As an educated architect/engineer this is a wonderful tool. But it's seems better suited for building entourage for background items for renders and or games instead of a professional design tool. I do hope development continues and I look forward to one day someone making an interface for Blender that will come close to SketchUp's and Form-Z's interfaces/GUIs. Great job!
Building tools has not been developed with architectural preciseness in mind. As you have mentioned, it is better suited for game development, backgrounds or during design and layout phase of production. Your input is appreciated. Cheers.
@@lbaeli95 In N-Panel(Press n). It will appear as vertical tab with label : "Building Tools". NB: for getting this add-on you have to download, install and enable it in preference.
Yep. ghost town and SceneCity inspired me to start creating this. I had also tinkered with sverchock, but that was a while back and I decided to take another route.
1. Create a material with the textures you want. 2. Select the appropriate face group from the material panel. 3. Apply your material to the face group. 4. Try unwrapping selected faces e.g with cube projection if textures look skewed. 5. Adjust texture mapping options in the material as necessary.
hey, great add on. i relly like it and use it for my work (3d race track for games throu my village. is it possible to add a feature? i'd like to have multiple floors and select them all to add for ex. 3 floors to all of them. at the moment you have to select each after the other. it would be great to great easy villages with blender GIS. thank you very much for you hard work.
Material Groups are experimental but they work. You need to have existing materials. 1. Select a material group from the list 2. Click the material icon and choose the material you want for that group. Done!
Balcony and railing have been temporarily disabled due to instability. If you really need the tools in 2.8, you can use the unstable branch in github. github.com/ranjian0/building_tool/tree/unstable
The 2.79 version is available in the releases page on Github. Unfortunately, it is missing alot of features like Material tools and will no longer be maintained. Your best option is to use the unstable branch for 2.8. The name is a bit misleading. Its instablity is due code architecture not usability.
This is a very generic question, but I'll try to answer as best as I can. The short answer is YES. If you know how to use blender in edit-mode, it should be fairly easy to add parts like door handles and the like. If you mean if you can add custom parts to the addon, NO. All the tools are procedural, you'd need to learn how to code to add extra tools. I do however plan to provide support for this feature in upcoming releases of the addon.
@@iankaranja7765 - Sorry but I did not see your early until now. Or else I would have replied earlier. My download must have corrupted. As I downloaded a second time and installed. Works as advertised. No problems with your addon. It's EXCELLENT. Sorry about my earlier post.
Hello， I like your plug-in very much， it is very powerful in function， but it is very unstable when I use it， and it is very easy to crash. It is unstable on different computers in different versions of 2.8~2.9 win7 and win10. It is possible to fix these problems ？
Thank you for your feedback. You can share all the issues you have encountered with the addon here: github.com/ranjian0/building_tools/issues. Development is still ongoing to make the addon more stable and pleasant for users. Cheers.
An excellent suggestion for a video. I may get to it someday. No promises. You're better off finding a separate tutorial dealing with destruction and then use building tool just for creating the architecture/buildings.
No. Download the zip from the github link, then open blender and install addon from zip. If the issue is persistent, or you are getting errors, please create an issue in the github repository with details of what is failing. Cheers!
@@iankaranja7765 i am sorry for thee noob question, but i installed you addon and can't get the starting menu (as there is no more toolshelf), where are them? Where can i find thee tools?
@@lbaeli95 If you are using blender 2.80, You will find them in the N-panel on a tab called Building Tools. (In short, press the N key in the 3D viewport)
Has anyone ever really got this to WORK ? After dicking around for hours I finally got the latest version loaded. Went to the N panel.......... wow there is was. That was it. Nothing works. Create floor plan ........ Zero, go to EDIT mode nothing works. No Floors, windows,doors, stairs or roof. How can you share this when it doesn't work? It looks like a really interesting addon. Cheers MR HOLLYWOOD
If you are still using blender 2.79, I am sorry but I have discontinued support. Otherwise, please feel free to try the latest blender 2.80 release (in the releases page on Github), fixed the installation bug today. Cheers.
![POLYCAT - ข้อความรูปยิ้ม [Music Video]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/lBhIgPGCgbI/mqdefault.jpg)
Even after 18 month this is STILL in my top 5 blender addons
Been busy lately but I try to get something small done every chance I get. Will post a new video about materials soon. Cheers.
As an educated architect/engineer this is a wonderful tool. But it's seems better suited for building entourage for background items for renders and or games instead of a professional design tool. I do hope development continues and I look forward to one day someone making an interface for Blender that will come close to SketchUp's and Form-Z's interfaces/GUIs. Great job!
Building tools has not been developed with architectural preciseness in mind. As you have mentioned, it is better suited for game development, backgrounds or during design and layout phase of production. Your input is appreciated. Cheers.
@@iankaranja7765 Glad that you took it as constructive as it was meant to be. Keep up the good work!
This is absolutely incredible! I have been hoping for something like this for ever in Blender!
Wow. That's amazing!!!!! Awesome job.
Awesome, tried this addon in blender 2.8. Thank you :-)
sorry for the question but where are the tools located in 2.8?
@@lbaeli95 In N-Panel(Press n). It will appear as vertical tab with label : "Building Tools".
NB: for getting this add-on you have to download, install and enable it in preference.
@@egnevadesigns thank you i just missed that panel now its working perfectly!
Nice , Bravo hope the same for 2.8 ;)
Realy nice tool.
big potential here ..imagine sci fi building too l , old architecture tool , temple tool ..endless possibilities
Really amazing
awesome
Great work
Much love for this. Are there any medieval options in this? Hope so. Thnx
Useful, very! :) Also, we need "Sci-Fi Buildings Generator" ;-)
Looks great. What additional features do you plan to add?
