Roads and streets?

Squiggly_P

This is a total noob question, but I wanna get into modelling some more complex scenes, but I can't seem to wrap my brain around the idea of modeling and texturing streets or winding roads. Is there some guide out there that covers this? I can't seem to find any decent information via google, which seems to spit out a lot of street-art or miniature modeling (like model train scenery stuff...)

I figure you'd have to just use chunks of street and snap them together, but you wouldn't want to clog up your memory with dozens and dozens of unique objects, so you'd want to make fairly large chunks, yeah? I'm over-thinking this, I think...

Sorry If I posted in the wrong section.

ZacD

It depends on the editor and what you are making exactly, Cryengine has a tool that does a lot of the work for you.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-QFE0AJM3U"]CryEngine 3 SDK: How to Create/Add Roads and Add a Vehicle - Tutorial 09 - YouTube[/ame]

You could make it modular, or you could do a seperate tiling mesh right above the terrain that fades on the edges.

Squiggly_P

I'm thinking more of the GTA series, with the urban environments. Some sections are basically a grid, but others are really windy and hilly. I guess the best bet would be to just make a thread for my WIP scene and get some advice.