[RELEASED] Magnet Roads v2.0.0

Magnet Roads v3.0.1 is here...
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For those who've not heard of Magnet Roads:

The quick and easy way to quickly create spline based road geometry in the editor; making use of a simple to use magnet-inspired interface to snap roads together. Use intersection pieces to create larger interconnected road networks, and use inbuilt methods to extrapolate data from the Magnet Roads to meet your own ends.

Magnet Roads is a package designed to easily and rapidly produce interconnected, high-quality roadways in Unity. Making use of a unique magnet-like polarity system to attach different roads and intersections together, Magnet Roads combines visual readability with ease-of-use to give you a road generation solution unlike any other available.​

TL;DR - Roads with Magnetized ends for simple snapping goodness.

Here are some of the pre-existing features:

2.0.0 FEATURES​

Customisable peripheral road geometry like fences and central reservations!


Roads can now snap to the contours of the terrain.


3.0.0 FEATURES




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The full changelog:

Spoiler: Changelog (v3.0.1)

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Magnet Roads v3.0.0 - Changelist
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Copyright - Torchbearer Interactive Ltd - 2017
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+ Added Dynamic intersections with changeable connection amount
+ Added Decal system for Magnet roads
+ Added Snap to collider feature to Magnet roads
+ Can now Snap points of the same type to each other
+ Added SetRoadControlPointPosition method to Magnet road
+ Added two-way intersections
+ Added sidewalks to intersections
~ Updated to Unity 2018
~ Updated handle colours to make them more distinguishable
~ Updated TBUnityLib to v1.6.0 (addition of plane generation for dynamic intersections)
~ Updated Gizmos handles (removed unused functionality)
~ Fixed bug where clear mesh would sometimes throw a null reference
~ Fixed bug where gizmos were not clickable

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Patch 3.0.1
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~ Fixed issue with default texture assignment overriding custom textures
~ Stopped crashes on build

Asset Store Link

Demo Link

Always keen for feedback and comments! If you want to report an issue/bug please email us:
contact@tbinteractive.co.uk​

Hope you enjoy it!​

 

I don't suppose this is compatible with Unity 5.6 by chance? The asset store lists it as 2017.1.1 or higher, but I figured I'd double check.

 

Afraid it's only updated to Unity 2017 at the moment. But I can't imagine it would be a big job to support it with a couple of tweaks to the codebase.

 

After that it generates the road, can we easily save the mesh on the scene and completely remove the script? I had many problems with other road tools in the past, so I'm looking for this feature.

By watching the videos it seems to be perfect for what I need, a fast tool to make my prototypes.

 

Hi, Marcos-Elias

Yes, I can confirm that this is possible. If you want the game object without the scripts just follows these steps:

• Generate the road mesh (I'd suggest ticking the 'Show Child Objects' checkbox)
• Remove all attached scripts (usually MagnetRoad & BezierSpline)
• Delete the SnapPoint child objects
• And there you go! You now have the geometry of the magnet road without the scripts.

Note: Magnet Roads generates multiple meshes in child game objects. The final output of this method will be a game object with multiple children. E.g:



I hope this is the functionality you were after!

 

Nice, exactly what I wanted! With some other tools the mesh is lost when I did this. I'll try it, I bought your script today. Thanks!

 

Great stuff! Happy to help.

 

I'm making endless runner games.
When the end of the road approaches, I will connect the new road to make the world.
But what do I do? The AttachMagnetRoad() function was not what I was thinking.
I would appreciate it if you could give me an easy way to do it.
Or AttachMagnetRoad (bool atPositive, MagnetRoad newRoad)
Could you make an next update?

 

Great idea! Hadn't considered this as a feature, but it's definitely going into the next feature update.

I'll add it to my work backlog!

 

Hi, great looking asset for road and track creation.

I have just been reading the documentation, and I was wondering if its possible to set start and end points for roadside fences? from the documentation it look like when you add a roadside fence, it adds it to all of the road, not just certain sections.

Hope that makes sense...

