As a tip for straighten up sharp turns in your road object to avoid extreme turns dosage: 1. In Blender click on the Curve button in Properties panel. 2. Look at the first panel called Shape where 3D is lit. 3. Change Twist-method to -> Z-up. This is particularly important IF you gonna use the road/road segment for game assets where a vehicle is going to drive on the road and the road is going to have physics as well.
I experimented with it a little. I learned a lot. Here's what I found: ------ 1. it MATTERS a LOT if you have your road stretch along the X axis, vs the Y,Z axes. Stretching along other axes requires an extra step! 2. Make your road stretch along the X. The array should have +1 on the X, and the curve should curve along the +X axis. (Not -X!) 3. The origin of the road segment Does Not Matter. The scaling matters! Apply scale to reset 4. The origin of the curve matters, It should be the first point. 5. The direction of the curve matters. It should point away from the origin. 6. The curve must have no rotation. (Ctrl+A, Apply rotation, to reset rotation) If you want your road to stretch along the Y axis, then you'll have to introduce a rotation to your curve: R, Z, 90. (Important: Curve modifier still curves along X) If everything is done correctly, then: ---------- 1. Curve modifier should Not Move your object by an offset. Turn curve modifier on and off to verify that your object does not move. 2. Your object should simply slide along the curve, but not move. It can slide against either side, or thru the center. Move your curve to verify that. If the object moves when you move the curve, the direction of the curve is opposite. switch direction Tip: Self intersection can occur. If the self-intersection isn't too severe, WELD modifier might be a quick fix. Note: It is possible to have no rotation on the curve, if you select -Y for axis, and -1 for array. Selecting +Y introduces a 90 degree rotation, -Y does not. This is not working as good, though: unwanted movement is observed in this technique.
the best solution is rather transform a profile of a 3d object in a curve and use another curve to extrude it In the "object data properties". Working on 3d as in this video can bring a lot of issues hard to fix.
Just came back to Blender after quite a long break. It's awesome to see that you're still making great tutorials for newcomers and people who are a bit rusty like me! Although, I will miss your art critique videos. Your comments on my renders have really helped me grow, and i can't thank you enough! (I can't believe it's been over a year!)
@@RyanKingArt You certainly deserve every subscriber. Your depth of field, composting, and material tutorials have been especially helpful (especially your procedural car paint).
This solved a big problem I was having with this procedure. I didn't realize it was important to center and apply location on the mesh and curve objects before assigning the curve. I was getting all sorts of weird twisted shapes and couldn't work out what I was doing wrong. Just adding that one step from your tutorial solved the problem. Thanks bunches!!
brooo, ive been trying to do that for years now following tuts but never succeeded, today I was finally able to make my objects follow a cuve, thx a lot.
Thanks for this. I'm making speaker wire and this seems to be the best way to have the jacket and the wire materials be on one object and follow an editable path.
To move curve in the Z axis without twisting, for hills etc: 1. Click on the Curve Data button in Properties panel (2nd from bottom) 2. In the first panel called Shape , row 4 says 'twist method' 3. Change to Z-up
Awesome tutorial Ryan. I usually have cameras follow paths for really smooth movement, but I hadn't thought to use a path for something like this. 😃 Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us! I hope you have a great rest of your week my friend! 🙂
Thank you! Just wondering, how did you get the texture material to bend along with the path, I'm trying to do this with a tile texture and it sticks with the same direction the whole time.
Thanks for the tutorials. Im trying to recreate my childhood home road but google map isnt accurate at all and I have trouble with elevations. Is there any easier way to make an existing curve path to gradually decent ?
Could I make a shoe lace mesh and animated it lacing a shoe with a curve like this? Can I drive the mesh to start at one end and flow to the other end of a curve?
may I ask how to twist segments of the road so that part of it flat, part of it twist to right and part of it twist to left, would you mind to make a video to show us how ? thanks in advance 🙏🏻
I have a question so i used it to make a river threw some mountains but when I go to merge them together a breaks the mountains is there a way to fix it
What do I do if, after applying location for both objects, my mesh refuses to be anywhere near the curve under any circumstances? In edit mode, it is sitting next to the curve, but in object mode it displaces itself far away from the origin and cannot be moved closer to the curve.
Hello, I created a mountain road, I went into side view and it's bent everywhere and it's crazy, I want to keep it flat as possible, is there a way to keep it flat? Like a straight road?
Very helpful. In the second case where you showed the road not being aligned with the path, would there be a way of centering it with a function? Instead of doing it manually?
Ryan i need help, whenever i use a bump node when I connect it to the normal it shows the model as flat shade, like it shows the sides and the verticies, how can i fix this?
