Assets SENTIERI - [BETA 0.5] - Terrain Procedural Path Creator for Roads, Rivers and more

It doesn't integrate with v3 by default?

 

Off to a great start. I just hope that this new tool doesn't use up alot of computer power causing it to crash frequently. I remember using the spline tool in UE4 to create roads and my personal pc as well as ones in the college labs, were slowing down expeditiously, especially when creating a road using the same spline. I hope they wasn't expecting me to set up multiple splines. Maybe I just need to purchase a super computer, before deciding on creating a 3D game again. In the meantime, my team is creating a 2D game. Check out my forum on here!

 

Yes, it is. but now I have even included a basic system to transform track to road or river.
That is for who does not own ERv3

 

No supercomputer and no crash.. I will release a limited free version so users can test the tool before buy

 

Hey guys ....
I have just cooked up a the terrain blending from edit view .... thankand it is going to work . It's working in progress by I have just recorded a small video .. So .. please bear in mind that I have to improve but that's a good starting point ...so please do mot focus on quality ...just the idea behaind that feature ..
oohh . by the way .. the road in the video is created out of box the my tool, without any other asset ...quite fast and smart ..
More features are coming ...Please feel free to share feedback and suggestion ...you can even use that https://trello.com/b/0Q7gsJiS/wip-terrain-procedural-track-creator-for-roads-rivers-and-more

Cheers,
Antonio

 

Just happened ...I got junctions ... with procedural mesh generator ...I moved from ideas to Development ...
It will be a part of Beta ... I apologize, but I would postpone the release to include that feature, I consider really innovative ...

https://trello.com/b/0Q7gsJiS/wip-terrain-procedural-track-creator-for-roads-rivers-and-more

 

Hey guys ...
the basement for junction works smoothly ...The mesh creation is switched of becuase I have not started the procedural creation for the junction .. but from the video you can have a right idea ...Tomorrow I am gonna start with the procedual creation of junction .. how long is gonna take ? .. no idea .. let's see tomorrow ...cheers.

 

I'm excited to see how mesh creation will work with junctions, nice work.

 

He guys ..
You can monitor the WIP on Trello ... I update that every EOD

https://trello.com/b/0Q7gsJiS/wip-terrain-procedural-track-creator-for-roads-rivers-and-more

 

Subscribed to updates and watching! Keep up the awesome work!

 

Watching this very closely.

 

Hello guys ...
I have created a procedual mesh engine ... and it's really cool .... it's a lot of possibility to create realistic roads .. and really fast ....I have created a race track around 7Km and whatever I change from the editor propagates in less than one second overall the track ...I am bit strugglingh with textures ..I am not really expert ..so I am trying to figure out a dynamic mechanism to apply texture adapting the UV coordinates of theprocedual meshes..if someone could address me , I will appreciate that ....
With this engine I can procedually create junctions meshes ... ..$
One more points ...creating this engine now you have the opportunity to change setting locally .. the idea is that you can have junctions between different sized road .. so the procedurla meshe adapt to that ...
So, I will send out a link for a new videos in the next few days .. and after full immersion to close the beta and relase that ...
Cheers,

 

Sorry I cannot help you with request above, just wanted to let you know that I'm following this great project!
Making roads that are "stiched" / fit on the terrain is such a pain, and if your tool can help archieve that I'm gladly paying for it.

Please keep us updated

 

hey .. thanks a lot ...I will share a video on that specific point in the next few days ....

 

Good stuff! If you do struggle with the textures you can let utilities like Gaia sort that out (or people just make their own splatmaps). The most important feature got to be to be able to make roads that are either the same model as the terrain or "stiched" togheter ontop of it and then conforming the terrain itself. The small grity-nity finetuning people can do in Unity or 3ds Max and tailor it for their own need.

 

I got you and I agree. But I have already sorted out ...
tomorrow next video .....
cheers, ...

 

Just a small preview ....100% with my WIP asset ... no external asset ...Road is around 7Km and is a closed track
Btw ... thinking the name for asset .... not easy ...
Cheers.

 

This looks very nice : )
One question though, if i want to use this to create a river as example, will this tool create the actual river mesh as well, or only the river "base"?

 

You mean the surface mesh for the water? That would be awesome to be able to create those for our water assets to use. That is main reason I haven't played around with the river type water support in AQUAS and Suimono yet. Hadn't taken time to make my river and stream meshes. I hadn't even thought of using this for that. Good thought and question, @virror!

 

Yes, that was exactly what i was after as well : )

 

Just found this, you are addressing all the issues I've been running into while trying to work with Easy Roads V3. Thank you.

I just subscribed to the board to know when I can throw money at you.

 

@virror , @Shawn67 I can do. But I want to be sure to do right,
Can you explain more what are your expectation from that ? If you can share any further information or example , I will appreciate. Thanks

 

I will try to setup AQUAS ... I know that many people using Gaia have that .. and I think that currently is the best on asset store ..

