TheDuckCow
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1 year ago Hi @Renan02938 thanks for chiming in with this use case.
If you mean having sections that are pre-modeled (such as hand crafted meshes, or prefab scenes already laid out in a scene), then yes this should in fact already be possible - it's a core use case in the Wheel Steal game we are making this for. But at the v0.3.2 point of the plugin, it is somewhat awkward. We will create a page around it soon, but in short:
Video overview
Step by step
- Import your hand-crafted model into its own scene (being in its own scene just makes it reusable, you could also just do this in the "main" scene with your RoadNetwork)
- Manually place RoadPoints with the correct number of lanes for each end point of your custom mesh. Do NOT connect them together, otherwise geometry would be created between them. I should have reduce the "shoulder size" to zero on both points in this demo, since the mesh basically has no shoulders.
- Optional (not shown in video): If you're using the generated AI lanes with the rest of the road, you'll need to manually place "RoadSegment" curves which follow each lane that you'd like AI to be able to follow. Note that the the AI lane system is pretty basic right now and leaves most of the work to the user at the moment to make useful, it will be getting better.
- Bring your custom scene into your scene with the rest of the road network
- Mark the instance as "editable children" (this is not necessary if you are making these connections on the fly during the runtime of the game)
- Then, manually connect the according "prior points" to "next points".
- Tweak the sizes of the roadpoint as necessary (in the video, I did this on the "editable children", I should have done this in the original scene itself to save rework on reusing this piece).
Note: Connecting two custom segments like this right now likely won't work, as the RoadNetwork just looks for RoadPoints to generate meshes for which are children of the Points spatial. So if you are hoping to use exclusively models you've created yourself as a sort of lego block of piecing things together, it won't work very nicely (it's also not going to be that useful to use the plugin anyways, other than eventually making use of the smart placement tools we are planning to build).
Note 2: We are indeed hoping to make this experience even easier, as this is our strategy for how we'll implement off the shelf complex road configurations and intersections, so users won't have to build it all themselves each time.
Hope this helps! Let me know if you were thinking of something different.
Create road networks by importing your own models