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New in 1.3 Available Now
- Wheel Inset: tucks the wheel and brakes into the tire, so the rim lip sits just inside the sidewall like a real fitment instead of poking out. Every wheel picks a realistic default.
- Wheel shaping: Face Curve (concave or convex spoke faces) and Bend Start, plus Hub Molding and Lug Pockets for forged hubs where the spokes flow into the centre.
- Real-world vehicle presets: 67 complete, one-click builds for sports cars, supercars, trucks and 4x4s, everyday cars, SUVs, winter setups and lowriders. Each one sets the size, tread, wheel, fitment, brakes and finishes, builds immediately (even in an empty scene) and adds a light, randomised layer of real-world weathering.
- New tread types: 25 real-world tread patterns, including 5 off-road all-terrain, rugged-terrain and mud-terrain designs with sidewall lugs, plus performance, touring, SUV and winter tires with their real sidewall markings.
- New wheels: supercar web and twin-spoke designs (Lamborghini-style Y-web and twisted Y, Ferrari-style split five, twin five and carbon 10-spoke, McLaren and Porsche-style forged wheels), and 5 lowrider wire wheels with twisted spokes, dish control and knock-off spinners.
- Wheel Generator: hand-model one spoke, hub sector and outer lip on a radial template, then capture it as your own wheel type. It fits any tire size, spoke count and spoke width, with procedural barrel, lugs, cap, valve and brakes.
- Caliper Generator: generate the standard caliper on a reference rotor, reshape it or replace it with your own model, and capture it as a new caliper style that fits any rotor size.
- New weathering: Scuffs (curb and road rash running around the sidewall, with Density and Scale controls), Water Spots (dried mineral spots and rings) and a heavier, patchier Dust layer.
- Every finish on every part: all 36 wheel finishes and 12 hardware finishes are now available for every wheel part, from the barrel to the lug nuts. Carbon fibre comes in fine, standard and large weaves.
- Rounder sidewalls: tires get a fuller, inflated sidewall bulge by default, with extra bulge on 4x4 and off-road tires.
Coming Soon
Based on feedback we're planning to add the following features:
1. More tire treads based on real world tires like we did with the Off Road vehicles in v1.3
2. More wheel sets based on real world supercars. Users can do this in v1.3 using the custom spoke generator, but we'll also be adding this
3. Additional weathering and layer effects to increase realism
4. Improvement of new vehicle presets to make 1-click realistic wheels and tires for all kinds of vehicles
5. New material types and customization options
Big Update! New Classes! (Automotive, Motorcycle, Bicycle, Industrial, Aviation)
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Original Introduction Video:
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+ |
The last wheel and tire tool you'll need. Choose a vehicle class, pick a tire size, tread, wheel and material look, then click Build. In seconds you get a production-quality wheel and tire: real tread geometry, a watertight wheel, hardware, brakes, sidewall lettering and mould vent spews, all sized to real-world specs.
Wheel and Tire Pro covers cars, trucks, motorcycles, bicycles, forklifts and aircraft. 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 colour every part and tune any value by hand.
Blender 5.0+ | Version 1.1.0 | Made by Ennjinn
New in 1.1
- Vehicle Classes: Automotive, Motorcycle, Bicycle, Industrial and Aviation, each with its own sizes, size formats, treads, wheels, brakes and material looks.
- Laced spoke wheels for bicycles and motorcycles: real cross-laced spokes, nipples, hubs, valves and an optional bicycle cassette.
- Motorcycle, bicycle and aircraft brakes: floating discs, radial calipers, bicycle disc rotors and a light-aircraft disc brake.
- Per-part colour control: set the finish of the wheel, spoke face, outer lip, beadlock ring, centre cap, cap accent, spokes, hub, lug nuts, rivets and caliper separately.
- Centre cap designs: 5 cap styles with your own logo, text, or any mesh resized to fit.
