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Easy Powerlines

Primm - Blueprints - Nov 22, 2021

Easy to use advanced powerlines generator

  • Supported Platforms
  • Supported Engine Versions
    4.26 - 4.27, 5.0 - 5.3
  • Download Type
    Asset Pack
    This product contains an assortment of Unreal Engine assets which can be imported into a pre-existing project of your choice.

Spline based system that allows to create multiple different powerline types. 12 unique power line types that can be connected to each other, and can be connected to any other actor. The system is easy to use, but it also allows for a lot of customization, and support for custom meshes. Easy Powerlines is also made with an optimization in mind. All powerline poles has very low poly baked last LOD. Most of the poles are also using only one material slot to reduce draw calls.


Download playable demo


Contains assets from ambientCG.com, licensed under CC0 1.0 Universal.

Technical Details

Features:

  •  Powerlines generator
  • Poles can automatically stick to the ground
  •  Auto connections between powerlines
  •  Auto connection to any actor
  • Custom cable shader that reduces the pixelation effect for far cables
  • Support for custom meshes
  • Adjustable cable overhang
  • Cable wind effect
  • Poles rotation can be adjusted at each spline point/each pole
  • 3 cable types (Static Mesh, Instanced Static Mesh, Cable Component)
  • Towers can have any color
  • Towers can be painted in two color pattern

Number of Blueprints: 2

Number of Meshes: 27

Collision: (Yes) All meshes has custom collisions

Vertex Count:

Wooden poles: (694, 1420, 2264) (5080, 9022 for poles with transformer) (8 - 32 last LOD)

Concrete poles: ( 1865 - 2932) (13477 for pole with transformer) (20 - 140 last LOD)

Towers: (15 000 - 44 000) (24 - 80 last LOD)

Transformer Station: (24 800 - 51 774) (100 - 2800 last LOD)

Cables: (174, 84) (20, 24 for last LOD)

High Voltage transformer: (14 000) (1400 last LOD)

Small Transformer: (4 000) (749 last LOD)

LODs: (Yes) Generated, custom made last LODs

Number of Materials and Material Instances: 6 Materials, 7 Material Instances

2 Cable materials

1 Powerline material

3 Debug/preview materials

Number of Textures: 24

Texture Resolutions:

4K for Poles and transformers, 1K for cables

Supported Development Platforms: Windows

Documentation: Video Tutorial