Building A City in Minutes Using Blender 

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Thanks now I can make my own gta 6 lol

I was just wondering how I’d generate a city as a solo dev. This is incredible!

I have the premium version some time ago, I was trying out if I can make flight sim scenery with it. Really not bad, especially with another plugin like this Buildify. However, when importing big areas, the bottleneck becomes blender's 32-bit single precision floating point coordinate system (just like with any float-based 3D engines). Placement precision starts to fade away when distances go beyond the magic 10km (or +/-7 digits of dimensions given in mm, e.g. +/-9999.999) range. Until blender gets native 64-bit double precision coordinate support, post OSM import precision wil not be constant across the board. This is something one should consider, especially if trying to tile maps from different imports.

It looks like terrain is actually supported, to an extent. It's not one of the checkboxes, but above that, you select the terrain object. If you set the import to terrain instead of OpenStreetMap, it will import a plane that looks like it follows the elevation of the area. Then it seems to automatically select that object as the terrain. Select OpenStreetMap after that, and it imports the stuff referencing the terrain. It looks like it does not go so far as to "stick" the buildings to the terrain, but it does make the roads and such follow it from the looks of it. EDIT: Actually, it looks like the built-in 3D buildings do try their best to stick to the terrain, it just doesn't do that with the geometry nodes addon.

Thank you so much for making this video! I really love your content, keep it up man! ❤

Wow, that change the way we build cities. Thanks for sharing

Literally was looking for a way to build Toronto and you showed me how! Thank you!

You can import terrain as a separate import. Select "terrain" in the dropdown next to the "import" button. This will create a terrain object of the size selected on the map. You can then do the rest of the import. If you select the terrain object before downloading the building structures and they'll follow the topology. You can also import satellite images onto the terrain as yet another import option.

This is stupidly cool. Now I can get a little exercise with a walk around town with Vespucci open and put in as much data as possible on all the buildings, upload to OSM, wait for the sync, then download my neighborhood into Blender xD.

I prefer these kinds of tutorial videos of yours over the videos that just feel more like news/announcements like a new game engine version. They feel more useful to me.

Thank you. That is an amazing tool for Blender.

Please make a video buildbox is mad.

This was such a great example. This kind of thing in particular is quite tricky especially if you need to have it done quickly

Every time I hear a youtuber mentioned they're from Toronto I get happy for some reason lol, AND a blender user? Even more rare. Subscribed

Correction: The asset set that is included with Buildify 1.0 is NOT from Megascans. That would be a FLAGRANT violation of the ToS for Megascans and would get Pavel in pretty deep trouble. The building sets used IN THE VIDEO on the Gumroad page are Megascans assets (except for the Desert set which Pavel created themself).

How to create a city? Step 1: Sacrifice the Cube! 🤣

That's a coincidence. I just recently downloaded this not too long ago. It's a pretty cool plug in

11:35 that building fracturing in a funky way would make a trippy dream sequence, make that 2d plane do the worm. parts of the building would fracture and then go back, to normal. silent hill "Otherworld" but with unstable geometry, you could have it slowly worm in to the Otherworld and slowly worm out of the Otherworld.

my import doesnt seem to work at all in 2D it only gives me floor maps , not sure whats wrong, no bulding is being imported

This is super cool! I've been spending the past few hours recreating my old neighborhood. What alternative to the basic Buildify are there for generating different types of buildings?

Perfect, will play around with this. Looks like it may take care of the some of the busy work for a project I am working on. I wonder if I will be able to stitch multiple sections from different cities together with a bit of tinkering.

Wow this is Big

I'm seeing myself using these two addons separately. European old cities are a chaos of old senseless streets turning on themselves and different building styles next to each other. But having the volumes of the buildings is great for a more streamlined or abstract piece. And with some time of collecting and curating, buildify can be an incredible tool to make different looking buildings.

perfect video Could you make a video on how to place the texture or create the textures to paint a unique building, not necessarily the procedural one plus a cube for example🥰😍

So great!

I think you can make destroyed buildings easier if you don't keep the base mesh flat when you use buildify. I mean you would have to do additional work to add a bit more damage to them, but it wouold seem it would work well.

@5:45 can you make a separate video on how you add different walls and roofs to buildings with this modular system? *It will be greatly appreciated.*

really nice and detail thank you so much !!

You didn't mention that to export to Unreal you need to add a node (mentioned in the doc) to make the mesh and apply the modifier.. Then Send2UE takes care of everything.

would be nice this with interiors

I mostly do 2d art but this will be great for getting some quick 3d references of buildings.