- Weathering: layer mud, dust, wet and tread wear onto any tire, and mud onto the wheel.
- More of everything: 63 tire sizes, 44 treads, 37 wheel designs, 29 material looks, 32 wheel finishes, 12 hardware finishes and 10 caliper colours.
- Studio Lighting: one click lights your scene with one of 8 built-in HDRI environments so chrome and paint have something to reflect.
Why Wheel and Tire Pro?
- Realistic results in a few clicks. Choose Class, Size, Tread, Wheel and Material, then Build. No modelling, no sculpting, no texture hunting.
- Over 90,000 ready-made combinations from Quick Setup alone, before you count lug styles, brake packages, centre caps, per-part colours and weathering.
- Everything fits automatically. Treads conform to the tire size, wheels fit the tire's rim diameter and width, and the hardware and brakes fit the wheel.
- Clean, production-grade geometry. Every wheel, brake and cap is watertight. Openings are wrapped in proper edge loops and fillets, so there's no pinching and no shading artefacts.
- Fully procedural materials. Photoreal rubber, paints, metals and carbon fibre 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.
Quick Setup
The top of the panel is all most people will ever need:
- Class: Automotive, Motorcycle, Bicycle, Industrial or Aviation. Picking a class loads a complete, sensible default build and filters every list below to parts that belong to that class.
- Tire Size: real-world sizes for the class, or type any size in that class's own format.
- Tread: parametric tread patterns for the class.
- Wheel: wheel designs for the class, plus "No Wheel" (and "Barrel Only" for cars).
- Lugs: 6 lug-nut styles on car-style wheels (each wheel picks a fitting default).
- Brakes: brake packages for the class.
- Material: complete looks for rubber, wheel, hardware and calipers.
- Sidewall: Blackwall, Raised White Letters, Whitewall or Tanwall.
- Sidewall features: tick boxes for Lettering, Size / Info markings, Vent Spews and Sidewall Relief, plus your own Brand and Model text.
- Build Tire & Wheel, then Finalize into a single finished object, or Keep Parts as separate objects.
The panel only shows controls that apply to the wheel you picked. For example, lug options appear only on car-style wheels, and spoke and cassette options appear only on laced wheels. 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.
Vehicle Classes
Automotive: cars, SUVs, trucks and off-road
- 17 sizes from 195/65R15 compacts to 37x12.50R17 flotation tires. Type any size in metric (285/70R17), P-metric (P225/45ZR17), LT (LT315/70R17) or flotation (35x12.50R17) notation.
- 18 treads, 15 wheel designs, 6 lug-nut styles, 16 bolt patterns and 6 brake packages.
Motorcycle: sport, touring, cruiser, adventure and motocross
- 11 sizes, from 80/100-21 dirt-bike fronts to 200/55ZR17 superbike rears, in radial (180/55ZR17) or bias (130/90-16) notation.
- 7 treads: Sport, Sport-Touring, Race Slick, Cruiser Rib, Dual-Sport 50/50, Motocross Knobby and Scooter. Motorcycle tires get a properly rounded crown so they look right leaned over.
- 5 wheels: Cast 3-Spoke Split, Cast 5-Spoke, Cast 6-Spoke Curved, Forged 10-Spoke and a 36-spoke laced Wire Spoke wheel for cruisers and dirt bikes.
- Brakes: Dual Floating Discs with radial 4-piston calipers, Single Floating Disc with a 2-piston caliper, or a solid Rear Disc. Floating discs have a separate carrier and floating buttons.
Bicycle: road, gravel, mountain, fat, BMX and city
- 13 sizes from 16" kids' wheels to 26x4.8 fat bikes. Type sizes the way they're printed on the tire: 700x25C, 650x47B, 29x2.4 or ETRTO 25-622.
- 8 treads: Road Slick, Road File Tread, Gravel, Cross-Country, Trail / Enduro, Fat Bike, BMX / Street and City / Commuter.
