A whole city in one click, from the glass towers to the chimneys on the roofs.

Metropol builds a complete procedural city in Blender: towers downtown, mid-rise apartment and office blocks, shopping streets, suburbs with gardens and pools, parks, and a far city that runs on to the horizon. Every street gets kerbs, footways, trees, lamps, signals and furniture.

The buildings are assembled from a real modular kit, with moulded windows, cornices, tiled and metal roofs, dormers, rear wings and streets that are not ruled with a straight edge. Draw your own roads, curved or at any angle, and Metropol builds the blocks between them. One click switches the whole city to a style, from a glass metropolis to a European old town or a wet night.

The same city holds up from a plane and from the pavement. Far away it is a roofscape running into the haze; up close it has shopfronts with goods on the shelves, signs, signals and street furniture.

Far City carries the streets on to the horizon.

Detail all the way down to the kerb.

Shopfronts with goods on the shelves and rooms behind the glass.

Trees, lamps, signals and furniture on every street.

Draw road centre lines from above as the edges of a mesh or as a curve and click From Roads. Crossing roads meet in junctions, loose ends are ignored, and each enclosed area becomes a block in its district.

Ring and radial roads drawn by hand, and the city built from them.

Curved and diagonal streets become blocks too.

Turn the middle of the city into a river with quay walls and a bridge for every street that crosses it. Public places fill whole blocks: a market with striped stalls, a floodlit football pitch, tennis and basketball courts, a sports hall, a supermarket, a filling station, a school and a car park.

Rivers with quays and bridges.

A market with striped stalls.

Pitches, courts, a sports hall and a school.

Blue hour on the river.

Pick a night sky and the city switches on: every window gets its own lamp colour and curtain, offices run on cool tubes and shop windows glow. Street lamps near the camera are real lights with shadows; further away they turn into painted pools of light that cost no render time.

The same city by day and by night.

Lit rooms, shop windows, real street lamps and wet asphalt.

Style sets the district mixes, heights and streets of every city object and the sky, haze, age, wetness and lit windows of the scene. Only what a style lists changes, so it is a starting point you can keep tweaking.

Everything is in the Metropol tab of the sidebar: build a city, pick a style, set the sky and mood and the viewport quality, and find every setting of the selected city object grouped as in its modifier.