NEW Addon! Finally create detailed Roads & Bridges in MINUTES, not DAYS

[@NN_86]

Bruh! This what i need 5 years ago

[@philhighfield4741]

wow, amazing work! Love the procedural workflow. Personally for me would like to see some roundabouts as here in UK we loooooove roundabouts :D

[@Roads_Must_Roll]

Haha, thanks! 😊 Yes, roundabouts are on the to-do list for one of the upcoming updates. It could take a bit of time, but they’re definitely coming. :)

[@don-baco]

Look what casually gets dropped like a bombshell. This guy is a legend.

[@Roads_Must_Roll]

Thank you! 🙂

[@ddmorales]

Insane, makes me wish I worked on projects that needs roads!

[@Roads_Must_Roll]

Haha, thanks! 🙂

[@juanblanco7449]

i NOW rename you "THE ROAD god". awesome work.

[@Roads_Must_Roll]

Hahah, thanks! :-)

[@IvayloGogov]

Hey Peter, you have done an amazing job with your add-on. Congratulation. Definitely i will recommend your work. Impressive details. This is what we need. Thank you!

[@Roads_Must_Roll]

Hi Ivaylo, thank you very much! :-) That's great to hear. You're very welcome!

[@yavuzyener3D]

this looks amazing! one of the best addon releases in recent years and exactly what I've been looking for! I'll definitely check it out.

[@Roads_Must_Roll]

Hi Yavuz, thank you very much. That's very nice to hear! :-)

[@rodrigosouza3d]

My brother, what an incredible job. Honestly, it's one of the most excellent jobs I've ever done. Congratulations and thanks for sharing. Looking forward to having access to all the resources.

[@Roads_Must_Roll]

Hi Rodrigo. Thank you very much! :-)

[@Fazoway]

The division of roads into smaller roads was done very cool.👌👌

[@Roads_Must_Roll]

Hi Fazoway, thanks you very much for your comment! :-)

[@framex_media]

incredible work, congrats!!! Just amazing

[@Roads_Must_Roll]

Thanks Alejandro! 😀

[@DarzaLeuven]

Great work and deserves to be the best ever.

[@Roads_Must_Roll]

Thanks! ☺

[@bushboy567]

Stupendous Work! Can also later expand this to railways and waterways and mining tunnels? You have made a beautifully presented and charming video presentation which has been a delight to watch. Wish you every success in this venture.

[@Roads_Must_Roll]

Hi, thank you very much for your heartwarming comment! :-) It's nice to hear that. Mining tunnels are an interesting idea I hadn't considered before. It would definitely be fun to expand into waterways and railways one day. Thanks again and wishing you a great day!

[@JaridMitchell]

This is amazing! Going to buy this! You should make a version or addon for parking lots and one for airports/taxiways! I would buy anything similar to this as well!

[@Roads_Must_Roll]

Thanks! :-) That's nice to hear. Yes, that's a cool idea. I was also thinking about making monorails and train tracks at some point. :-)

[@Mr.Doruko]

Amazing work. I wish you continued success.I hope I can buy it, the dollar exchange rate is crazy in my country.

[@Roads_Must_Roll]

Thank you very much! 🙂

[@MaleFeetLoverSpain]

WOW!!! This is really incredibly awesome and amazing, so professional and ver high quality and carefully created to offer all the huge amount of available features that make it such an perfect addon that so useful and interesting, t

[@Roads_Must_Roll]

Thank you very much for this kind comment! :-)

[@andrewdeacon4384]

Brilliant work. Can the cars drive on the left as in UK, Australia etc?

[@Roads_Must_Roll]

Thanks! 🙂 Yes, they can! :) You can change the direction of the cars per lane. You can also flip the direction of the panels on the overhead signs.

[@VoscopDesign]

Great Job, congratulation ❤

[@Roads_Must_Roll]

Thank you very much! 🙂

[@amasun13]

Great

[@Roads_Must_Roll]

Thanks!

[@MAQUETTE3DSTUDIO-zk2tg]

GREAT ! very useful addon for us

[@Roads_Must_Roll]

Thanks! That's very nice to hear! 🙂

[@euclois]

great work!

[@Roads_Must_Roll]

Thanks a lot!

[@shimmuus]

This is amazing 🤩

[@Roads_Must_Roll]

Thank you! 🙂

[@Chef_PC]

This is amazing!

[@Roads_Must_Roll]

Thanks! 🙂

[@razern420]

These kind of addons is really helpful for west region and also its one way to make money too haha!