- 8 wheels: Classic Box Rim 32H, Aero 40mm 24H, Deep Aero 60mm 18H, Mountain 28H, Fat Bike Cut-Out 32H, BMX 36H, Carbon Tri-Spoke and a solid Disc Wheel.
- Built like a real wheel: spokes are cross-laced or radial, with flattened bladed spokes on aero rims. You also get nipples, flanged hubs, a Presta or Schrader valve and an optional 11-speed cassette for rear wheels.
- Brakes: 160, 180 or 203 mm disc rotors on a spider with a flat-mount caliper, or none for rim-brake bikes.
Industrial: forklifts, skid steers, utility and lawn equipment
- 11 sizes in industrial formats: pneumatic (6.50-10), three-number press-on (16x6x10.5), skid steer (10-16.5) and trailer / lawn (4.80/4.00-8, 13x5.00-6).
- 6 treads: Forklift Traction Lug, Press-On Smooth, Press-On Traction, Industrial Rib, Skid Steer (R-4) and Turf / Lawn.
- 5 wheels: bolted Split Rim, Stamped Steel Disc, Press-On Band Hub, Skid Steer 8-Lug and Utility 4-Lug.
- Includes a grey non-marking rubber look for warehouse forklifts.
Aviation: general aviation, bush planes, business jets and airliners
- 11 sizes, from 5.00-5 tailwheels to 50x20R22 airliner mains, in Type III (6.00-6), three-part (15x6.00-6) and radial (46x17R20) formats.
- 5 treads: Aircraft Rib, Light Aircraft Rib, Radial Wide Rib, Nose Rib + Chine (with a moulded spray-deflecting chine) and Bush / Tundra.
- 4 wheels: Light Aircraft Split Wheel with tie bolts, Bush Wheel, Business Jet Wheel and Airliner Main Wheel.
- Brakes: a light-aircraft disc with an external caliper. Airliner brake stacks sit inside the wheel, so they're hidden.
Treads: 44 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, from a 23 mm road bike tire to a 50-inch airliner tire. The number of tread repeats comes from the tire's circumference, and the groove layout scales to the tread width.
Automotive treads
| Tread | Character |
|---|---|
| All-Season Touring | Four straight grooves, siped centre rib, slanted shoulder blocks |
| Summer Performance | Asymmetric: wide solid inner ribs, big outer shoulder blocks |
| UHP All-Season | Curved lateral grooves and a solid centre rib |
| Directional V | Swept V-shaped grooves that channel water away |
| Rain Channel | Wide centre aqua-channel with swept directional grooves |
| Winter / Snow | Directional blocks packed with sipes for snow and ice grip |
| Studded Winter | Siped winter blocks fitted with carbide ice studs |
| Highway Rib | Zigzag circumferential ribs, commercial / long-haul style |
| Highway-Terrain SUV | Tough siped blocks and quiet ribs for SUVs and light trucks |
| All-Terrain | Staggered siped blocks with zigzag grooves for on / off-road use |
| Hybrid / Rugged-Terrain | Between all-terrain and mud-terrain, with big stepped shoulder blocks |
| Mud-Terrain | Aggressive lugs, large voids and sidewall shoulder lugs |
| Rally Gravel | Open square blocks for loose gravel |
| Commercial Drive Lug | Truck drive-axle traction lugs with deep lateral voids |
| Tractor Bar | Agricultural R-1 style chevron bars with deep open voids |
| Vintage Rib | Classic bias-ply look: zigzag ribs with notched shoulders |
| Track Semi-Slick | 200TW-style track tire: two grooves, solid ribs, notched shoulders |
| Slick / Racing | Smooth racing slick |
Plus 7 motorcycle, 8 bicycle, 6 industrial and 5 aviation treads (see Vehicle Classes above).
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, a touring tire looks rounded and a motorcycle tire has a full round crown.
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.
