Today we are going to talk about an awesome Blender addon for creating cities known as CityBuilder 3D. It will allow you to create custom cities in Blender with over 60 professional 3d assets packed into a single tool. It will certainly make the process of adding those buildings to your scenes more efficient and less time-consuming. Using the CityBuilder 3D add-on and 3d asset database will give you access to over 60 various 3d modeled and textured building assets to your 3d scene very quickly.
What to expect from CityBuilder 3D Blender addon for creating cities
To make the process of creating your city scenes easier and more organized for you the developers created Four uniquely themed kits each packed into their own professional add-on. This way you will be able to easily navigate and use the assets based on the type of city you are working on.
These 4 asset kits include Metropolitan, Derelict Future, Cyberpunk Clean Future, and Soviet which is the newest on the list. To clarify, each kit includes small buildings, medium buildings, and large buildings.
1 – The Metropolitan kit
It includes 15 buildings that can be used to create clean modern city scenes. They range from small buildings that help you create neighborhoods to very long buildings that can be great for very modern cities. Especially if you want to create aerial cinematic shots or even if you want to use them in the background.
2 – The Soviet Assets kit
It has been recently added to this great Blender addon for creating cities addon. The least I can say about it is that it is fantastic. It contains a variety of different buildings from small regular buildings to medium and large buildings that don’t really look like what you would expect. Because as I can see, Soviet architecture is more creative than I thought.
Overall the buildings in this category have unclean textures to show the effect of time on these buildings. Which is going to be great if you want to create post-apocalyptic scenes that resemble that time period or that area of the world. Or even if you want to be creative and add those buildings in projects that fit the narrative or the story you are telling.
3 – The Futuristic sci-fi assets kit
It includes buildings that don’t resemble those we have in our time necessarily. I found the small buildings to be interesting and more creative. However, the medium-sized and the large buildings also give a futuristic and sci-fi vibe if you want to create scenes of that nature.
This kit is kind of the opposite of the soviet one because it is futuristic and clean. On the other hand, if you want to create a futuristic city in which the future is not as clean and bright, you can do that as well. Because if you have some experience using Blender or other 3d packages you can modify the structure of these building in addition to the textures. In order to be able to integrate them perfectly in your projects.
4 – The derelict future kit
Like the other ones it has 15 building assets, and as the name suggests this kit is good to create old or abandoned cities. Or even small towns if you use the small buildings.
The large buildings can be used to create futuristic cities that are old. Because the effect of time is clear when looking closely at the textures on the buildings.
Additional features and assets of the CityBuilder 3D
As we have seen this addon has many different types of buildings that can help you create different types of cities. Whether they are small or big, your creativity is the limit.
What I found to be most interesting about this amazing Blender addon for creating cities is not only the high-quality buildings that are included with it that allow you to create realistic cities but also the value you are getting by using this addon.
As you have seen each kit includes a set of buildings that have been chosen and designed carefully to be coherent with each other. All that certainly to help you create believable environments. If you are going to create these assets yourself it is going to take you far longer in terms of time. And it is going to cost way more in terms of resources. Such as money and effort if you try to get building assets individually from online 3d assets markets. And the best part is if you buy the addon you will receive all the newest and future asset kits for free.
For me personally, I believe that the value this fairly interesting Blender addon for creating cities offers is very well worth it. Especially if your work includes creating large scale environments. Whether it be for commercials, or Vfx or even if you want to add nice looking cities in the background. For instance, when rendering interior or exterior scenes for architectural visualization.
If you want to give CityBuilder 3D addon a go you can find it here: https://blendermarket.com/products/citybuilder-3d?ref=247
