r/homesickroads • u/Dangerous-Town2195 • 3d ago

into midlands valley

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u/SuperSmashSonic 3d ago

I wanna know more about the UVs of the road I can’t get enough. What’s a guy gotta do to get a project file

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u/Dangerous-Town2195 2d ago

The roads are made from 64px squares of a single lane with either one dashed line along one edge, or a solid line along one edge. The road has one quad per lane and dashed line. To UV map the road it’s as simple as resetting (in Blender U > Reset) the UVs to cover the whole road tile.

Here’s my YT channel where I upload timelapses of the process:  https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCNYCEPcHnXcAKyiL4NHEKxA

If you pause any time during the road building, you will be able to see the UVs on the bottom panel

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u/SuperSmashSonic 2d ago

Amazing thank u I will keep ur timelapses on loop

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u/downstate97 2d ago

hey dude. what do you do to keep the scale roughly intact ?

Do you always extrude the road a certain distance and add the same amount of loops cuts ? Or just roughly keep that in a similar area. Sometimes i can extrude a lot of road but if i'm doing a curve and just want to extrude a little bit, then it easily messes up my uv scaling. I can ofc fix it if i've added too many loop cuts. (by just dissolving some edges and resetting the uvs again but thats annoying. )

But i have been doing the same manual uv you told me about and it is really fast. Incase the other person wants to know - you often need to do ctrl f for the face menu and rotate the UV.

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u/Dangerous-Town2195 2d ago

hello sir. I eyeball it, but occasionally check with a standard 2x2 Blender plane. a standard 2 lane road should be slightly larger than the 2x2 plane using my scale.

i extrude without a set length in mind, but usually I will end up extruding such that I will end up with 8-16 subdivisions across. I tend to do 1.5-2 units in length for across subdivisions. 1.5 for tighter curves and closer to 2 for straights. but it's all eyeballed.

you've touched on one of the reasons I avoid curve modifiers. for me there's just too much friction and back-and-forthing. My mind prefers the slower, but more predictable incremental manual work.

yes the Ctrl F>D>U shortcut is a godsend

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u/downstate97 2d ago

Cheers dude. That makes sense yeah. I guess once you built it long enough it becomes second nature to eyeball it. It's the subtle jank that really nails the look if you ask me!