Wheels: 37 Designs
Every wheel is made to fit the tire: its bead-seat diameter and width come straight from the tire size. Cast and stamped wheels are a single watertight shell with a real rim cross-section: lip, J-flange, tapered bead seats, safety humps and drop-centre well. Bicycle rims get a proper hooked or hookless rim section, and industrial wheels get a flat-base rim.
Automotive wheels
| Wheel | Style | Default bolt pattern / lugs |
|---|---|---|
| Classic 5-Spoke | Straight, softly crowned cast alloy | 5x114.3 / Acorn |
| Split 5-Spoke (Y) | Five Y-spokes forking toward the rim, concave face | 5x112 / Lug Bolt |
| Twin 10-Spoke | Five pairs of slim parallel spokes | 5x120 / Lug Bolt |
| Multi 10-Spoke | Ten slim straight spokes, lightly concave | 5x112 / Lug Bolt |
| Directional 10-Spoke | Swept rotor-style spokes, deep concave face | 5x114.3 / Spline Tuner |
| Star 7-Spoke | Seven straight concave spokes, modern OEM / flow-formed look | 5x108 / Lug Bolt |
| Multi 20-Spoke | Twenty slim spokes, a fine technical luxury look | 5x112 / Spline Tuner |
| Cross-Spoke Mesh | Motorsport cross-spoke lattice, deep lip, assembly rivets | 5x120 / Lug Bolt |
| Modular 3-Piece | Ten-spoke centre bolted into a deep polished lip, with rivets | 5x114.3 / Spline Tuner |
| Vintage 5-Spoke | Muscle-car style wide tapered spokes and dished lip | 5x114.3 / Mag Shank |
| Aero Turbine | Sixteen swept turbine blades, flat low-drag EV face | 5x112 / Lug Bolt |
| Off-Road 6-Spoke | Chunky truck wheel with a deep lip | 6x139.7 / Acorn |
| Split 6-Spoke Truck | Six forked spokes for trucks and SUVs, concave | 6x139.7 / Acorn |
| Beadlock 8-Hole | Off-road disc with round windows and a bolted beadlock ring | 6x139.7 / Spiked |
| Steel Wheel | Stamped steel with oval vents | 5x114.3 / Open-End |
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). Motorcycle, bicycle, industrial and aviation wheels are listed under Vehicle Classes above.
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 cast design into a 3- to 20-spoke variant, or change the spoke count on laced wheels)
- 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.
- Motorcycle, bicycle and aircraft wheels are built around a centred hub and axle instead of a car's offset mounting face.
- A two-tone "machined face" finish can be applied to the forward-facing surfaces, while pockets and round-overs stay painted.
Centre Caps
Car-style wheels get a centre cap in one of 5 styles:
| Style | Look |
|---|---|
| Classic Dome | Domed cap with an accent ring |
| Ringed | Raised outer ring around a recessed, stepped centre |
| Flat Badge | Flat face with a raised border |
| Smooth Dome | Plain smooth dome |
| Hex Off-Road | Hexagonal off-road cap |
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Logo / branding on the Ringed, Flat Badge and Hex caps:
- Brand: your sidewall brand text
- Text: any custom text
- Object: any mesh you model, automatically centred and resized to fit the cap. Flat shapes like a filled circle or a traced logo are given a little thickness so they stay solid.
- The cap body and its ring / emblem area each have their own finish, so you can mix chrome, paint and anodised colours.
Hardware
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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 in 5 styles with optional logo (see above)
- Valve stem: a snap-in car valve angled through a window, or a Presta / Schrader valve on bicycle rims
- Beadlock ring with a full circle of washered bolts (on any car-style wheel)
- Assembly rivets around the lip on multi-piece designs, and tie bolts on split industrial and aircraft wheels
- Axle and axle nut on motorcycle, industrial and aircraft wheels
- Bicycle cassette: an 11-speed toothed sprocket stack for rear wheels
Every hardware item can be toggled on or off, and "Reset To Presets" brings it all back to the wheel's defaults.
