Rocket & Launch Pad Generator builds detailed launch vehicles standing on a full launch complex in one click, in real-world meters. Pick one of 17 ready-made rockets: a reusable booster with grid fins and landing legs, a triple-core heavy, a hydrogen heavy, a twin-solid heavy, a common-core rocket, a big reusable, a strap-on heavy, a small carbon rocket, a stainless super-heavy with its ship, a three-stage moon rocket, a strap-on classic, a crewed heavy, a winged orbiter stack with external tank and solid boosters, a sounding rocket, a checkered war-era missile, a toy model rocket on its launch rod and a retro sci-fi rocket.

Then change anything and the rocket rebuilds live: one to three stages, diameters and lengths, interstages, engine types and clusters from a single bell to 33 engines, fairings, capsules with escape towers, side boosters, fins, grid fins, landing legs, finishes, lettering and flags.

Every rocket is modeled to be looked at up close: engine bells with nozzle extensions, hatbands and turbopump plumbing, stage separation lines, raceways, stringers and ribs, insulation foam with its real texture, heat shield tiles, carbon interstages and painted lettering that sits just off the skin. The launch pad has a flame trench, a steel launch table with hold-down clamps, a lattice umbilical tower with swing arms and a crew access arm, a strongback or a catch tower with arms, lightning towers with catenary wires, a water tower and a propellant farm.

Launch Time animates the whole launch through drivers: engines ignite, exhaust flames and smoke grow and the rocket climbs, all in real time without a rebuild.

One click, a new rocket
Press Surprise Me for a new launch vehicle: stages, engines, boosters, nose, finish and pad rebuild live in the viewport.

Over 15 ready-made rockets
Reusable boosters, a winged orbiter, a moon rocket, a steel ship, strap-on classics, missiles, sounding and model rockets. Every one can be changed.

Lift-off, animated
One Launch Time value drives the flames, the smoke and the climb off the pad. Animate Launch keys it for you.

Add boosters
Up to six side boosters: liquid cores, segmented solids or tapered strap-ons around any core.

Landing legs
Landing legs (and grid fins) fold out on one slider, ready to keyframe for a landing.

Features

• 17 presets in 5 groups: modern, heavy lift, crewed, small and fun
• 1 to 3 stages, solid, open truss and vented interstages, hammerhead upper stages
• Gas generator, staged combustion, hydrolox, solid and multi-chamber engines in 10 cluster layouts
• Ogive, von Karman, conic, biconic and elliptic fairings, capsules with escape towers, ships and retro noses
• 0 to 6 side boosters: liquid cores, solid motors and tapered strap-ons
• Fins, grid fins and landing legs that fold out with one animatable slider
• Finishes: white, painted, black, carbon, silver, insulation foam, stainless steel, roll pattern, checker and cardboard
• Lettering you can type into, flags and stripes, soot, frost and pad scorch
• Mound, mobile launcher, rail and model pads with lattice, strongback and catch towers
• Animate Launch: one click keyframes ignition, lift-off and the climb with flames and smoke volumes
• 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 rocket names and flags 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.