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Just merged: traffic lanes for procedural intersection, yet another community edition! Really love it when contributors come along and are so open to feedback and going through the iterations to make something just work great like this. #godot #plugin

Blender 5.2 LTS has reached Release Candidate! 🚀 Now's the time to put it to the test and report any issues. Let's make this release as stable as possible! ⬇️ Download: builder.blender.org/download/dai... #b3d

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Continuous build delivery with the latest features and fixes. Use at your own risk!

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On a binge to try every #godot vehicle/car physics template/addon, to compare them + my own prior attempts. Anyone have any favorites? Made your own car controller? Just using stock Vehiclebody 3D? (GEVP pictured here, one I've liked more so far, placed into Road Generator demo scenes)

Definitely my favorite from this year's vintage car show

A miniature roadster car that looks like it was made from a tricycle build.

Very impressive LOD/streaming demo in #godot, also happens to be a wild encounter of the road generator addon! Curious what they did to get it all to fit together, and also getting more exciting to take a crack at the render server myself sometime soon www.reddit.com/r/godot/comm...

From the godot community on Reddit: Seamless World Streaming in Godot with per-LOD asset streaming

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Climate.us @climate.us · 2mo ago

Got changelogs credit last month for a contribution I made to another addon - said change was from... *checks notes* 2017?! haha I guess they just happened to revive it for Blender 5.x for a random project github.com/leomoon-stud...

Release v2.0.0 · leomoon-studios/leomoon-textcounter

What's Changed Theduckcow update by @TheDuckCow in #2 1.4.0 by @StyriamMZ in #11 New Contributors @TheDuckCow made their first contribution in #2 @StyriamMZ made their first contribution in #11 ...

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Love that feeling of finding a bug (a crashing one, no less!), reporting it, and the devs fixing it with 3 days. A real "I'm doing my part" moment, esp. since it affects the #blender addon dev I'm doing. Would've had to deal with workarounds or user warnings 😁 projects.blender.org/blender/blen...

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Very happy someone is taking on the challenge of procedural intersection lane connections. My brain is now not so happy after spending all this time thinking through the simplest yet robust approach to give 🤪 let's see if this still makes sense to me tomorrow morning github.com/TheDuckCow/g...

Draw over a first pass of procedural lanes for proposed corrections

Algorithm idea for how default "next lanes" are determined for the whole edge of lanes of an intersection at a time, using an angle reference

Wheel Steal Game @wheelstealgame.com · 2mo ago

Oh neat, I just now realized there are badges on the #Blender project/source control site, I've even collected a few over the years. Throwback to the Blender rocket ship, I've actually still got mine!

Screenshot of badges, including "Blender Studio Subscriber", "Donated towards the Blender 2.8 Code Quest" which is currently show this hover tooltip, "Supported the open movie Charge", and "Supported the open movie "Sprite Fright"

What's this, a new devlog dropped?! Has some great #godot Road Generator updates with fun visuals, check it out: www.patreon.com/WheelStealGa...

June Devlog | Wheel Steal Game

Hello Wheelers! An exciting devlog is here to showcase some recent "road construction work" that's just wrapped up. Two Road Generator updat

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Testing for the next road generator patch, doing some quick spot checking with the Terrain3D integration in #Godot 4.7 - looking smooth!

Screenshot of the road generator and terrain3D integration, with an intersection about to create another branch

Walaber @walaber.com · 2mo ago

aint_much_but_honest_work.gif Improving the UX of working with intersections one paper cut at a time. Here, you can now connect points between different RoadContainers and maintain their proper "connected" states. #godot #addon More here: github.com/TheDuckCow/g...

🛻🆚🪑it's time! (to drive a 4x4 in a Furniture Store) PLEASE spread the word the demo is OUT NOW, and let me know what you think of it 😍 s.team/a/4135570

Finally got around to adding visuals to the Road Generator getting started tutorial, that was well overdue: github.com/TheDuckCow/g...

A getting started tutorial

A Godot plugin for creating 3D highways/streets and lane-following traffic - TheDuckCow/godot-road-generator

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Trying to improve intersections QoL. Briefly thought it'd be nice to auto-insert a mid-point intersection node on conversion (ie first try on the left side, where I simulate adding a point in the middle), but makes less sense on right side despite being the same node layout just rotated slightly 🤔

Rotty Kato@rottykato.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I did get a chuckle that Blender's the wild card, free alternative to everything? Nothing? Spacetime?

These are alternatives to subscription based programs. #free #subscription #save

That sad moment when, after all your attempts, you finally give up 🫠 github.com/TheDuckCow/g... But in more exciting/related news, this was the last thing I was *trying* to get into this release, so v0.9.1 of the #godot road generator #addon will be coming out today.

TheDuckCow@theduckcow.com · 3mo ago

... ok, what's the best intuitive name for this feature? - Bake RoadLanes (as is) - Make RoadLanes editable (kinda long?) - Expose RoadLanes (scandalous!) - Add RoadLane Children (confusing vs the on/off lane toggle?) - Persist RoadLanes (maybe??) - Convert RoadLanes (seems like the wrong verb)

Next feature: Bake RoadLanes! The addon's generated Path3D lanes are usually invisible in the editor to prevent you from messing with exact alignments, but sometimes you need to override them (aka me rn with roundabouts). Now you can! It even lets you have a mix of overridden/auto lanes. (No PR yet)

Dropdown showing the Bake RoadLanes button resulting in RoadLanes now visible in the scene - in this case, I had after the after the fact re-enabled the generate lanes feature and only kept these three to remain overridden.

Incoming: a small 🧵 of #godot Road Generators improvements inbound! First up - a much improved RoadLane visual for car-following paths (comes with a notable performance boost bonus, too). Merged to dev: github.com/TheDuckCow/g...

Left: vertical fins are more spaced out and hard to see at top-down angles.
Right: 3D triangles are more densely spaced and easy to see from all angles, with clearer start/end colors

It's hard balancing promoting your own tools while acknowledging shortcomings, but sometimes you just gotta call it out. The #godot Road Generator indeed has flexible procedural intersections, but has awkward UX issues. Join the chat and see what I'm proposing here: github.com/TheDuckCow/g...

Improve Intersection UX paint points · Issue #365 · TheDuckCow/godot-road-generator

Though we already have this ticket summarizing a number of issues, I wanted to specifically collect the current paint points and papercuts of working with procedural intersections, now that they ex...

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Heyo, the #Godot Road Generator is now on the [beta] asset store! Would love to get reviews from any current users, even if it's critical 😁 just takes a sign in, thumbs up/down, and an optional comment: store.godotengine.org/asset/theduc...

Road Generator - Godot Asset Store

Plugin to create procedural 3D roads, streets, and highways complete with intersections, path-follow lanes, and custom mesh support.

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Wheel Steal Game@wheelstealgame.com · 3mo ago

How my evening went: 1. Really need to finish rigging this car model we finished awhile ago 2. Now to test extreme poses 3. *moves top back* Oo looks like it's blowing away, could be fun to animate.... 4. Sometime later, posts render Animation is fun, should do little ones like this more often.

Hatchback. Flutters in air. Windswept.

Was very excited to sign up for the Godot asset store! But now my username is stuck in limbo 😭 Pressing reset password for my username *does* generate new password email, but the email it's linked to must be tied to a new account I accidentally started creating, saying my username isn't available.

Made this feature after sitting in the back of my head for awhile. If you've setup a reusable *custom* mesh for a road segment/intersection, you can now set its material by specifying the meshes to influence. Makes it easy to reuse prefabs for different settings.