See the current feature list here: trello.com/b/CK0O4MjA/building-tool
It looks like ghost town, addon for 3DsMax. I'm thinking of creating something like this in Sverchok.)) It needs special adaptive polygons node only.
Yep. ghost town and SceneCity inspired me to start creating this. I had also tinkered with sverchock, but that was a while back and I decided to take another route.
There is no balcony item in in this addon i'm using blender 2.82 :(
Balcony and Railing tools have been temporarily been disabled due to instability.
Great tool! how do I add Image texture??
1. Create a material with the textures you want.
2. Select the appropriate face group from the material panel.
3. Apply your material to the face group.
4. Try unwrapping selected faces e.g with cube projection if textures look skewed.
5. Adjust texture mapping options in the material as necessary.
Really great addon, easy and fast to build. Are you updating it?
Yes. Development is ongoing with lots of features still to come.
I'm using version o.9.7 in Blender 2.82 and adding the windows/doors keeps crashing after a few minutes.
hey, great add on. i relly like it and use it for my work (3d race track for games throu my village. is it possible to add a feature? i'd like to have multiple floors and select them all to add for ex. 3 floors to all of them. at the moment you have to select each after the other. it would be great to great easy villages with blender GIS. thank you very much for you hard work.
You can do that actually
@@iankaranja7765 sounds great but not working here. maybe i find a solution
This is REALLY cool. Trying to figure out how the material groups work. Are they functioning yet?
Material Groups are experimental but they work.
You need to have existing materials.
1. Select a material group from the list
2. Click the material icon and choose the material you want for that group.
Done!
@@iankaranja7765 Alright! Figured it out...that's very very cool. Once again, this is a great tool.
Can I get a link for the add on?Been searching lately for it.I am using blender 2.82
You can get the latest 1.0-alpha here: ranjian0.github.io/building_tool/
Did you remove those extra settings for 2.8? I only see the basic stuff
I disabled only balcony and railing while I do some refactoring
@@iankaranja7765 Oh okay. I look forward to updates! Super useful addon. Thank you for what you do
does not work with Blender 2.81
Addon name not found
Working on 2.81a for me.
@@AndyTanguay Tried to import but the addon doesn't appear on the Addons tab
same here. doesnt shop up after instaling zip file in 2.81
Doesn't work for me either.
Why can I only use create floorplan, others are gray and cannot be used
Other tools only work in edit mode
missing option to add balcony in blender 2.8+, which version is still working for 2.79?
Balcony and railing have been temporarily disabled due to instability. If you really need the tools in 2.8, you can use the unstable branch in github.
github.com/ranjian0/building_tool/tree/unstable
@@iankaranja7765 i can work on 2.79 as well. Is there a stable version for 2.79?
The 2.79 version is available in the releases page on Github. Unfortunately, it is missing alot of features like Material tools and will no longer be maintained.
Your best option is to use the unstable branch for 2.8. The name is a bit misleading. Its instablity is due code architecture not usability.
Hello, i would like to know if is it possible to easily add custom parts. Thank you
This is a very generic question, but I'll try to answer as best as I can.
The short answer is YES. If you know how to use blender in edit-mode, it should be fairly easy to add parts like door handles and the like.
If you mean if you can add custom parts to the addon, NO. All the tools are procedural, you'd need to learn how to code to add extra tools. I do however plan to provide support for this feature in upcoming releases of the addon.
Who needs an architect anyway ....?? )))
Does not work properly with 2.82a. Documentation on installing is too confusing. Not worth the frustration.
What in particular does not work? Which part of installation is confusing?
Your feedback would be much appreciated.
@@iankaranja7765 - Sorry but I did not see your early until now. Or else I would have replied earlier. My download must have corrupted. As I downloaded a second time and installed. Works as advertised. No problems with your addon. It's EXCELLENT. Sorry about my earlier post.
@@kenmorris2858 Feel free to report any issues you come across here: github.com/ranjian0/building_tool/issues
Thanks and Cheers.
Hello， I like your plug-in very much， it is very powerful in function， but it is very unstable when I use it， and it is very easy to crash. It is unstable on different computers in different versions of 2.8~2.9 win7 and win10. It is possible to fix these problems ？
Thank you for your feedback. You can share all the issues you have encountered with the addon here: github.com/ranjian0/building_tools/issues. Development is still ongoing to make the addon more stable and pleasant for users. Cheers.
You can also chat with developers on our discord server here: discord.gg/hK4UaGu
hi i am a young blender user (12) is it possible for you to make a tutorial how to use this for destruction like in Attraction?
An excellent suggestion for a video. I may get to it someday. No promises. You're better off finding a separate tutorial dealing with destruction and then use building tool just for creating the architecture/buildings.
Ian Karanja okay!
Having a hard time installing. Is there a trick to it? Did I download the wrong thing?
No. Download the zip from the github link, then open blender and install addon from zip.
If the issue is persistent, or you are getting errors, please create an issue in the github repository with details of what is failing. Cheers!
@@iankaranja7765 i am sorry for thee noob question, but i installed you addon and can't get the starting menu (as there is no more toolshelf), where are them? Where can i find thee tools?
@@lbaeli95 If you are using blender 2.80, You will find them in the N-panel on a tab called Building Tools. (In short, press the N key in the 3D viewport)
Has anyone ever really got this to WORK ? After dicking around for hours I finally got the latest version loaded. Went to the N panel.......... wow there is was. That was it. Nothing works. Create floor plan ........ Zero, go to EDIT mode nothing works. No Floors, windows,doors, stairs or roof. How can you share this when it doesn't work? It looks like a really interesting addon.
Cheers
MR HOLLYWOOD
If you are still using blender 2.79, I am sorry but I have discontinued support.
Otherwise, please feel free to try the latest blender 2.80 release (in the releases page on Github), fixed the installation bug today. Cheers.