How to do a Mountain Road - Blender Tutorial

In this Blender Tutorial we are showing how you can cut a road / a street into an existing landscape working in Blender. Therefor we create a special "hybrid topology" for our terrain. This gives you additional benefits like better texturing, good UVs and other stuff.
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[@lbsc_thomas_703]

your original tutorial was a certified classic. this new one is even better. tysm sir

[@XoioDe]

Thanks for the feedback and the appreciation. I might find my way back to some tutorials at some point.

[@JorgeAraujo97]

I've been looking for a good tutorial about roads and yours is by far the best and most simple I've seen. Thank you so much for sharing this.

[@XoioDe]

Glad you like the approach. Good luck with your landscape!

[@nipunprasad]

This is really helpful for most struggling parts (perfect road network in terrain).🖤Thank you!

[@oguzkaancomoglu]

You teach really wonderful beautiful things and it has helped me a lot. Thank you very much for your effort.

[@KrishnaKumar-hp1jd]

Super thanks to this tutorial !!

[@AwesomePxssum]

This is amazing! Thank you

[@akioasakura3624]

I loves your original tutorial. Nostalgia. Thank you!!

[@XoioDe]

Thanks, yes I have been doing this for a while :). Hope I find some time soon again to upload more!

[@gianlozano102]

Was struggling trying to find a good tutorial about roads and terrain, and you've explained it clearly. Thanks! Instantly subscribed.

[@XoioDe]

Glad to hear that! I am currently not doing too many videos but maybe soon again? Good weekend, xoio

[@hlavatskyioleksandr1410]

It is the best method of creating a road I have seen before! Thanks a lot! It is a much easier way than what was shown in 3ds Max 2 years ago.

[@XoioDe]

Thanks, man - this feedback is much appreciated. Honestly took me a while how I could translate the general idea from Max to Blender, since there is no "wild" triangulation generator like the garment maker. But Blender will prevail ;).

[@USBEN.]

Using bool while preserving UVs, very useful technique. Thankyou.

[@abhiraaid]

Amazing, thankyou for the video

[@XoioDe]

You are very welcome!

[@dreadthedrums]

Great video. I too have been playing around with this a bit. Another quick way would be to go top ortho view, edit terrain, knife project with road selected to create edges at the correct transition. You could then seperate out that part of the terrain and sub in your road (they will share edge vertices).

[@XoioDe]

Absolutely - there are many roads (literally) to rome. As said I tried to convert a 3ds-Max workflow we did to Blender. Thanks for the comment!

[@valentincastelo6798]

VERY POWERFUL ! BLESSINGS

[@XoioDe]

Thanks, glad it is useful!

[@pixelpunchyt]

Mario Kart Wii/8 modders watching this like: 🧐📝

[@CasiniLoogi]

I feel called out

[@CGTricks]

Thank you

[@abdulhaadi669]

love your intro

[@XoioDe]

Thanks, man!

[@ayrtonvictor1591]

Muchisimas gracias!!!! Encerio, no puedo enfatizar lo mucho que agradezco este video. Estube buscando algo como esto hace años y porfin lo encuentro.

[@skay1992]

This is like ASMR for professionals

[@Mr_Kisch]

Just want to know when you are going to show us how to texture everything. That would be really nice.

[@jaewonseo2132]

you genius

[@Playlost]

Hi, if you didnt read the instructions, the sensors on your microphone blue yeti are on the front so when the red button is facing you youre having it correctly. it says it in the official guide

[@XoioDe]

Ok, meebee :). Will consider it next time - bought that mike from a friend, so no manuals for me. Thanks!

[@mattiamelara5429]

Hey! I'm trying to create a mountainous road, but I'm getting stuck at the Boolean section as the union doesn't go as planned and nothing significant happens: the extruded portion which goes underground doesn't disappear. I wish I could give you much more detail but I'm quite new to Blender...

[@z1_Rome]

@Xoio Hey, just curious, whats the benefit of the triangle terrain mesh? I made one this way, but am going to try it with a quad terrain. Is it more about being able to merge all the verts in the end easily? Or is there other reasons to use the triangles for the terrain? Thanks in advance

[@phalhappy8612]

you can apply dispalcement and subd modifier on the base terrain and decimate quad, but you'll lose details in some sharp areas. your terrain will apears too smooth. that's why you need to shrinkwrap a lower resolution mesh to a higher one to preserve detail and reduce poligons. but when shrink wrap a low resolution quad mesh you'll have shading issue when it bends in middle of the face. that's why you need triagle before shrinkwrap.