 

Good stuff, thanks
By the way, the area around the road, can you chose how much of of it that is levled to the road?
What I mean is that some rocky road courses will have a very tight road and small area around road that is at same level, sort of a mountain road, while some roads are more like highways or racing tracks which has a lot of the area around track at same level as the road itself.

 

That's the idea .. terrain blending is really complex becuase the heighmap resolution ...so the complex point is to release a standard that can hit large part of needs ....maybe I can put a more advaced options where you can go in deeper detail .. anyway those features can be included after the first release ...

 

Hi,
added one new feature to the beta release : PBR Texturing.

 

Kind of silly question, what is PBR?
And what do you think final price on this thing will be? A student here so have to make selections on what to get and save for the the things I do get ;D

 

Phisycal Based Render ... Asset can handle that and I will include in the Asset even that kind of texture as base elemtn for road and guard rail.. ...Realism is excellent ... I will even include a shader for river

 

Hi,
I have just done few test on meshed terrain ....

 

@antoripa, Looks great. What's going on where the road loops back over itsefl? Is that where a bridge would go or is that an intersection?

I've tried using EasyRoads on Gaia-generated terrain a bit just for fun, and it can be really easy to accidentally create roads that are too steep and/or with too many blind corners. When driving on some of those tracks, it was way too easy to fly off the track at some points (aka, not fun).

Does your approach make it any easier to avoid "bad" tracks like that? I suppose it would depend somewhat on how crazy the terrain is.

 

With my approach track is created automatically between two points going trhought the short path with a maximum stepness. On top of that track roads are buid,
Everything is procedural and you can build from edit or play mode.
In the next few days I will launch a new video .. a racing car on a Gaia terrain ...thinking to create a WebGL or a EXE

 

What's up everybody ...
That's from my WIP ....It's the inside road builder ... 100% procedural and highly customizable .. fast and reliable, full compatible with PBR ...You can change on fly in runtime as system is really faster than light

 

look nice we can try beta

 

Hi,
thanks a lot.
Yes, you can. Kindly wait until I will announce the beta release. You can follow even the progress on :

https://trello.com/b/0Q7gsJiS/senti...dural-track-creator-for-roads-rivers-and-more

I keep that updated.

 

Hey guys ....
that's first shots of overall result ....Please feel free to share your feedback. Around 2 minutes 7Km road on a 4Km2 terrain..
Terrain was created with Gaia with the oustading Tarrain Stamp Package by @Shawn67
Road and Guard Rail use PBR Substance Material. I have not added any post processing FX .

 

Looks nice.
Would it be possible to do country roads, walking paths on the hills, mountains and forests?
Somehow, I have a feeling that the mesh terrains will be harder to manage/use. Am I right?

 

You can create whatever you want
"Sentieri" is really flexible.
Now I am adding a bed river generator that's a bit different.

Mesh terrain is on my feature list. It's not really different from standard terrain. My only concern is that I am not sure if Mesh Terrain will be in the first release. Most probaly in the second

 

Thanks for the shout out on the stamp pack for Gaia!

Will there be a way to control the smooth in cut-thru areas like the one shown in the first screenshot? Or will this be something we'll just need to go through using a smooth brush to smooth it to our liking? With everything this is doing, manually isn't an issue but it never hurts to ask..

Would be great to see samples both of the modern roads and paths/primitive roads.

 

I am working on automatic smooth of the cut-thru areas. It is the hardest task ...Maybe the beta will not include that function ...but the final release will do ... a little doubt on that ,...

I am preparing a demo with different scenario ...

 

Wow! I am really looking forward to this! Now I believe what is left for me to do is get the Gaia running runtime.

 

Hello guys ...
just a quick update about the status ... all main features are up and running ...
working on few minor issues and on UIX ...I am even planned an official launch video for the first Beta .. and Beta is gonna be ready soon ...

https://trello.com/b/0Q7gsJiS/senti...dural-track-creator-for-roads-rivers-and-more

Cheers,

 

Here we are ...I do now want to write down anything about perfomance ... but I can say that you will get astonished by that ....

 

Exciting news! I am looking forward to trying this out.

 

No mention of mesh terrain on your road map. Only terrain.

 

Thanks ... noted and changed ... it was still in Idea .. I created a POC and I did not move to backlog .. just update

 

Thanks.
When do you think that will be? Time wise, not release version.

 

How well would this work for creating dirt/gravel/stone paths for walking/wagons? My game won't have cars or roads but an easier way to make a "path" would be fantastic! I've tried easyroads but haven't had the results I was hoping for.

 

If you can share an example of what expected, I will quickly reproduce with Sentieri.

 

Well I basically mean draw a path that is narrower than a "road" and would more or less resemble a walked or card driven path.

 

It will not a part of first round. That round will focus on standard terrain. Second round will include mesh terrain ...let's me say that mesh terrain are even crucial from my point of view becuase will even add more features to standard terrain ( I cannot say more )