Bus Generator

Bus Generator builds detailed, ready-to-render buses and coaches in one click, in real-world meters. Pick one of 29 ready-made buses: low-floor and high-floor city buses, a midibus, articulated and bi-articulated BRT buses, battery-electric, CNG and trolleybuses, closed, tri-axle and open-top double-deckers, a double-deck coach, a touring coach with a tag axle, an intercity coach, a hotel shuttle, a minibus, an airport apron bus, conventional and transit school buses, a prison bus, a party bus, a skoolie camper, a half-cab, a fishbowl and a streamliner from the past, a jeepney, a truck-art bus, a chicken bus and a rural bus.

Then change anything and the bus rebuilds live: length, width, height, sections, decks, floor height, front and rear ends, windscreen, headlights, grille, bumpers, mirrors, window style and bays, door count, type and leaves, roof equipment, interior, livery, route, destination and operator name.

Every bus is modeled to be looked at up close: rounded body corners, panel seams and rivets, rubber window gaskets, real light units with reflectors and lenses, detailed wheels with studs, nuts and dual rear tyres, wheel arch liners and mud flaps, and a full interior with seats, poles, hand straps, a driver's cab and ceiling lights that you can see through the glass. The paint has a clearcoat with orange peel, and dirt, rain streaks and rust are one slider away.

Doors, the school bus stop arm, wheel spin and steering are animated through drivers, so they play back in real time without a rebuild.

Features
- 29 presets in 7 groups: city, double-deckers, coaches, school and special, heritage and world buses
- 1 to 3 sections with bellows and turntables, 1 or 2 decks, open tops, two, three and tag axles
- Flat, sloped, rounded, van, conventional nose and half-cab fronts with matching rears
- Plug, folding, sliding and inward doors with 1 or 2 leaves, wheelchair ramps, doors on one or both sides
- LED, roller-blind and painted destination displays, number plates and lettering you can type into
- Liveries: two-tone, window band, stripes, swoosh, cheatline, school yellow, truck art and adverts with fictional brands
- Roof air-conditioning, battery and gas fairings, trolley poles, charging pantographs, luggage racks with luggage
- Seats for city, coach and school buses, perimeter benches, beds for the skoolie, poles and hand straps
- Animatable Doors Open, Stop Arm, Drive and Steer, plus real lamps for headlights, tail lights and the saloon
- Photoreal PBR materials that also work in game engines, low, medium and high detail, Convert to Mesh for export
- Surprise Me, Variation and New Seed buttons, a picture gallery and a Shift+A menu

All operator names, adverts and plates are made up, so the renders are safe for commercial work.

Requires Blender 4.2 or newer. Tested on Blender 4.2, 4.5 and 5.2 LTS.

Installation

In Blender open Edit, Preferences, Get Extensions, then use Install from Disk and pick the bus_generator zip.

Usage

• Open the Bus tab in the 3D viewport sidebar (N). With nothing selected, click the picture to pick one of the 29 buses, then press Add. You can also use Shift+A, Mesh, Bus.
• The card at the top shows the bus. Click its picture to switch to another preset. Surprise Me makes a random bus, Variation changes the current one and New Seed reshuffles adverts, seats and luggage.
• Type the route number, destination and operator name in the Route & Operator box and pick the display type and lettering. The Livery box sets the paint scheme and its colors.
• Doors Open and Stop Arm are animatable sliders: Shift+click the open and close buttons to add a keyframe. Drive rolls the wheels and Steer turns the front wheels.
• The closed sections below hold the details: body and size, front and rear, windows and doors, roof, interior, details and decoration, wear and export.
• For game engines set Detail to Low and use Convert to Mesh; the meshes have UVs, the origin on the ground under the middle of the bus and plain Principled BSDF materials.

Which Blender versions are supported?

Blender 4.2 and newer. It is tested on Blender 4.2, 4.5 and 5.2 LTS.

Can I use the buses in a game engine?

Yes. Set Detail to Low, then use Convert to Mesh. The meshes have UVs, the origin on the ground and plain Principled BSDF materials with image textures, so they export to FBX and glTF for Unreal, Unity or Godot. Doors and wheels are separate objects.

Are the operators and adverts real?

No. Every operator name, advert and number plate is made up, so you can use the renders in commercial work. Type your own operator, route and destination if you need specific ones.

Can I animate the doors and the wheels?

Yes. Doors Open, Stop Arm, Drive and Steer are animatable and only move the doors, the stop arm and the wheels through drivers, so keyframes play back in real time.