Yatra – Indian Bus Generator for Blender

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A Blender add-on inspired by Indian roads

YATRA

Indian Bus Generator

From painted city buses to weathered hill-route workhorses, build a bus with a story to tell.

13ready-made buses

7painted art styles

1 clickfor a new variation

Meet Yatra

Every road leaves its mark.

Build buses inspired by the color and character of Indian roads. Choose a preset, paint it your way, pile up the roof and dial in years of wear.

01 / PAINT & PERSONALITY

Painted to stand out.

Choose truck art, swooshes, folk murals, floral vines and more. Add garlands, tassels and chrome details to make it your own.

02 / CONDITION

Fresh paint or a life on the road.

Go from new to rusty wreck with a condition picker, then fine-tune dents, rust, dirt and broken glass.

03 / ROOF LOAD

There's room on the roof.

Load up sacks, bundles, trunks, cartons, baskets and bicycles, with tarps and ropes to hold the cargo down.

04 / VARIATION

Take the scenic route.

Press Surprise Me to explore new combinations of bus, livery, condition, destination script and roof load.

Built for the journey

Details that tell a story.

13 buses to start with

Explore state, private, rural, hill, city and school bus presets.

Destination boards

Choose from English and destination scripts used across India.

Ready to animate

Use rig controls for steering, wheels, suspension and doors, with wheel-rotation baking.

Made for your scene

Choose the detail level and convert to mesh for export. Bake procedural materials for game engines.

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

More details

Yatra builds the overloaded, battered buses of Indian roads in one click, in real-world meters. Pick one of 13 ready-made buses: red state ordinaries, striped desert expresses, coastal and plains route buses, private buses in loud swoosh liveries, short hill-route buses, village minis, city service buses, school buses, a semi-deluxe and a rusty wreck that barely runs.

Every bus looks like it has done a million kilometres. The panels are dented and scraped, the paint is faded and patched, rust bubbles at the skirts and wheel arches, mud is splashed up the sides, dust covers every ledge and the glass is cracked or missing. One Condition picture goes from New to Used, Old & Dirty and Rusty Wreck, and the wear sliders stay editable.

And they are painted like the real ones. Pick a hand-painted style by picture: Truck Art with framed panels, rows of colored dots, a tiled bumper, the red triangle and a big painted name board; Tourist Swoosh with huge multicolor sweeps and a TOURIST board; Folk Mural covering the whole side in dotted motifs; Panel Art with a picture in every frame; Floral Vines, Peacocks or plain state Pinstripes. The art is part of the paint, so it fades, chips, rusts and gets muddy with the bus. Dress the front with thick marigold garlands, tassel and bead fringes, bells and chrome bling.

The roof carrier is piled high: jute and plastic sacks, cloth bundles, tin trunks, suitcases, cartons, baskets, milk cans and bicycles, with a torn tarp thrown over and ropes tied down to the rails. Choose Village Market, Family Travel, Parcel Cargo or Everything, and how high it goes.

Up close it holds up: real window openings with bars, sliding sashes, shutters or rolled canvas, open doorways with deep step wells and grab rails, bench seats inside, destination boards in nine Indian scripts, round or rectangular headlamps, a heavy channel bumper with a plate, long mirror arms, mud flaps with tassels and the lemon-and-chillies under the front.

Features
- 13 presets in 4 groups: state transport, private, rural and hill, city and school
- Classic flat, rounded and modern fronts; ordinary, express, city, private, hill, mini and school bodies
- Real dents in the mesh, plus scratches, rust, mud, dust, faded paint, repaint patches and broken glass
- Condition picker: New, Used, Old & Dirty, Rusty Wreck
- Roof carrier (full, rear half or none) with procedural luggage, tarps, ropes, bicycles and a spare wheel
- Destination boards in Hindi/Marathi, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi and English
- Liveries: state two-tone, state stripes, solid with band, private swoosh and school yellow
- 7 hand-painted art styles over the livery, worn with the paint, with painted names in the board's script
- Marigold garlands, tassel and bead fringes with bells, chrome bling
- Sliding, open-barred or shuttered windows, open doorways or controllable passenger doors, interior with seats
- Animation rig with steering, wheel rotation, individual wheel bumps, suspension, driver and passenger door controls, and wheel-rotation baking
- Animatable Drive and Steer, headlights that light up
- Surprise Me, Variation and New Seed buttons, picture pickers and a Shift+A menu
- Low, medium and high detail, Convert to Mesh for export

All names are generic and there are no real operator logos or brand badges, 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 indian_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 13 buses, then press Add. You can also use Shift+A, Mesh, Indian 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 the dents, luggage and small details.
• Click the Body and Front pictures to change the bus, and drag Length, Width and Height.
• The Condition picture sets every wear slider at once (New, Used, Old & Dirty, Rusty Wreck). Dents, Rust, Dirt and Broken Glass are right next to it.
• Pick a roof carrier, then the Roof Load picture, its amount, the tarp and the bicycles.
• Livery, colors, the destination board script and the window style are in the next box. Doors, wear details, small details, motion and export wait in the closed sections below.
• In Motion & Lights, click Pose Rig to animate Root, Suspension, Steering, Wheels and individual Wheel Bump controls. Rotate the door controls to open the driver door and folding passenger leaves. Bake Wheels keys rotation from the animated travel over the scene frame range. Drive and Steer sliders are also animatable.
• 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 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 wheels are separate objects and the origin is on the ground. The paint, rust and dirt are procedural shaders, so bake them to image textures before exporting to FBX or glTF.

Are these real bus operators or brands?

No. The buses are inspired by real Indian buses but carry no operator logos, brand names or badges, so you can use the renders in commercial work.

Is the damage real geometry?

The dents and scrapes are real mesh deformation, and the rust, scratches, mud, dust, faded paint and patches are in the materials, all driven by the same sliders.