We’re very excited to announce the Ürban PAD ShareIt! Special. For two weeks, we're offering Ürban PAD for just $29. Unlocking this offer depends on you sharing it: once we hit our license goal, everyone will receive an Ürban PAD license at this special one-time price.

As we like to talk about on this blog, you can create great-looking 3D buildings and cities faster with Ürban PAD. Here are a few examples.

In the two years since we've started this blog, Ürban PAD has been used to build cities in next-generation game production pipelines, game prototypes ,industrial simulations, and architectural visualization. By offering Ürban PAD at this exceptional price, we hope to share with you the amazing power of procedural modeling.  

With Ürban PAD, you can:

• Create lots of buildings fast and sell them online.
• Make them look great with the top-notch texturing system or enhance them with Allegorithmic’s Substances (10 free Substances included).
• Fire up the city generator and let it roar to see your city appear in no time.
• Easily export your buildings or city to your favorite game engine (UDK/Unity 3D) or 3D software (Autodesk Suite).

The possibilities are endless. Show us what you can do - and don't forget to share! 

 

We're pleased to bring you the latest version in the Ürban PAD 3.0 lineup, Ürban PAD 3.0.7c: Homunculus. This version contains a number of bugfixes for version 3.0.7b: Dracolich.

Homunculus is now available for download and comes packaged with an updated version of the Simplicity sample city. Need help getting started? Find tips here on the blog or beginning tutorial videos on our YouTube channel. 

Featured Gallery: Ürban PAD to Unreal's UDK 

François has been working hard these past few weeks to get our Ürban PAD to UDK export working. This feature is not yet included in the public release, but the export workflow has come a long way since we first used an Ürban PAD to UDK workflow. We're giving past city projects a UDK makeover while we're putting the finishing touches on the export/import pipeline. Featured here are Boris' medieval building and our Simplicity sample city: 

 

 

 

 

Almost finished! Today we tackle the roof of our medieval building, which in this building refers to the composed upper part of the model. The roof (the topmost part of the upper level) took about a day, and randomizing the pike placement took less than 5 minutes: 

 

Using a procedural modeler gives us two completely different results. We build once, then regenerate for instant variation. In modeling terms, this means we get more looks for less work. As you can see in the second image, we created the roof as one sector, the addition as another sector, and used the Sector Link function to connect the two.

We also added some randomization to the mix by making the addition appear only half the time (this is the Maybe rule in the Filter rules of the Sector Editor catalogue, which is pretty handy if you want some quick, easy variation).

When this sector is linked to the sector we created in Part 2, the resulting medieval house can be used as a centerpiece or combined with other models to create a larger scene.

Postmortem: since the ground floor stayed the same (except for the archway), we saved the most time on the upper level.

In the middle photo you can see the upper level by itself. This can be used as a separate building. We're thinking about continuing this project – either making a deformable building, or regenerating this one building a few times to populate a scene with a small village (there is a possible door on the upper level).

We're pretty happy with the results, which took approximately 2.5 days to create - under our time limit - but what else could we have done to make it better or more interesting?