[Free] Simple Road Tool

[Michal_Deak]

Hi, great tool
… but, is that workling with UE 4.15.1.? Because when I click on “AddEnd - Run” button in Blubility panel, nothing happened (it will not create another paths). Maybe I miss something.

In video is this step on 2:16https://youtube.com/watch?v=31SIyEPOen4
Thanks for help

[siebencorgie]

Hi people,
Sorry that I forgot a little bit about this tool, I had some exams etc. -> Not much time to do anything. So I start with answering some questions.

@xBULL3TxSP0NGEx;676726

I haven’t downloaded this yet, plan to this week, but is the tool with meshes and textures already implemented and functioning just as seen in the video available for purchase on CGTRADER? I looked but didn’t see it on your page.

I can put the pieces for sale on CGTrader. But I will have to change the textures a bit because I don’t own the textures I used (they are from CGTextures :D).

@Sitrec;682055

Thanks for sharing this. Do you have any plans for continued development of this? I hope this could be a replacement for the paid Road Tool plugin as it seems to have been abandoned. I would gladly pay for this if you decide to continue develop it.

At the moment its a bit problematic for me to develop further. The Editor currently suffers from heavy bugs on Linux (which I am using). For instance it crashes when opening skeletal meshes or the Engine-Settings. I already filed some bug reports and hope that it gets better
However, the tool will remain free. I think its a nice small edition many people could need. As specially starters. Thats why the way is free and “open-source”.

@Kamran Wajdani;687037

From Where i can download this blueprint i am unable to find download link and attached file link is just blank text: Screenshot by Lightshot

Sorry that seams like a bug within Epics forum. I uploaded the files to their forum. Maybe try again later?

@Adnoh;687592

Thank you. One thing I’m missing while testing - U use the “MarkingMesh” for displaying the Landscape Marks. Which one can/should we use for that? Can you provide yours?
Can you explain a little about the landscape feature - I don’t get it working at all (except for getting the heightmap adjusted to my road) - but how to use the other landscape parameters.
=> ok figgured out you need to fill in the makeArray in your LandscapeTransform Funtion. Works - but chance is really high to F+Up your hole Landscape Saving a lot is your friend.
While playing around I get it nearly always messed up everything when using “Align to surface” and need to reload the complete map to fix it.

Is it ok four you if I “fork” this one? I’d like to work on some parts, cleanup the BP, and add things like Road Bend/Roll and Width. Do you still continue workin gon this? Than I’d put my version in a post of this thread, if not I’d create a new forum thread and link to this one if your fine with that.

You are free to fork it and make improvements. If you want you can post the improvements/blueprint here. I would add the to the main thread post so everyone can see them. However as I mentioned above I won’t work on this in the next few weeks.
[EDIT] I forgot to answer the thing with the landscape
Yes its right. The landscape feature is already build in the blueprint editor. Sadly as you also found out a little bit buggy. But I can’t do anything against it as far as I know.
For the mesh I use a 1x1 plane with a grid texture on it. You can activate it and it should show you now the area in which the landscape-alignment influences. There are actually two an “inner” one where the influence starts and an “outer” one in which it ends (for smooth transition between road and landscape of cause ).

[siebencorgie]

@Michal Deak;696119

Hi, great tool
… but, is that workling with UE 4.15.1.? Because when I click on “AddEnd - Run” button in Blubility panel, nothing happened (it will not create another paths). Maybe I miss something.

In video is this step on 2:16https://youtube.com/watch?v=31SIyEPOen4
Thanks for help

Hi,
did you add sockets for the mesh. If not double click your mesh and add some sockets within the socket manager (i guess somewhere in the bottom right) with the appropriate location and roation (the red arrow should point “out” of your street towards the “to be connected” road).

[siebencorgie]

@xBULL3TxSP0NGEx;676726

I haven’t downloaded this yet, plan to this week, but is the tool with meshes and textures already implemented and functioning just as seen in the video available for purchase on CGTRADER? I looked but didn’t see it on your page.

Hi again, I added the models here on CGTrader. You’ll get every mesh you see in the video + a roundabout as FBX, within a .blend file as well as .uasset which you can put into your “content” folder of your project. If you use the .uassets the sockets should already be set up and functioning. However you will have to create materials for the textures I supply with the CGTrader pack. I had to change the road as well as the intersection/brick texture, because I don’t own the rights of the ones I show in the video. Have a look at the last three pictures on CGTrader to see what the new ones are looking like. However the meshes work with any tiling texture, so you could also for instance use this one with out any problems :D.

[xDennis0811]

The Plugin dont work for me, when I press ALT + dragging the Point out the Mesh just duplicates

[suiksuiky]

Hello, i’m new with the Ue4 and i’m asking if it’s possible to use it for commercial used ?

[siebencorgie]

@xDennis0811;701695

The Plugin dont work for me, when I press ALT + dragging the Point out the Mesh just duplicates

You’ll have to select a spline point (usually a white square) and drag this out. If you select the mesh you’ll duplicate it.

@suiksuiky;701789

Hello, i’m new with the Ue4 and i’m asking if it’s possible to use it for commercial used ?

