Wheel and Tire Pro

One-stop wheel and tire shop... the last tool you'll ever need for wheels and tires.

Pick a tire size from real-world tire sizes, a tread from real-world tread designs, a rim and a material look, click Build, and get a production-quality wheel and tire in seconds: real tread geometry, a watertight one-piece wheel, lug nuts, centre cap, valve stem, brake rotor and caliper, sidewall lettering and vent spews, all sized to real-world specs.

Wheel and Tire Pro covers a car, truck or off-road build from start to finish. It's quick enough for blocking out a scene and detailed enough for close-up product renders. Everything is procedural and parametric, so every preset fits every size and you can still tune any value by hand.

Blender 5.0+  |  

Why Wheel and Tire Pro?

• Realistic results in a single click. Choose Size, Tread, Rim and Material, then Build. No modelling, no sculpting, no texture hunting.
• 30,600 ready-made combinations straight from Quick Setup (17 sizes × 12 treads × 15 rims × 10 looks), or 183,600 once you count the 6 lug-nut styles. Mixing tire looks, wheel finishes, lug finishes and caliper colours separately gives 675 material combinations on their own.
• Everything fits automatically. Treads conform to the tire size, wheels fit the tire's rim diameter and width, and the hardware fits the wheel.
• Clean, production-grade geometry. Every wheel is a single watertight shell. Openings are wrapped in proper edge loops and fillets, so there's no pinching and no shading artefacts.
• Fully procedural materials. Photoreal rubber, paints and metals with no image textures to manage.
• Live preview. Drag any slider and the tire and wheel rebuild in well under a second.
• Full manual control underneath the presets, for when you want to go custom.

The top of the panel is all most people will ever need:

1. Tire Size: 17 real-world sizes, or type any size you like.
2. Tread: 12 parametric tread patterns.
3. Rim: 15 wheel designs, plus "Barrel Only" and "No Wheel".
4. Lugs: 6 lug-nut styles (each rim picks a fitting default).
5. Material: 10 complete looks for rubber, wheel, lugs and calipers.
6. Sidewall features: tick boxes for Lettering, Size / Info markings, Vent Spews and Sidewall Relief, plus your own Brand and Model text.
7. Build Tire & Wheel, then Finalize into a single finished object, or Keep Parts as separate objects.

Reset To Presets restores every value (hardware, tread tuning, materials) to the selected presets at any time, while keeping your sidewall text and tick boxes.

Tire Sizes: 17 Presets + Any Custom Size

Each preset sets the section width, overall diameter, rim diameter and the correct rim width for that size, and the tread and wheel re-fit automatically.

Custom sizes: type any size in metric (285/70R17), P-metric (P225/45ZR17), LT (LT315/70R17) or flotation (35x12.50R17) notation and the matching rim width is worked out for you.

Treads: 12 Parametric Patterns

Treads are generated from geometry, not normal maps. Every pattern is built from real ribs, straight or zigzag circumferential grooves, slanted and curved lateral grooves, and sipes. Blocks have chamfered edges and drafted walls, and they wrap over the shoulder and fade into the sidewall like a moulded tire.

Patterns auto-fit any size: the number of tread repeats comes from the tire's circumference, and the groove layout scales to the tread width.

Each tread preset also shapes the tire's cross-section to suit it (crown, shoulder radius, sidewall bulge, tread width), so an off-road tire looks square and a touring tire looks rounded.

Tread fine-tuning

• Tread depth (the overall diameter is kept true to size)
• Pitch length and exact pitch count
• Groove width scale
• Block edge chamfer
• Sipes on / off
• Detail level: Low (game-ready), Medium, or High (close-up renders)

Bring your own tread

• 3D Mesh: tile any mesh you model as a tread block around the tire, with rotation, depth scale, spacing and multiple bands across the width.
• Normal Map: a smooth, low-poly tread band carrying a tiled normal map, ideal for games.
• Mesh + Normal: real 3D blocks with a normal map on top for extra fine detail.

Rims: 15 Wheel Designs

Every wheel is made to fit the tire: its bead-seat diameter and width come straight from the tire size. Each one is a single watertight one-piece shell with a real rim cross-section: lip, J-flange, tapered bead seats, safety humps and drop-centre well.

Plus Barrel Only (a bare rim barrel with flange, lip and drop-well controls, as a starting point for your own wheel) and No Wheel (tire only).

Wheel controls

• Offset (ET): low and negative offsets produce a genuine deep lip
• 16 bolt patterns: 4x100, 4x114.3, 5x100, 5x108, 5x110, 5x112, 5x114.3, 5x120, 5x127, 5x130, 5x139.7, 6x135, 6x139.7, 8x165.1, 8x170, 8x180
• Centre bore
• Face concavity
• Spoke width
• Spoke count override (turn any design into a 3- to 20-spoke variant)
• Mesh resolution

Built like the real thing

• Every window, fork slot, vent and lug pocket is wrapped in edge loops with a rolled front edge (fillet), plus support loops on the walls. Smooth shading, no pinching.
• Spokes have a soft crown and fillets that blend smoothly into the hub pad and outer ring.
• A two-tone "machined face" finish is applied automatically to the forward-facing surfaces, while pockets and round-overs stay painted.