 

Hi, Greg

As it stands you can only create fences that line the entirety of the road. That being said, you can remove individual parts of the fence in-editor once generated. Sounds like a great idea for a future feature though!

Hope this helps.

 

Thanks for reply, I think I will grab a copy and have a play, btw the runtime tools look great!

 

No worries, glad you like the look of it! If you find any bugs or just want to ask a question feel free to email me directly!

Hope you enjoy it.

 

Hi,

This tool looks amazing, any updates on the endless mode feature ?

Thanks!

 

Afraid the next update is still firmly in the works. Will be spending a lot more time on it soon though!

 

can your asset do roll coaster spline ?? (like this https://www.worldatlas.com/r/w728-h425-c728x425/upload/65/79/7f/roller-coaster.jpg)
because from the doc I'm not sure that it's possible even though it's bezier curves (cause these yellow point won't allow "rotation and scale" but just position? ). can you try ?

 

Hum i guess that to complete your point, using an asset like mesh baker to bake the mesh will also increase performances

 

Afraid it's not really suited for this at the moment. Sorry.

 

Will you include it into your next update???

 

Today I tried to make a spring kind of road(this kind of spring) . Do you have a way to smooth the mesh so that when the car reach a turning point (corner of the spring) it doesn't start behaving as if there were holes and bump on the ground?(jumping around and shaking)

 

Hi, Emile

I'm guessing you're using the Road Follower/Demo Racer script that ships with the demo?

Unfortunately, it's only a rudimentary demonstration script with no interpolation and I wouldn't recommend that you use the script on a production game - at this time it's only good for getting a visual on where the road waypoints are for each lane.

I'd recommend that you implement your own car script - feel free to use the demo script as a starting point though!

All the best
Jon

 

No no I'm using my own car physics script.
I will be making a video and show you how it does perform

 

Alrighty then, will take a look-see when you upload; a code snippet might be great as well (as long as you don't mind).

All the best
Jon

 

OK ok I can send you the script of the car physics on DM.. I'll do everything tomorrow and show it to you

 

Sounds good. Will give it a lookover.

 

Hi, I want to make a 4 lane road like this pic, with dotted lines....will this keep my spacing / tiling using my own texture instead of the provided default texture?

Also with the new border feature can I control size and texture of sidewalks? For example can it be made large enough to place building models or only footpath width?

Thanks!

 

Hi, 3CHO12

Yes and yes. Custom textures should work fine & tile without seams.

The sidewalks can be as wide as you want them to be.



Hope this helps!

All the best
Jon

 

Updated the OP with the latest changelogs & screenshots.

 

Hi, is it possible to split a road in two in a Y shape (like on the image attached).
I'm considering buying but I need to make sure of that before. Thanks!

 

Afraid it's able to do that at this stage - but it's a feature that's been requested a few times now, so it's definitely on the target feature list.

Jon

 

Hi there, been unable to get the intersections to work on 2018.3, besides using the realtime demo.

Also is there a way to edit roads without having to first click on an end point and then click and drag again? Very tedious.

Thanks!

 

Do you have any more information on the intersections; what settings you've got selected and what exactly were you trying to do when it wasn't working? I haven't been able to break them in my initial tests so far.

As for the second point, yes - the only way to edit roads is one node at a time as it stands.

I hope this helps, and I look forward to hearing back from you!

All the best
Jon

 

Sorry for late reply, never got a notification for response for some reason. Here is a gif I made of trying to connect some roads to an intersection in the demo scene. As you can see there is no snapping or connecting of any sort.

https://gyazo.com/b40bfc8db2e2c4f63701005d359c4a63

 

Have you tried making new roads and an intersection in a new scene and testing it there? I'll take a look at the demo scene again and see if there's anything wrong with the setup.

 

Yeah that's why I went to the demo scene to see if I was setting it up wrong or something. I somehow got one to connect once but couldn't reproduce it.

 

So is the asset usable or not? The last review said its not usable on newer unity versions.

 

I can not find the asset. Is it removed from store?

 

Yes it has been removed from the store.