[@Roads_Must_Roll]

Hi there! Adapting it for different parts of the world is something I’d love to explore in the future, but it’s a lot of work. If I can earn some money from it, that would help me find the time to make these updates happen. ;-)

[@usmansalmaan4956]

Really great work and very professional, if I purchase the Portfolio Version, can I use it in the KZbin videos I plan to create?

[@Roads_Must_Roll]

Thank you very much! :-) It depends I would say: do you make these KZbin videos for a client or do you earn a significant amount of money with your channel?

[@usmansalmaan4956]

@Roads_Must_Roll thanks for responding and once again kudos on the awesome work you have done, well I plan to make a KZbin channel for my self, to create some content funny stuff, and was planning on using blender to create these animations, while searching for plug-ins for roads came across some good ones including yours, which is at the top of the list for me, I hope I was able to convey my point, no it's not for any client but for myself, nor would this be used in every video that I plan to make, thanks again

[@Roads_Must_Roll]

@@usmansalmaan4956 Hi there! In your case, unless you would have a KZbin channel with thousands of subscribers and you make a couple of hundred of euros per month with that, the Portfolio version is ok. If you would want to make commercial work with it later, you can always upgrade to the small studio version later on. Blender Market will subtract the amount you already paid in that case. Hope this helps. If you have any other questions, don't hesitate to reach out. Kind regards, Pieter

[@alpioozen]

would be amazing if I could export this as fbx or obj with baked textures. would be an instant buy.

[@Roads_Must_Roll]

Hi! Yes, it would indeed be very nice if that would be possible. It seems like this will be a big a task, so I hope that this is something I can work on somewhere in the future. Thanks for your feedback!

[@LorenzoEvangelisti]

Thank you!!!

[@Roads_Must_Roll]

You're welcome! 🙂

[@karibaevulan]

thanks it is great

[@Roads_Must_Roll]

That's nice to hear. You're welcome!

[@bakriomar365]

This is amazing

[@Roads_Must_Roll]

Thanks Bakri! :-)

[@bakriomar365]

@@Roads_Must_Roll You are very welcome, I'm getting it for sure :)

[@Astopia]

@@bakriomar365 That's nice to hear! :-)

[@nobleengine]

This is very fun.

[@Roads_Must_Roll]

Thanks! :-)

[@LeandroDelSanto]

I have the Lauch Control addon, it can be use to anime my car animation on these roads? (it is similar to rigacar)...

[@Roads_Must_Roll]

Hi Leandro, Launch Control looks like a great add-on! I haven’t used it myself, but I assume you’ll need a mesh for your car to drive on. This means you’ll need to make a copy of the road, convert that copy to a mesh, and disable its visibility in renders. You can find instructions on how to do this in the FAQ on my website: theroadsmustroll.com/docs/

[@lestatluchalibre]

you need to add spot lights on the cars so looks more realistic, each car with its own spot lights...

[@Roads_Must_Roll]

Thanks for your feedback. That is something I considered at some point and I will have to do some testing with that. It would be 4 spotlights per car. So if you have 200 cars, that's 800 spotlights. I'm afraid it will slow down everything too much. It will need testing.

[@dariakovtun9121]

Is it possible to use with Blender Octane?

[@Roads_Must_Roll]

Hi Daria, I have never used Octane, so I don't really know. The materials I use are always based on textures with a lot of shader nodes on top of it. These shader nodes are also connected to geometry nodes. So if Octane uses it's own shader system, I'm guessing that it would not be able to convert all of this?

[@LXAMStudios]

You wear the shirt of Vietnam right?

[@Roads_Must_Roll]

Haha, yes indeed! :-) I did some volunteer work in Vietnam in 2002.

[@LXAMStudios]

@@Roads_Must_Roll Oh i'm from Vietnam with love

[@kenwong5807]

road can add puddle water texture

[@Roads_Must_Roll]

Hi! I'm currently working on that. This will be for the next update.

[@veewinch]

City Skylines disliked this.

[@Roads_Must_Roll]

Hah :-)

[@Ladamshify]

Wouaho ! Congrats for all this work, it looks amazing ! Is it possible to buy the personal licence then upgrade to commercial one with the personal version price deducted or will I have to rebuy the whole price ? Also, I saw your comment about the roads not being convertible to meshes. This addon won't be useful for me without it as I need to export roads to a game engine. I easily converted geometry nodes in the past by simply adding a "Realize Instances" node before the last one. Like this : kzbin.info/www/bejne/noSvdmSjlraKr8ksi=OHJxExInH8J8HC0U&t=86. Wouldn't that work on your nodes ? A huge thank for your time. Keep up that awesome work !