[@rascoon]

i have tried multiple methods of making roads. but not using the skin modifier (atleast not succesfully). i will try this

[@erfanzandi1362]

wow

[@TheCrazyscale]

Brilliant!!!! Been looking for exactly this, I am making a section of real world terrain and this was a pain! Unreal spline road mesh does not handle the edges very well, I would bring the entire terrain as ground mesh into Unreal using this technic, tks a lot!!

[@XoioDe]

Glad this is useful, good luck!

[@TheCrazyscale]

sorry about my silly and noob question. I got it and it works flawlessly! thank you so much for precious tutorial!

[@marcioballmann2174]

Thank you a lot for this tutorial! Could you explain how you did the boolean process? You used some shortcut for the boolean of the terrain with the road wich I can't figure out :(

[@XoioDe]

Sure - it's the Ctrl + Num+ for example or the Num-. As far as i know you need the Hardops/Boxcutter Addon or the Booltools for this to work. But if everything fails you can just apply a bool modifier to the main object and select the secodary object manually in the modifier. Good?

[@marcioballmann2174]

@@XoioDe Thank you! I will try this out and let you know :)

[@-Dan-665]

@@XoioDe hey dude, when I manually do this by adding a boolean too my terrain and then selecting the 2nd object, it does not cut out the terrain along the path I created. Any idea how to fix ?

[@XoioDe]

@@-Dan-665 Hey Killa, hard to tell from afar. Make sure, that your boolean objects are all volumes. Maybe try to move them a little, the boolean might cause problems in certain positions and be corrected when tweaking a little. And if everything fails, just test it with a really simple setup first, so you get familiar with the concept. Good luck!

[@ThomasNeal]

I’m confused about the transition from step 9 to step 10. How the road end up in the air and why did you cut it? Could you please explain what you did because I’m stuck. Then at 15:43 what key did you press to make that come up because your screencastkeys is spotty almost the entire video

[@ThomasNeal]

@niltimespace thank you. it appears this is a rather incomplete tutorial :/

[@Simos-oy9bk]

@@ThomasNeal what's the name of the addon ???

[@Svi3sa]

This is a cool tutorial, but for some reason my decimate and triangulate modifiers won't do anything. I'm just working with a subdivided flat plane, what am I missing?

[@XoioDe]

Don't worry too much, the concept also works with a subd plane. Maybe you are in the edit mode? You only see the result in the object mode.

[@sagarhm2237]

were i can get these 3d model

[@SuzieRussel]

i'm facing a problem with this method, After dissolving the outer edges when i bring the road back to its original height the road is not exactly at the centre but slightly offset and hence it overlaps with the surrounding terrain. it wasnt happening initially but i dont know where i went wrong

[@XoioDe]

Hard to tell from distance. But it seems you moved the road. Can't you push it back looking at it from above?

[@SuzieRussel]

@@XoioDe no, its irreparable, i have to do the track again. in some places its offset to the right and some places to the left. At first I thought it happened because maybe I moved the track up in edit mode before extruding instead of object mode, but it happened in both. I think maybe I took extrusion axis as Z global and not Z normal. So if face normals are bad it can mess up ?

[@SuzieRussel]

@@XoioDe It also happens if I apply boolean modifier on the ground mesh instead of track.mesh

[@XoioDe]

@@SuzieRussel The only thing I can recommend from distance is going back to the step when you extrude the road to the sides with the solidify. Here you should be able to make sure it is right spot on. Additionally the Shrinkwrap might have been the issue, using the wrong projection axis. Good luck!

[@hamidmohamadzade1920]

thank you very very much but after your video, I found a much easier way I used a curve modifier and control the road with it then I used a smooth corrective to fix the terrain it is also procedural and you can control every thing

[@XoioDe]

Hm, need to look into it, but thanks for the feedback!

[@hamidmohamadzade1920]

@@XoioDe if you want i can send you the file

[@trentnoble8051]

Wait, what happened at Step 10? All of a sudden the road is above the terrain and not attached anymore

[@GurvanBHC7]

Please make this little road Assetto Corsa compatible 😮 It will be nice for photo/quick video in game. Thank you for the video

[@XoioDe]

haha, did not even know the game. Well now you know how to do it - you can do it yourself and take all the pride ;) !

[@GurvanBHC7]

@@XoioDe Yes i hope lol. I try to learn step by step

[@5th_Vertex]

Hey friend! Thank you very much for the tutorial! Looks like it is much easier to do in blender than 3dmax... Or i am wrong?

[@XoioDe]

Hm, not so sure. The tools are quite different so I had to tweak the workflow quite a bit to find a fitting approach. Hope you can use it !