Brakes
Brakes are built as a separate object, so the caliper can stay still while the wheel spins in an animation.
Automotive: 6 brake packages
| Package | Setup |
|---|---|
| OEM Standard | Floating caliper on a plain vented rotor |
| Sport | 2-piston fixed caliper on a slotted rotor |
| Performance | 4-piston monoblock on a cross-drilled rotor |
| Big Brake Kit | 6-piston monoblock on a drilled and slotted two-piece rotor |
| Race | 6-piston monoblock on a slotted two-piece rotor |
| Truck / Off-Road | Heavy floating caliper on a plain vented rotor |
- Mix and match 4 car caliper styles (6-Piston Monoblock, 4-Piston Monoblock, 2-Piston Fixed, OEM Floating) with 4 rotor styles (Vented, Cross-Drilled, Slotted, Drilled + Slotted).
- Optional two-piece rotor with a separate hat and bolts, and an optional raised caliper logo using your brand text.
- The caliper automatically sizes itself to clear the back of the spokes.
Motorcycle, bicycle and aircraft
- Motorcycle: dual or single floating discs with a carrier and floating buttons, radial 4-piston or sliding 2-piston calipers, or a solid rear disc.
- Bicycle: 160, 180 or 203 mm rotors on a spider with a flat-mount hydraulic caliper.
- Aviation: a light-aircraft disc with an external caliper.
Materials and Per-Part Colour
29 complete looks
Each class offers looks that suit it. Automotive, motorcycle and industrial builds share 16 car-style looks, and each class adds its own.
| Look | What you get |
|---|---|
| Showroom Silver | Fresh rubber, hyper-silver wheel, chrome lugs |
| Gloss Black | Fresh rubber, gloss-black wheel, black lugs |
| Machined Two-Tone | Diamond-cut face and lip with gloss-black pockets |
| Gunmetal | Gunmetal metallic wheel, daily-driven rubber |
| Chrome Show | Mirror chrome wheel and dressed (shiny) tires |
| Black Chrome | Smoked black-chrome wheel with gloss-black lugs |
| Off-Road Bronze | Matte bronze wheel, dusty trail rubber, raised white letters |
| Satin Bronze | Satin bronze wheel with a polished lip and black lugs |
| Motorsport Gold | Gold wheel, polished lip, titanium hardware |
| Dark Graphite | Dark graphite metallic, machined lip, red lugs |
| Satin Black Steel | Satin black wheel and well-used rubber |
| Muddy Gunmetal | Satin gunmetal wheel and mud-caked rubber |
| Polished Aluminium | Polished alloy with chrome lugs |
| Rally White | Gloss white wheel, black lugs, yellow calipers |
| Candy Red Custom | Candy-red wheel with a chrome lip and chrome lugs |
| Vintage Whitewall | Polished wheel on whitewall tires |
| Motorcycle: Gold Forged, Chrome Spokes, Dirt Bike | |
| Bicycle: Stealth Black, Carbon Race, Classic Silver, Trail Mud | |
| Industrial: Safety Yellow, Non-Marking, Machine Red | |
| Aviation: Aircraft Grey, GA White, Polished Aluminium | |
Colour every part separately
Start from a look, then change any part on its own:
| Part | Choices |
|---|---|
| Wheel / rim | 32 wheel finishes |
| Spoke face | Match the wheel, or any wheel finish for a two-tone look |
| Outer lip | Match the wheel, or any wheel finish (e.g. a polished lip) |
| Beadlock ring | Match the wheel, or any wheel finish |
| Centre cap and cap accent | Auto (contrasts with the wheel), any wheel finish, or any hardware finish |
| Hub | Match the wheel, or any wheel finish |
| Spokes (laced wheels) | 12 hardware finishes |
| Lug nuts / nipples / axle nuts | 12 hardware finishes |
| Rivets and bolts | Match the lug nuts, or any hardware finish |
| Brake caliper | 10 caliper colours |
| Tire rubber | 6 rubber looks |
| Sidewall | Blackwall, Raised White Letters, Whitewall, Tanwall / Gumwall |
