Procedural road from centerline spline - conform to terrain

Intuos5 — Fri, 17 Aug 2018 13:48:27 GMT

For editing reasons, I'd like to create a road which is based on a single spline with control knots at corners and start/end points. One of the workflows I've tested (shown here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmxPPyuyDzY) results in sloppy geometry and is especially troublesome when I try to conform the road to a non-planar terrain.

Is there a way to create a procedural roadnetwork with chamfers/ fillets at crossings and corners that results in clean geometry? With clean geometry I mean square/ rectangular topology for the road along the length of the road.
The only way I can think of is to use shapemerge cookie cutter to cut the road (from edit poly > create shape) out of a plane and then conform it to the terrain, however this is no longer procedural...

Re: Procedural road from centerline spline - conform to terrain

Anonymous — Sat, 18 Aug 2018 11:30:07 GMT

I doubt there is a way to keep procedural so many things: crossing, terrain, fillet etc

A post that could be relevant:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/3ds-max-forum/road-plugin-tool-for-3dsmax/td-p/6787118

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Procedural road from centerline spline - conform to terrain

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