roads.sexy

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  Terrain

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  Street

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  Sidewalk and street

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Inspiration

• realistic rendering

What it does

• visualizes roads, pavements, road markings, nature (grass) to enable AI models to learn self-driving cars in a virtual environment. The data is given in 2D street data (Open Drive format) and converts it to a nice looking 3D map (See photos).

How we built it

• converted 2D to 3D coordinates
• applying height to vertices by using Perlin noise to generate terrain
• added 3D models and road markings to scene to make it realistic
• Also added sidewalks and street lights for a better ambient

Challenges we ran into

• xodr visualizer does only work with English locales
• rendering textures on 3D objects (we hated Unity for a while)
• limited power on our laptops

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• Having street lamps
• To accomplish more then we expected to especially in the last 10 hours

What we learned

• learned a lot about 3D modeling, rendering and texturing
• learned how to use Unity

What's next for roads.sexy

• Put in more auto generated stuff like houses along the sidewalk
• Better Shaders and Textures
• Improve performance
• But first of all, have a very very good Sleep!

Built With

• blender
• c#
• c++
• opendrive
• unity
• xodr