You can use this for commercially. However If you get any decent revenue consider to spend a small amount on stuff from my CGTrader account

[hannes.b]

@Kamran Wajdani;687037

From Where i can download this blueprint i am unable to find download link and attached file link is just blank text: Screenshot by Lightshot

I had the same problem in Mozilla Firefox, but it works with the Internet Explorer.
Try another Browser! Hope it works

[xPraetorianGuard]

Can someone say how I use this road meshes ? ( or this one road mesh ) because i cant use this blend in my UE4 it doesnt work. what do i have to do with it ?

[xPraetorianGuard]

Could someone help me ? The streetmesh is not working for me idk what to do with this blend …

[siebencorgie]

Well, you’ll have to open the .blend file with blender and export the meshes you like. The file is meant to show you how to construct your own street meshes.

[ConFUE4cious]

Question

Hey Bud,
i sent a pm with details of my issue, this is the screenshot. For everyone else, this error log is on a fresh project, with a fresh RapidRoadTools installed, and none of the files referenced in the log have been used for the tool to need to reference them. How do i get rid of it all? Or doesnt it matter too much?

My main project (hopefully due for release soon) where these errors became cause for concern, which has used this tool extensively, loads all the meshes correctly with all textures intact but still gives this error log.

I love this tool and recommend it to anyone - ive used it for roads, intersections, walls, fencing, guard rails. So many uses =)

[siebencorgie]

@SykoStace;712761

Hey Bud,
i sent a pm with details of my issue, this is the screenshot. For everyone else, this error log is on a fresh project, with a fresh RapidRoadTools installed, and none of the files referenced in the log have been used for the tool to need to reference them. How do i get rid of it all? Or doesnt it matter too much?

My main project (hopefully due for release soon) where these errors became cause for concern, which has used this tool extensively, loads all the meshes correctly with all textures intact but still gives this error log.

I love this tool and recommend it to anyone - ive used it for roads, intersections, walls, fencing, guard rails. So many uses =)

Hi,
I guess the original blueprint tries to find the meshes I used in my project at the location on my computer.
Please try to replace the following meshes in the original road blueprint with your own meshes and see if the errors happen again:

(On the left side)
Street Mesh -> SplineMeshComponent -> replace all three entries with one of your local meshes (they will be your default meshes)
End Mesh -> CrossMesh -> also, just replace it with one of yours (it will be the default end mesh)
Landscape -> MarkingMesh -> Replace this with a normal plane and a UV map. The plane bounds should be 1uu/1uu. This is used to visualize where the impact of the landscape aligning will be.

-siebencorgie

[ConFUE4cious]

Yep that did the trick bud - the boxes were blank already but as soon as i changed them to my meshes the errors disappeared. Thanks heaps for that

[hannes.b]

@siebencorgie: Thanks for the great tool! It makes it much easier to learn how to create roads.

I think i found the bug, why applying to the landscape creates strange scratches:
In the align to surface function you start the line trace at the SplinePoint and end TraceDepths (10000) units down.
If your SplinePoint is already on the surface, it doesn’t hit any surface and then moves to a strange location.
The problem also appears, when you click align to surface a second time, because all SplinePoints are already on the surface.

So, if you start your LineTrace 1 unit up (or TraceDepths units up) your SplinePoints always align to surface.
Now its also possible to align multiple Splines to the surface.

[overreal]

I tested this, it looks good but the created spline mesh has no collision. How do I get collision working?

[wilsonc]

@overreal;718340

I tested this, it looks good but the created spline mesh has no collision. How do I get collision working?

I just tested this too and I found a fix. In newer versions of UE4 you can’t modify a static mesh’s collision after it’s been spawned (as it was done in this blueprint), but you can just set it in the “AddRoadToSpline” function (It’s in the functions list of the RapidRoadTool blueprint), click on the “Add Spline Mesh Component” and collisions options should pop up on the right. Set “Collision Presets” to “BlockAll” or whatever you like and it should work.

[Sky001 (DerSky)]

Hey, this is awesome! It works fine in the editor but in my Map Log and in the Build Log which everytime failed are the following errors:

I dont know if this is the reason for the failed builds but can you help me to fix this ?

[siebencorgie]

@Sky001;725537

Hey, this is awesome! It works fine in the editor but in my Map Log and in the Build Log which everytime failed are the following errors:

I dont know if this is the reason for the failed builds but can you help me to fix this ?

Hi, I guess this is the same problem @SykoStace found some replies earlier. Try this fix:

@siebencorgie;712924

Hi,
I guess the original blueprint tries to find the meshes I used in my project at the location on my computer.
Please try to replace the following meshes in the original road blueprint with your own meshes and see if the errors happen again:

(On the left side)
Street Mesh -> SplineMeshComponent -> replace all three entries with one of your local meshes (they will be your default meshes)
End Mesh -> CrossMesh -> also, just replace it with one of yours (it will be the default end mesh)
Landscape -> MarkingMesh -> Replace this with a normal plane and a UV map. The plane bounds should be 1uu/1uu. This is used to visualize where the impact of the landscape aligning will be.

-siebencorgie

[gaitara]

Help, I can’t seem to find the download link… am i missing something or has the download link been removed…?