[@Roads_Must_Roll]

Thank you very much!🙂 Yes, absolutely. When you buy the personal license first, Blender Market will automatically subtract the already paid amount from the amount you'll still have to pay for the commercial license. As for exporting, I ran some tests, and you were spot on - thanks for the heads-up! The only catch is that a few material elements don't convert perfectly. I’ve updated the FAQ to reflect this: theroadsmustroll.com/docs/#faq I also tried exporting as an .fbx to Unreal Engine - the mesh came through just fine, but the materials didn’t convert as expected. I think I will have to dig a little deeper for this to work.

[@Ladamshify]

​@@Roads_Must_Roll Awesome news ! Thanks a ton, I'll buy it real soon then. For the materials, indeed the only materials exportable to game engines are the ones using only simple princple bsdf node if I recall correctly. The typical workflow is to export only the meshes and all textures (albedo, normal, metal, etc) and create all materials directly in the game engine. You won't be able to import any other materials type from blender afaik. So if you want to simplify the process for game engine exports, you could create a version that only use simple materials. But even without these modification, I should be able to modify the materials and export the textures myself. I'll do some tests as soon as I'll buy it. Would you like me to keep you updated ? I can send you the working materials if I have successful results. Or if you want to pm me to know more about gamedev workflow, I can hit you up on your website mail. Thanks again ! edit : I just read the faq. For the white lines and such, I think there's no other choice than to generate meshes too for them and place them a little above their respective surface (to prevent z fighting) and apply a simple white material on them. I don't see a better option right now as we can't bake the whole road texture, it'd be a waste of ram, storage and perfs for realtime apps like games, and we can't export them as decals either afaik but I'll have to dig on how you create these lines in the first place to see better. I could also bake just a small portion of the road and repeat it along the rest. Or recreate simple lines myself using the initial curve. In the worst case, I'll just skip it and apply my own textures with lines to the road meshes.

[@Roads_Must_Roll]

@@Ladamshify That's nice to hear! It would be really cool if you could keep me up to date about that. (my email address is on the website). Initially I created the white lines on the road as geometry in geometry nodes. So I could potentially integrate that again and give it as an option. That way you could use those to create a texture in Unreal with projection mapping perhaps? So that you could delete the white lines mesh again afterwards. (I have no experience with Unreal for the moment) Thanks! :-)

[@Ladamshify]

​@@Roads_Must_Roll Allright, will do. I just bought it rn. Excited to look that up ! White lines as geometry would be great. Any gamedev could handle the rest themselves with this. There's indeed several technics that could be used. But even the lazy way by just keeping geometry would be okay, today's gpus can handle lots of triangles, and we can also cull the geometry that is outside of camera view so, it'll be fine. Little side note : I'm experienced with Unity, but it's mostly the same technics used in both UE and Unity.

[@Roads_Must_Roll]

@@Ladamshify That's great to hear! :-) Please let me know if you have any questions.

[@velocity.motion]

amazing addon by the way

[@Roads_Must_Roll]

Thanks! 😀

[@velocity.motion]

can i convert the road to mesh? , bcz i wanna do manual animation of my car on the road

[@Roads_Must_Roll]

Hi, converting the road to a mesh is possible, but currently with a few limitations, see the faq: theroadsmustroll.com/docs/#faq This is definitely something to have a look at in the future. It would be nice if this is possible. Concerning the possibility to animate your car manually: I'm not sure which method you want to use for animating your car, but it all depends on the complexity of what you want to do I think. If the roads are all level (a flat surface) there shouldn't be an issue as long as you don't want to make the car bounce against barriers and borders and such. If the road goes up and down as well, you can use the same curve that is used to create the road, to animate your car. Then again: if you want to do more funky stuff (lane changing, ...) on roads that go up and down, I'm not sure how to do that for the moment.

[@velocity.motion]

@@Roads_Must_Roll thank you for reply , maybe i will buy it and i will try with flat plan

[@katrienwouters-i7n]

Wow machtig!!

[@Roads_Must_Roll]

@@velocity.motion Actually, as @ladamshify pointed out, you can convert the road to a mesh. Just keep in mind that a few material elements won’t convert - I’ve outlined the steps and details in the FAQ here: theroadsmustroll.com/docs/#faq