? Im still new in this field but im working my hardest on understanding the basics

[@owdoogames]

1:35 Just one more lane! That’ll fix traffic! 😉

[@dueddel]

That plugin should have been named "Roadot".

[@TheKindKitten]

That's pretty funny,haha XD

[@dueddel]

That was my intention, apparently. 😆@@TheKindKitten

[@Xero_Wolf]

One of the better quality road generators I've seen. A lass they're all missing the ability to do branching and intersections effectively.

[@TheDuckCow]

Thanks for the kind words! We spent a bunch of time researching the UX choices and tradeoffs of other road plugins for Unity and Unreal, and we came up with a simple conclusion: Godot deserves the very best of all worlds!

[@SaiponathGames]

We had implemented intersections earlier but we did not finish our game.

[@KarriKoivusalo]

Godot is clearly building up steam. This is good.

[@ofAwxen]

and it's on Steam... so there's that...

[@OtherRath]

Now all we need is a city generator

[@wangtang32000]

this was specifically what i was looking for! thanks!

[@playstuff5782]

Godot wheel node needs work. Doesnt support sideways slip / friction

[@RuddsReels]

2:14 - Looks good, but it's a shame the broken lane lines are different lengths. it makes the roads look fake.

[@in-craig-ible6160]

More tools for GoDot. Awesome stuff.

[@ZeldaACFan17]

This is nice, but I wish there was a version for race tracks 🤔 Race tracks are what I want to make

[@johnjohnson7500]

Greatest engine out there

[@Robert-rg7eu]

This is just splining. The built-in csg nodes can already do this. It doesn't seem like this can do intersections, which is the minimum a road tool needs to be useful.

[@johanngambolputty5351]

I just wanted to acknowledge the great title, that is all.

[@MartyJames23]

This will speed up my project. :)

[@Wrobot]

Seems cool!

[@lemovision]

Roads? Where we go tho we don't need roads

[@Aragubas]

that's so cool!

[@sanketsbrush]

Bruh ! I just finished making my own road plugin because there was no plugin to download. Just saw your video in recommendations. How unlucky I am . What a waste of time 🤦‍♂.

[@KingThrillgore]

Just last week I imported all the Kenney road tiles. UGH

[@SaiponathGames]

We actually implemented road system before them.

[@SaiponathGames]

It is just that we did not have the funding nor the time to build the models and textures.

[@TheDuckCow]

Hey@@SaiponathGames can't remember, did we already chat separately (on Twitter?) I'm a big believer of sharing ideas and, where people are open to it, joining forces. This godot road generator project is open source for a reason, so maybe there's some part of your approach that could live on or be integrated?

[@vilosworld2377]

Made it ✌️

[@NeoShameMan]

If someone tell me how i can render to cubemap in real time, or at least pick 6 texture to form cubemap in realtime

[@zeon137]

Man I wish I could like godot but after so many years of Unreal and Unity, the brainrot is too strong...

[@SuperZymantas]

My kid is growing definatlyy he will not learn Unity i will make sure it will happen!

[@Boildroid]

godot become godd as far as it go