# Road Tool

## Short Description

Generates customizable road/path meshes along curves.

## Description

Creates a road/path mesh along the input curve/spline. This tool allows for detailed customization of the road characteristics including width, height, and alignment. It also provides options for splitting the road at specified intervals.

## Properties

### Base Properties

* **Curves**: Curve to create a path mesh around
* **Width**: Width of the path mesh
* **Inside Height**: Raises the inner vertices of the mesh
* **Border Height**: Raises the border vertices of the mesh
* **Profile Flatten**: Flattens the profile from the center to the edges

### Profile Settings

* **Profile Divisions**: Number of divisions for the profile curve
* **Profile Smooth**: Smoothness of the profile curve
* **Profile Angle**: Angle of the profile curve
* **Profile Alignment**: Aligns the profile curve to the path curve (Not compatible if Path Width - Width is used)
* **Look at points**: Points to look at when using the 'Look At' profile alignment

### Geometry Settings

* **Projection Mask**: Projects the road onto the input meshes
* **Full Mesh**: When on, the full road mesh will be considered, making the road follow closely the underlying mesh
* **UV Scale**: Scale the UVs
* **Noise Scale**: Controls the scale of the noise
* **Noise Intensity**: Controls the intensity of the noise
* **Subdivision**: Subdivisions of the mesh
* **Normals Angle**: Normals angle of the mesh
* **Invert Normals**: Inverts the normals of the mesh
* **Receive decals**: If set to true, the road mesh receives decals

### Path Width

* **Width**: Creates two parallel meshes along the sides of the curves
* **Width - Keep Center**: If set to true, the mesh objects at the center will be kept when using the width parameter for parallel curve scattering
* **Width - Sides**: Number of parallel meshes to have on each side of the curves

### Splits

* **Split Mode**: Split the road at the specified distance or number of splits
* **Min Distance**: Minimum distance between the splits
* **Max Distance**: Maximum distance between the splits
* **Split Seed**: Seed for the splits
* **Num Splits**: Number of splits to create the road
* **Splits Offset**: Offset the splits
* **Splits Threshold**: Ignores the splits if the section's length is smaller than the threshold
* **Skip Nth**: Skip every Nth split
* **Skip Nth Count**: Count of splits to skip
* **Max Splits**: Limit the maximum amount of splits per curve


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