Great video. nice and clear. Would you ever consider doing a motion capture tutorial using Rokoko Video - Free Motion Capture? Building a simple model and then how to use the downloaded rig? I've searched many videos but they are all rushed and not fully explained. It needs your careful style to pull it off.
hi, is it possible to make the road line separately ? a curve for the road, and a snapped line texture... and can we apply one texture only on one part of the road ?
Hi Ryan. Would you be able to make a tutorial on a specific kind of dilemma in relation to the fog (principled volume). I have an underwater scene which I’ve made. I want to add a basic fog shader to the ocean, with an underwater rounded room which I don’t want affected. M I have hollowed out the cube with the rounded shape, hopefully excluding the fog texture from the centre, but it still disregards the hollowed out shape. Maybe it’s the normals, but I’m not sure why it’s still displaying t the fog throughout the shape. Is there a way to solve this? Thank you 🙏
Dear sir thank your effect to teach the blender unbelievable❤❤ ON the first day hard but this time very easy this is possible with you help lot of thanks
Cheers mate, awesome tutorial. So I'm a total blender noob and have a question for anybody willing to help, I'm looking at remodelling my hometown (using a google maps image as a reference) for a 3d walkaround project in Unity. Ambitious I know but whatever, it takes as long as it takes. That considered would this still be the best method to model the roadways given that roads can have intersections or different widths with roundabouts and split roads etc. or is there a better more granular way overall? OR will I be able to simply combine the above method in the vid with individual modelling for the aforementioned intersections and roundabouts etc.? Again I'm just learning Blender so sorry if it's a dumb question. Cheers
Hi Ryan! This is kind of off-topic. But is there a place where we could show you some of our work? I just made a Star Wars scene following a bunch of your procedural material tutorials and would love your opinion! Thank you as always for your teachings master ❤
As a tip for straighten up sharp turns in your road object to avoid extreme turns dosage:
1. In Blender click on the Curve button in Properties panel.
2. Look at the first panel called Shape where 3D is lit.
3. Change Twist-method to -> Z-up.
This is particularly important IF you gonna use the road/road segment for game assets where a vehicle is going to drive on the road and the road is going to have physics as well.
I LOVE YOU YOU ARE AMAZING!!!!!!
Man, you just have the best tutorials. Hope you've been keeping well Ryan.
thanks!
I experimented with it a little. I learned a lot. Here's what I found:
------
1. it MATTERS a LOT if you have your road stretch along the X axis, vs the Y,Z axes. Stretching along other axes requires an extra step!
2. Make your road stretch along the X. The array should have +1 on the X, and the curve should curve along the +X axis. (Not -X!)
3. The origin of the road segment Does Not Matter. The scaling matters! Apply scale to reset
4. The origin of the curve matters, It should be the first point.
5. The direction of the curve matters. It should point away from the origin.
6. The curve must have no rotation. (Ctrl+A, Apply rotation, to reset rotation)
If you want your road to stretch along the Y axis, then you'll have to introduce a rotation to your curve: R, Z, 90. (Important: Curve modifier still curves along X)
If everything is done correctly, then:
----------
1. Curve modifier should Not Move your object by an offset. Turn curve modifier on and off to verify that your object does not move.
2. Your object should simply slide along the curve, but not move. It can slide against either side, or thru the center. Move your curve to verify that. If the object moves when you move the curve, the direction of the curve is opposite. switch direction
Tip: Self intersection can occur. If the self-intersection isn't too severe, WELD modifier might be a quick fix.
Note: It is possible to have no rotation on the curve, if you select -Y for axis, and -1 for array. Selecting +Y introduces a 90 degree rotation, -Y does not. This is not working as good, though: unwanted movement is observed in this technique.
@@user-wh4wm3mw7l How much does 3ds Max cost?
@@RealGaryGibson if youre in high school or college its free with a student license
the best solution is rather transform a profile of a 3d object in a curve and use another curve to extrude it In the "object data properties". Working on 3d as in this video can bring a lot of issues hard to fix.
@@giovannimontagnana6262 I don't understand your process. Can you point me to a video that showcases it?
congrats, you made the only one tutorial that explains correctly how to make it
glad it helped!
I like it when tutorials are short and easy to understand
I hope you found this video helpful
People like you are very few in this world who teach blender and teach well and solve everything thank you very much
welcome!
Just came back to Blender after quite a long break. It's awesome to see that you're still making great tutorials for newcomers and people who are a bit rusty like me! Although, I will miss your art critique videos. Your comments on my renders have really helped me grow, and i can't thank you enough! (I can't believe it's been over a year!)
Welcome back! Yep I'm still making tutorials! And thanks to all of my supporters I am able to make Blender Tutorials for a living!
