Hey guys, welcome you all in this new video,
In this video, I am going to show you one
of my favorite add-ons, although this is very
new to the market, It has become a very popular
and favorite tool for many users, This is
Transportation add-on a huge library of vehicles,
it comes with 50 high-quality models, 65 HDRIs
and over 300 + backplates, so it is work of
just a few clicks to create beautiful renders,
though I have talked about rendering, I would
like to say this add-on is compatible with
both render engines, cycles, and Eevee, so
now enough of talking and Let's jump into
the blender, and let's see what this add-on
has to offer.
If you just hit the N key on your keyboard,
the properties panel appears, and in this
properties panel, you will find transportation
add-on, if you already have installed it,
the add-on is very simple to use that even
beginner can play with it like a master.
There is a dropdown on the top, and upon clicking
on this you will see a bunch of options, and
these are categories for the type of vehicle,
and after selecting one of those categories,
you can choose the vehicle you need in the
dropdown, just below this, each category has
some options for vehicles, I am using the
lite version for the add-on which has only
categories for a different type of cars, but
if you go for a pro version, you are going
to get some other categories like bicycles,
bikes, airplanes, tractors, etc. and all of
them with some extra vehicles in it, so here
I am going to choose this car, and just hit
the add vehicle button to import it into the
blender, and there it is.
By default, cars are added at the center,
but if you want to place it somewhere else,
you can just place the cursor wherever you
want your vehicle to be placed, and here,
for example, I am placing the cursor at different
locations and then switch from center to cursor
in the panel and you can choose any of the
cars you like.
After choosing a car, click on that add vehicle
button, and this will immediately import a
car in the scene, as you can see the car is
placed at the cursor's location, now, what
if you want to place that vehicle on the ground,
it is very easy, you can click on that snap
to the ground button, and this will instantly
snap the car to the ground plane, but remember,
you need to select the car you need to snap
to the ground plane before you click on that
button, otherwise, it will not work.
The next one is the 'Make editable' button,
which I am going to discuss later in the video,
but for now, let's talk about car paint.
There are three categories available for car
paint, metallic, matt, shiny, and each category
has various color presets.
to add any color to the vehicle is very easy,
choose the color preset and select the vehicle
you want to add paint on, and just hit add
car paint to vehicle button, and this will
instantly paint the vehicle with the selected
color, and if you do not like any of the selected
colors presets, you can add custom paint color
to the vehicles, choose any color from the
color wheel and click on add custom color
button and this will add that color paint,
so this was all about paints, coming next
let's talk about HDRI's and Backplates.
so overall you have two categories for HDRIs
- Exterior and interior and both of these
have some HDRIs in each category.
After selecting one of the categories, if
you click on the below dropdown, you will
find some cool HDRIs, and for each HDRI, you
will find some backplates.
The number of HDRIs depends on the version
of this add-on If you have purchased the Pro
version you will get 65 HDRIs and in the lite
version you will get 29 HDRIs.
and it is very easy to add HDRIs with this
add-on, you need to click on that add HDRI
button, and there you go, and there are few
parameters, you can tweak to adjust the HDRIs,
you can control the Rotation, saturation,
and strength of HDRI directly from here, without
going into the Shader editor, with the power
slider, you can adjust the strength, and with
the saturation, as the name suggests, you
can tweak the saturation of the HDRI, and
rotation will rotate the HDRI on the z-axis,
and at the end, you can see the Backplates
checkbox, when you enable this checkbox, this
will enable the background image in the camera
view, when you look through the camera view
by pressing the Numpad 0 on your keyboard,
the background has become transparent now,
to add a backplate just check the Backplate
from any of the options, and after that, if
you just click on Add Backplate button, you
can see that this immediately added the background
image in the camera view, this image is added
from the currently active HDRI, but you can
add backplate from the available HDRIs also,
and the last button is to add transparent
shadows, this will only work for cycles, as
Eevee does not allow to add a Shadow catcher,
so to set the shadows, we need to switch it
to cycles render engine, and now again if
you click on that add transparent shadow button,
this will add shadow for the selected vehicle,
and after that you can adjust your camera
to match the perspective with the background.
you can do this with the Shift + ~ key on
your keyboard.
By the way, if you don't know the tilde key,
this is just above the TAB key on the top
left corner of your keyboard
Adjusting the cars to the background is not
a very difficult task, instead, I enjoy doing
this, you can try different HDRIs and different
backplates, but remember one thing, try to
match the rotation of HDRI with the backplate
to match the lighting, as it may create a
weird look if your HDRI rotation does not
match with your backplate image.
so coming to the next and last topic of the
video,
I am going to show you "Make editable" button,
which we left before for the later, so it
is the right time to discuss it, this is a
very useful button and, when you click on
this, this will actually bring the car to
the scene.
Now, how does this make sense?
but I would like to say 'Yes' that makes sense,
as till now, your car was just linked to the
scene by default, as this keeps the scene
optimized, and when you click on this button,
all the parts of the vehicle are independently
selectable, so you can do pretty much interesting
things with this
Like you can just light up the Headlights
by making few changes in its material, as
that was turned off by default, or you can
also rotate the wheels, of a vehicle or anything
you like to do
after all, you can do a lot of customization
up to your wish
In the end, I would like to say this is an
excellent add-on and the cars are of the real-world
scale and imported in a way so that it does
not affect your performance, and also you
get this add-on for a very low cost as if
you search for good topology car models, you
will get them at a very high cost for a single
model, but if you go with this add-on, each
model costs you around 1..2 USD, plus you
got 65 HDRIs for Free with it
you can read more about this add-on on its
blender market page, the link is in the description.
Thank you very much for watching this video,
see you soon in the next video, till then
bye-bye.