Unity has Cidy2, but this is nice for buildings, but not roads, and the other parts but this is useful

I was wondering is there a standalone software like this where I don't need Blender to make these types of buildings?

VERY NICE! Blender made me uninstall 3dsmax. and I t just keeps getting better because procedural stuff like this is what us GAME devs REALLY WANT

I tried to use the Desert Kit blend file, but it doesn't have the node groups set up to work with OSM, or even any Geometry Node setup within the file itself to use the objects within the file. Frustrating.

Someone needs to integrate this with Unreal engine so that the pieces remain modular when you export to the engine. That would be amazing!

Great idea, but the implementation is not applicable for game development. 1. Exporting real geometry yields about 300,000 faces for a building and 50,000,000 faces for a small town. 2. Overlapping polygons for both buildings and roads. 3. For a generated city, it is difficult to edit the materials for an individual building.

Now if only it were this easy to make forests.

everytime i import the 2d map with buildify it wont build thru building correctly and looks all broken down, not how it is in the tutorial. if there is a solution please let me know thanks

I can definately see this being useful for visualizing concept art. Pretty cool.

When try export with the Ian and buildout, the building don’t show, how to fix?

thanks for the tutorial

IDK if this has been removed from the free version or just corrupted but the buildings from buildify are terrible or it didn't remove the old buildings or something.

Nice one! thanks!

hmm followed all instructions but cant seem to import it as a 3d object, its all flat

nice!! thanks for the videos!

This is amazing

I have both. Sometimes it's confusing how to install and use. I have to get out of one project to start another tool...

is there a way to get this city into unreal engine so i can make a third person free roam game on it?

man this is very good,

Hello, I have a question about those websites, just let me know please, can I use those buildings in my youtube videos? Are they NCS components? Thanks

I'm a comic artist looking to make varied buildings for my backgrounds... where can I buy kits to use with buildify? 🥺

Nice tutorial, unfortunately blender crashes when I use Buildify for building a pretty big area (Oslo 40x20km) but not with the default Blender-OSM method of rendering

How do I import this to Unity? Whenever I do it just loads a ton of flat planes.

The 10:10 was awesome!!!!!!!!

when i tried importing with geo nodes it just placed a bunch of tiny watch towers and wierd fantasy buildings that are not even in the buildify blend

Did all of that but there no texture how do i fix that?

I'm considering using this method to mock up a city for use in Unreal Engine 5.1, any thoughts on how viable this is?

You should try to use the sinty city assets that unity and unreal gave away for free with buildify.

modern buuildings with balconies in Vienna

I Want to export this as an FBX file and import it into my game, is that possible? Because when I tried applying the modifier the buildings disappeared and only the roofs remained

AskNk covered these as well and I have used OSM way back it is a bit less intuitive than buildify. I'd rather used Buildfy but OSM has more practical. Another downside of the OSM it can get pretty heavy and you can get all of unwanted information as well. I didn't know you could use OSM and Blendify together with OSM if that is true then that is cool.

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Would it be possible to make these buildings collapse as well? (total noob here)

Can I use the final model for commercial purposes

how would you go exporting it to glb/gltf?

Can you show us how you did the materials on your building in your thumbnail...👋😆👋and maybe turn it into a treatise on how to add materials and make the buildings different just as easily as you create them

hey i have collections of building and i want to put them intro the imported 2D map . The collection i have not in Geo nodes and i do not want to use buildify for that, so what should i do?

That poor cube's sacrifice shall not be in vain.

This is the way

hello, can it be used in unity? Will there be a performance drop because of it?

What about parks and parking lots?

Great

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Anyone else think of the UNIX file system viewer that Lex used in Jurassic Park after that first step?

can be imported to unreal easy I suppose ?

Can we get an F in chat for the Default Cube...? Such a fucking hero.

Doesn’t that break the megascans license to just rip a building asset, put it in an addon, and not use it in Unreal?

What about roads?

Where are all these resources?

what if the city I'm living is doesn't have the 3d view on google maps

what about the textures?

api key what is up with that? how to

2-2-3 and 4 is the solution

Hmm, not super impressed with the clickbait thumbnail. Was expecting an additional step showing how to implement phototexturing into this workflow. Yes, I can find that elsewhere, but I can find the rest of the content in this video elsewhere also.

Ayo wait, thats way too easy 😂

I build my city on rock & roll. Any version.

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ArcGis installation too complicated!

On my way on making gta updates see the update soon boys

You can't be from Toronto because you didn't say "Toronno". lol

And now, how do I make this city work properly in Unreal Engine? :P

It's neat, but you're not really making anything. it's basically the same as building a city in Cities Skylines

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This is what we've all been waiting for.