@@RyanKingArt You certainly deserve every subscriber. Your depth of field, composting, and material tutorials have been especially helpful (especially your procedural car paint).
This solved a big problem I was having with this procedure. I didn't realize it was important to center and apply location on the mesh and curve objects before assigning the curve. I was getting all sorts of weird twisted shapes and couldn't work out what I was doing wrong. Just adding that one step from your tutorial solved the problem. Thanks bunches!!
You are definitely my favorite channel for blender. Thanks for everything! 😁
you're welcome! Thanks for watching!
At first I couldn't get it to work but I found putting the origins of both parts in the same place fixed it.
I like the shorties bro.
Thank you for this. Simple and to the point. Great little tutorial.
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks!
thank you so much for your support!
Why is it that when apply the array modifier the road texture gets messed up, any solution?
brooo, ive been trying to do that for years now following tuts but never succeeded, today I was finally able to make my objects follow a cuve, thx a lot.
Thank You, Ryan! Simple and very effective solution!
thanks for watching!
Very straightforward explanation, great for users who haven't delved into geometry nodes yet
glad you like it!
I love your tutorials and the way your voice sings. 😊
thanks
Thanks Ryan - love all of your tutorials❤
Glad you like them!
Thanks for this. I'm making speaker wire and this seems to be the best way to have the jacket and the wire materials be on one object and follow an editable path.
best tutorial I've ever seen. Keep it simple like this and thanks a lot!
Glad it helped!
You're the only one who got this to work for me, thanks!!
glad it worked!
WHEN I DO THE EYE DROP THING ON THE CURVE IT SAYS FAILED TO SET VALUE
You probably set the modifier on the wrong object.
To move curve in the Z axis without twisting, for hills etc:
1. Click on the Curve Data button in Properties panel (2nd from bottom)
2. In the first panel called Shape , row 4 says 'twist method'
3. Change to Z-up
thx ryan, i often stumble upon your tutorials and they are always helpful. thx
glad there helpful!
Thanks, this is excellent. This works so much better than how I was trying to do it, and so simple.
Glad it helped!
Explained very well & straight forward, Thank you Ryan.👍
thanks for watching!
good job, I just realised that I needed that 🙂
thanks for watching!
You give the best tutorials.
thanks!
Awesome tutorial Ryan. I usually have cameras follow paths for really smooth movement, but I hadn't thought to use a path for something like this. 😃
Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us!
I hope you have a great rest of your week my friend! 🙂
Thanks so much!
Thank you King Ryan
you're welcome!!
I was literally just struggling with this and poof, thank you
glad it helped!
Thank you! Just wondering, how did you get the texture material to bend along with the path, I'm trying to do this with a tile texture and it sticks with the same direction the whole time.
Thanks for the tutorials. Im trying to recreate my childhood home road but google map isnt accurate at all and I have trouble with elevations. Is there any easier way to make an existing curve path to gradually decent ?
I think I saw some of the road addons you can just draw out a road which is cool too
yeah that's pretty cool!
You are incredibly helpful
glad it helped!
wonderful tutorial. this helped me so much, thank you
Thank you, Ryan! If possible, bring us some Geometry Nodes tutorials in the future. Regards.
Thanks! yeah I'd like to do some more Geometry node tutorials sometime
Could I make a shoe lace mesh and animated it lacing a shoe with a curve like this? Can I drive the mesh to start at one end and flow to the other end of a curve?
This one dude has definitely saved me days of irritation
glad my videos can help
Nifty!
thanks!
Just in time! looking for this on my project
hope it helps!
Amazing 🤩🤩
thanks!
Awesome! Thank you.
You're welcome!
once again, a great thank you.
👍
This dont work for me at al, when i selekt the NutbsPath to the curve objekt my road disapear, no mather what i change nothing is showing. Why?
may I ask how to twist segments of the road so that part of it flat, part of it twist to right and part of it twist to left, would you mind to make a video to show us how ? thanks in advance 🙏🏻
I have to be able to tilt the road but when I go into edit mode on the road it no longer follows the curve so I can't really edit it.
I have a question so i used it to make a river threw some mountains but when I go to merge them together a breaks the mountains is there a way to fix it
Love it Ryan
thanks!
I want to change the shape of a plane for square to oval or a circle. How do I accomplish this?
im trying to make it attach to the curve but its going all over the place and i dont know how to fix it
Amazing thank you! is there a way to reduce the size of the objects as they go along the curve?
2:51 bro you save my life 😭😭😭
Thanks! Now, what if I have multiple objects in a collection for the road? How do all of these follow the path?
cool but could you make a video explaining how to put the texture you linked onto the block please?
