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Content Type: Addon
Addon Type: Tool
Addon Tags: Build, Realism
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Jul 12, 2017 @ 5:09am
Jul 19, 2017 @ 3:22am
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Hammer Road Maker

Description
⚠️Archived! The addon will no longer be improved or updated.

Developer tool that allows you to create curved brushed road in the game, and then export them to vmf.
It is useful when building roads on displacement surfaces (mountains, hills).

Public alpha 1.1:
- Now the road is physical! Physics is disabled by default. Enter the roadmaker_enablephysics 1 in console to enable.
- Supports client/server communications.
- Completely rewritten and improved internal libraries.

Choose weapon in the Hammer Road Maker category:
  • Press R - Change mode.
  • Press Mouse1 - Create or move point to cursor.
  • Press Mouse2 - Remove last or select nearest point.

To display the points, enter the developer 1 in console. This can cause a lower FPS with large amount of points.

Console commands:
  • roadmaker_enablephysics - Enable physics of the road. Set 0 to disable.

  • roadmaker_height - Set height of the road.
  • roadmaker_width - Set width of the road.

  • roadmaker_clear - Delete all points.
  • roadmaker_getvmf - Export brushes to vmf file in data folder.

  • roadmaker_toptexture - Set top texture of the road.
  • roadmaker_sidetexture - Set side texture of the road.
  • roadmaker_bottomtexture - Set bottom texture of the road.
  • roadmaker_nodrawtexture - Set nodraw texture of the road.

To export your road mesh to vmf, enter the roadmaker_getvmf in console. Your vmf structure file will be in the data folder and is named vmfgenerator.vmf.txt.

If you create extremely twisted roads, they will appear broken. Their vertices can merge into each other and cause inverted meshes. Hammer Editor will display "invalid solids" error message.

Source code: GitHub[github.com]
232 Comments
ADAM Mar 27 @ 11:13am 
I don't fully understand how you managed to figure out how to pull this off, but as a regular user of Hammer, I expect to likely end up using this at some point.
Very cool. Keep up the good work! :steamthumbsup:
oooshiny06 Feb 28 @ 2:07pm 
Doesn't work the roads are not solid
Guy96069 Feb 15 @ 9:26pm 
bro its called "Hammer Road Maker" for a reason
Xtreme_Shoot Feb 6 @ 4:14am 
imagen: you making Road Of The Dead 2010.
cossop Aug 21, 2023 @ 5:35pm 
or is it just roads
cossop Aug 21, 2023 @ 5:35pm 
is it possible to make a house with this
Ver Apr 28, 2023 @ 8:23pm 
Whoa this looks fucking sick, thanks guy. I'm going to abuse the hell out of this.
flynn11 Feb 11, 2023 @ 8:27pm 
What program are you using
dylanxdstarwars Jan 16, 2023 @ 8:41am 
is Nodegraph to hammer possible ?
TIMON_Z1535  [author] Dec 29, 2022 @ 4:36am 
Sorry, it's not provided, you need to modify the script.
It wasn't meant to be a road builder to play with friends, it's a mapping tool for Hammer.
Anyway, I don't support it anymore because I don't use it. I would be glad if someone wanted to improve it.