[@5th_Vertex]

@@XoioDe This is one of the useful tutorial ive seen i a while! Thanks again.

[@muneebchangezi1658]

Please Tell me how you made those lines for road.. I'm using different tools but could'nt get to it

[@XoioDe]

These are simple geometry edges. You can either create a plane and start extruding a corner ( and erase the plane later) or use a curve and convert to mesh.

[@muneebchangezi1658]

@@XoioDe Bro, I Finally found your tutorial on how to make road on terrain.. it helps pretty much.. thank you.

[@hardway777]

Liked. Subscribed. Commented.

[@AlbiMarza63]

Gorgeous video! May I ask what program do you use to record you audio?

[@XoioDe]

I guess I used the Screenrecorder flashback for this, too. So I could get synchronized video+ audio. It's a Yeti podcast 🎤 microphone, that makes a lot of difference.

[@AlbiMarza63]

@@XoioDe Thank you!

[@MKHideOut]

So confused on how UVs work, I need to make all my materials and textures inside Blender, but I need them all exported for third party applications... I never render anything within Blender...

[@XoioDe]

UVing is a science by itself. There are some addons in Blender which might help and with packing. Fortunately Blender's algorythms are pretty fast. I come from Max and some steps take ages. Good luck, man!

[@jorgegonzalez1803]

this methodology works to generate a track for asseto corsa?

[@romeocurziRP]

Yes, but the Road and the Terrain need to be 2 different mesh'. There's a tutorial which uses a similar method.

[@romeocurziRP]

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[@P1sangCheese]

please add auto subtitle pls

[@velocity.motion]

There is easy methode to create road

[@amrindersingh2094]

my blender loading while step 0🙂🙂

[@oneanalysis1]

why triangulate?

[@XoioDe]

Triangulating your terrain is optional. In certain cases I actually find "wild triangulation" of terrains has certain advantages: You don't see recurring patterns of loops, it's quite easy to densify in locations, ...

[@Omei3D]

yea this doesnt work theres so many gaps in your tutorial like step 9 and 10 where you didnt explain how to join the mesh booleen together when cutting

[@antonioandrearq]

that road is kind Formula 1 cars track. Is there any method to make road more planar and real please?

[@XoioDe]

Hi Antonio. Not really sure, what you mean. If you are not happy with the road layout, then change it :). And if this is too many mountains for you, then pick a more subtle terrain. If you do it right the road should not be tilted, if that's the issue. The process should be working for many different terrain types.

[@ravithapa1161]

Am i only one who could not follow along after 13.34

[@kodiaktimbercraft3939]

I too had an issue right there, the road mesh is now separated from and above the terrain object, but he didn't show how he got there...I was wondering at first if this was the copied road object that was made earlier but it does not look like that's the case. did he disable the shrink wrap modifier on the terrain temporarily in order to do this step? if you just move the road mesh up like this, the terrain will be distorted along with it which is not what we want. does anyone know what happened at this point to go from where we were a few seconds ago to where we are at this point?

[@kodiaktimbercraft3939]

Or perhaps he applied the shrink wrap modifier so the road mesh could be moved without the modifier adjusting for it? Its hard to tell if the terrain still has the deformations made by the shrink wrap as they are pretty subtle

[@kodiaktimbercraft3939]

Yes, I think that's exactly what he did even though it was not mentioned anywhere. At about 14:16 he clicks on the terrain again with the modifiers view open and you can see the shrink wrap modifier, the one where he terrain is shrink wrapped to the road, is not in the list any more. so likely that's how you get there. Apply that shrink wrap and then the road can be moved up for the next step where both objects are extruded for the upcoming boolean operations.

[@zhonglouis]

没有字幕，，，，

[@XoioDe]

? Can you respond in English ?

[@zhonglouis]

@@XoioDe Your video has no subtitles, it's as if you can't read Chinese now. With subtitles if possible. thanks. Want to learn how to make mods

[@XoioDe]

@@zhonglouis Ah, ok. Sorry, making these videos takes a while and subtitles would be even a lot of extra work. I hope you understand.

[@zhonglouis]

@@XoioDe I understand very well. I am very interested in the knowledge you shared, but without subtitles, I cannot understand some people who speak at a relatively fast speed. In China, no one does the teaching of your video content, and I am a beginner again. Your video case fits the scene I want to use as a game track. Thanks for the knowledge you share.

[@XoioDe]

@@zhonglouis Thanks for letting me know - I will look into options for the future how to add subtitles, ok? Take care, P.