Hardware

• Lug nuts in 6 styles, placed on the selected bolt pattern:
  • Acorn (Closed): classic conical-seat nut with a chamfered hex and domed top
  • Open-End: hex nut with the threaded stud showing through
  • Spline Tuner: slim fluted tuner nut
  • Lug Bolt: European-style bolt head with an integrated washer
  • Mag Shank: flat-seat nut with a washer and long shank, for classic wheels
  • Spiked: acorn nut with a long conical spike, for truck / off-road styling
• Centre cap with an accent ring
• Snap-in valve stem with a rubber body and metal cap, angled through a window just like the real part
• Beadlock ring with a full circle of washered bolts (on any wheel)
• Assembly rivets around the lip on multi-piece designs
• Brakes: vented rotor with cooling vanes and hat, plus a rounded caliper that automatically clears the back of the spokes. Built as a separate object so the caliper can stay still when you animate the wheel.

Every hardware item can be toggled on or off, and "Reset To Presets" brings it all back to the rim's defaults.

Materials: 10 Complete Looks

Mix and match

• 5 rubber looks: New Rubber, Tire Shine, Daily Driven, Dusty Trail, Muddy
• 9 wheel finishes: Hyper Silver, Gloss Black, Satin Black, Gunmetal, Chrome, Matte Bronze, Machined Face / Black, Brushed Aluminium, Gloss White
• 3 lug finishes: Chrome, Black, Burnt Titanium
• 5 caliper colours: Red, Black, Yellow, Blue, Silver
• Brake dust slider to add grime to the wheel's crevices

Shader detail

• Rubber:
  • separate sidewall and tread materials
  • micro-texture bump and roughness break-up
  • soft sheen, and an optional tire-shine coat
  • worn tread surfaces
  • dust and mud that collect in grooves and crevices
• Paint and metal:
  • clear coat and metallic flake sparkle
  • machined lathe rings with anisotropic highlights
  • brake dust in occluded areas
• Brakes: machined cast-iron rotor faces, a darker rotor hat, and gloss-painted calipers.

Everything is 100% procedural: no image files, nothing to relink. Finalized tires get their own copies of every material, so building the next tire never changes one you've already finished.

Sidewall Detail

• Raised lettering on both sidewalls, reading correctly from each side like a real moulded tire:
  • your brand
  • a model name (your own, or named after the tread)
  • the tire size, plus RADIAL, TUBELESS and M+S where appropriate
  Letters have bevelled edges that catch the light.
• Sidewall relief: a rim-protector rib above the flange and fine mould rings.
• Custom sidewall markings (unlimited):
  • Text in any font
  • Stamp: any mesh object (logos, badges, patterns)
  • Image: greyscale height maps displaced into real geometry (raised or engraved), or normal-map decals
  • Each marking can be placed on either side or both, positioned, rotated and scaled, repeated around the tire, or wrapped all the way round as a seamless band

Vent Spews (Mould Hairs)

New tires come out of the mould covered in tiny rubber hairs, one of the strongest cues that a tire is real. Wheel and Tire Pro places them the way real moulds are vented:

• Realistic (Mould Vents) layout:
  • about one vent per tread block, with big lugs getting more
  • evenly spaced vent rings on both sidewalls
  • scales automatically with tire size and tread, typically 650 to 1,250+ hairs per tire
• Hairs sit on the actual surface: block tops, groove floors, shoulders and even lettering.
• Controls: density, areas (tread, shoulder, sidewall), length and length variation, thickness, tip taper, lean, side count and random seed.
• A Random Scatter mode with a fixed hair count is also available.

Full Manual Control (Advanced)

Below Quick Setup, every part of the build can be tuned by hand:

• Tire Size: section width, overall diameter, rim diameter, rim width
• Tread: pattern tuning, or switch to your own mesh tile / normal map
• Crown: crown drop and shape across the tread
• Shoulder / Sidewall: shoulder radius, sidewall bulge, upper and lower curve
• Bead / Casing: bead width and casing thickness
• Wheel: design, offset, bolt pattern, bore, concavity, spokes, resolution, hardware, lug style, beadlock
• Materials: rubber look, wheel finish, lug finish, caliper colour, brake dust
• Wheel Barrel (Barrel Only mode): fit-to-tire or manual size, flange height, bevel and shape, drop centre, front and rear lip, wall thickness, segments
• Sidewall Markings: text, stamps and image imprints
• Tire Body: resolution around the tire and across the cross-section
• Options: weld seams, smooth shading and auto-smooth angle
• Vent Spews: layout, density and hair shape
• UVs: a seamed unwrap (bead openings plus a single cut) or Smart UV Project, applied on Finalize or on demand

Finishing and Workflow

• Live preview: every change rebuilds instantly so you can dial in a look by eye.
• Finalize: joins the tire, wheel, hardware and (optionally) brakes into one finished object with its origin at the axle centre, ready to duplicate across a vehicle. The builder then starts fresh for the next tire.
• Keep Parts: keeps the tire, wheel and brakes as separate objects, parented together.
• Real-world scale: built in metres with centimetre display, so wheels drop straight into your vehicle at the right size.
• Clean topology: the wheel face is all quads with edge loops around every opening, and every wheel is watertight. Tread blocks are closed solids with structured quad tops.

Perfect For

• Automotive visualisation and product renders
• Vehicle modelling for film, animation and games
• Off-road, overland and motorsport builds
• Game assets (Low detail mode plus Normal Map treads for lightweight versions)
• Quickly filling scenes with varied, believable wheels and tires

Requirements and Installation

• Blender 5.0 or newer
• Install via Edit > Preferences > Get Extensions > Install from Disk and choose the downloaded .zip.
• Open the 3D Viewport sidebar (N) and find the Wheel & Tire tab.

Three steps to your first wheel

1. Pick a Tire Size, Tread, Rim and Material.
2. Click Build Tire & Wheel.
3. Click Finalize. Done.

Wheel and Tire Pro: realistic wheels and tires, from size to sidewall, in one tool, made as simple as possible, with as much customization as possible.