- 32 wheel finishes: Hyper Silver, Bright Silver, Champagne, Chrome, Black Chrome, Polished Aluminium, Brushed Aluminium, Machined (Diamond Cut), Gloss Black, Satin Black, Matte Black, Hyper Black, Gunmetal, Satin Gunmetal, Dark Graphite, Anthracite, Matte Grey, Matte Bronze, Satin Bronze, Gloss Bronze, Dark Bronze, Copper, Gold, Gloss White, Matte White, Candy Red, Candy Blue, Racing Green, Carbon Fibre, Safety Yellow, Aircraft Grey, Machine Red
- 12 hardware finishes: Chrome, Black Chrome, Black, Satin Black, Zinc Plated, Stainless, Gunmetal, Burnt Titanium, and Gold, Red, Blue and Purple Anodized
- 10 caliper colours: Red, Black, Yellow, Orange, Blue, Green, Gold, Silver, White, Gunmetal
- 6 rubber looks: New Rubber, Tire Shine, Daily Driven, Dusty Trail, Muddy, Non-Marking Grey
Shader detail
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Rubber:
- separate sidewall and tread materials
- micro-texture bump and roughness break-up
- soft sheen, and an optional tire-shine coat
- white-letter, whitewall and tanwall rubber
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Paint and metal:
- clear coat with subtle orange peel, and metallic flake sparkle
- bright mirror chrome, smoked black chrome and anodised colours
- machined lathe rings with anisotropic highlights
- woven carbon fibre under a clear coat
- brake dust in occluded areas
- Brakes: machined cast-iron rotor faces with procedural drilling and slots, a subtle heat tint, 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.
Weathering
Take any build from showroom-fresh to well-used with a few sliders, layered on top of any material look:
- Mud: caked mud that collects in the tread grooves and lower sidewall
- Dust: a dry dust film over the rubber
- Wet: darker, glossier rubber
- Tread Wear: worn, dulled tread. This also lowers the actual tread blocks in the geometry.
- Wheel Mud: mud splatter on the wheel
- Brake Dust: grime in the wheel's crevices
Sidewall Detail
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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
- Sidewall styles: Blackwall, Raised White Letters, Whitewall, or Tanwall / Gumwall.
- Sidewall relief: fine mould rings, plus a rim-protector rib above the flange on car and truck tires.
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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:
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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 on a car 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. Each panel only shows the controls that apply to your class and wheel:
- Weathering: mud, dust, wet, tread wear, wheel mud and brake dust
- 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, centre cap style and logo, cassette
- Brakes: package, caliper style, rotor style, two-piece rotor, caliper logo
- Materials: rubber look, sidewall style and a finish for every wheel and hardware part
- 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.
- Studio Lighting: one click sets up a lit scene using one of 8 built-in environments (Studio, Courtyard, City, Sunset, Sunrise, Forest, Interior, Night). Your existing World is kept.
- 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
- Motorcycle and bicycle models, from superbikes to fat bikes
- Industrial, warehouse and construction scenes
- Aircraft landing gear, from light aircraft to airliners
- Vehicle modelling for film, animation and games
- Off-road, overland, motorsport and weathered "lived-in" 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.
- Updating from 1.0? Uninstall the old version first (or install over it), then restart Blender.
- Open the 3D Viewport sidebar (N) and find the Wheel & Tire tab.
Three steps to your first wheel
- Pick a Class, then a Tire Size, Tread, Wheel and Material.
- Click Build Tire & Wheel.
- Click Finalize. Done.
Wheel and Tire Pro: realistic wheels and tires for every vehicle, from size to sidewall, in one tool.