What do I do if, after applying location for both objects, my mesh refuses to be anywhere near the curve under any circumstances? In edit mode, it is sitting next to the curve, but in object mode it displaces itself far away from the origin and cannot be moved closer to the curve.
Thanks Ryan. Any idea how to do the same by using a U shape curve instead of path curve? I tried that but it doesn't work.
thanks for the tutorial!
you are welcome!
Really useful! thanks so much!
You're welcome!
when I do setup the curve modifier, the road doesn't follow the path properly - its to the side and slides off at an angle
Hello, I created a mountain road, I went into side view and it's bent everywhere and it's crazy, I want to keep it flat as possible, is there a way to keep it flat? Like a straight road?
Thank you!!! 😊
You are welcome!
Is there a way to bank your curves using this method? I tried tilting my path's nodes but the arrayed object didn't respond to it
thanks for this
You're welcome!
Very helpful. In the second case where you showed the road not being aligned with the path, would there be a way of centering it with a function? Instead of doing it manually?
tysm! I used this to bend plant leaves I modeled.
cool! thanks for watching.
Ryan i need help, whenever i use a bump node when I connect it to the normal it shows the model as flat shade, like it shows the sides and the verticies, how can i fix this?
Great video. nice and clear. Would you ever consider doing a motion capture tutorial using Rokoko Video - Free Motion Capture? Building a simple model and then how to use the downloaded rig? I've searched many videos but they are all rushed and not fully explained. It needs your careful style to pull it off.
thanks for the idea! I will consider it.
@@RyanKingArt Thanks Ryan.
warrior J is the MAN!
who is warrior J?
@@RyanKingArtoops....for some reason my reply appeared here and not on the video i was commentting on? ..... but i did watch your video yesterday :)
@@_bushyOh ok. 😄
When I use the displacement modifier on this it gets lots of visible seams, do you have any idea how to fix that? :0
hey whats the best place to show you pictures of my apartment progress im making? most of it is with your stuff and im almost done with the kitchen!
Fantastic, thanks a lot pal!
You're welcome!
hi,
is it possible to make the road line separately ?
a curve for the road,
and a snapped line texture...
and can we apply one texture only on one part of the road ?
ThankYou Brother
welcome!
cool, but this only works for flat roads. if the road is going up it will deform the curve, like bend it side ways. how do we avoid this deformation?
On curve set twist method to Z-up
Yes I finally did it 🙏 thx
beautiful.
thanks!
aaah nice
thanks
Good information 🇦🇶
thanks
can you retain the shape of the curved road, and delete the modifier some how...
Yes, you can apply the modifier.
can i make it a circle path in curves tab?
I need to know how to do this, and keep the "road" the exact length of the curve
thanks!
you're welcome!
Hi Ryan.
Would you be able to make a tutorial on a specific kind of dilemma in relation to the fog (principled volume).
I have an underwater scene which I’ve made. I want to add a basic fog shader to the ocean, with an underwater rounded room which I don’t want affected. M
I have hollowed out the cube with the rounded shape, hopefully excluding the fog texture from the centre, but it still disregards the hollowed out shape. Maybe it’s the normals, but I’m not sure why it’s still displaying t the fog throughout the shape.
Is there a way to solve this? Thank you 🙏
Dear sir thank your effect to teach the blender unbelievable❤❤
ON the first day hard but this time very easy this is possible with you help lot of thanks
thanks for watching
thank you man
you're welcome!
Thanks so much you are the best
You're welcome!
thank you bro
You're welcome!
thank you so much
You're welcome!
Cheers mate, awesome tutorial. So I'm a total blender noob and have a question for anybody willing to help, I'm looking at remodelling my hometown (using a google maps image as a reference) for a 3d walkaround project in Unity. Ambitious I know but whatever, it takes as long as it takes. That considered would this still be the best method to model the roadways given that roads can have intersections or different widths with roundabouts and split roads etc. or is there a better more granular way overall? OR will I be able to simply combine the above method in the vid with individual modelling for the aforementioned intersections and roundabouts etc.? Again I'm just learning Blender so sorry if it's a dumb question. Cheers
thank you so much :)
You're welcome!
thank you veryy much
You are welcome!
thank thank thank thank
you're welcome!
excellent
thanks!
😍great!!
Thank you! 😃
Hi Ryan! This is kind of off-topic. But is there a place where we could show you some of our work? I just made a Star Wars scene following a bunch of your procedural material tutorials and would love your opinion!
Thank you as always for your teachings master ❤
thanks
Welcome!
It doesn't work, the plane mesh just stays the same shape but it flies all over the place if I move it, and it sometimes deforms
Ty
you're welcome!
make road intersections please 🙏🏽
thanks for the video idea.