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Hello, I am currently interested in creating roads and intersections, and I am making a new plugin to manage that. I realized that there were a good number of possibilities for intersections, and I would like to make the most flexible plugin so that it could adapt to any situation Here is my progress and the current features, I post on a WIP because I think there will be lots of special cases that I haven't thought of and I would like to be able to manage them. First, the road are defined by splines : The plugin generate textured road polygons from the splines. It also add a line on both sides of the road : If two points of the splines are close enough, they will be magnetized : If two or more spline points are close enough, the splines are unite into one road of two lanes, the material of the line changes : If the direction of the splines are different, the material of the line changes (defined by the user) : We can add many lines in any directions : A twist in the spline affect the road path : We can disconnect and reconnect the lanes by moving the spline points : The line material will try to match as possible (still work to do here) : A preview oif the setup and wireframe in C4D : The road is a object with two UVW tags and some polygons selections to dissociate the lines : The next step will be the intersections. For the moment I develop it as a C4D plugin but I think it will also be an online tool with some exports options. I'm based on European roads for the moment, but I would like to look at signs from other countries to see the differences. Looking up for your comments and suggestions !

New update : - We can now draw a single line for specific usage (not necessarily a lane) - The shear line can be adjusted - New arrow textures - Centripetal interpolation improved at the end points https://code.vonc.fr/roadmaker

Thanks ! New update with a big performance improvement and we can now add markings on the road like arrows : https://code.vonc.fr/roadmaker

That looks awesome! web version i guess will be useful to people outside c4d 🙂 good call!

Hello, Here is an update after a long time, I finally decided to make an online tool instead of a C4D plugin. There is still a lot of things to do, but the main engine is ok and you can test it, the export to OBJ should work too. Here is the very first "private" beta version : https://code.vonc.fr/roadmaker (the textures loading can be a bit long the first time) I would be glad to have feedbacks, bug reports, ideas that you would like to add, UI suggestions, and if you want to contribuate with textures feel free to !

soory not lines, but Lanes.

UV are done !

Looks complete to me. What's left ? Sidewalks ? Columns for bridges ? Traffic lights ? Crosswalks ?

Sorry for the double post, but I am so glad to show you the first test of a roundabout !