Earthmover – Excavator Generator for Blender

Rigged excavators, dozers, loaders, rollers and dump trucks

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Earthmover builds construction machines inside Blender: crawler, mini and wheeled excavators, backhoe loaders, wheel loaders, skid steers and compact track loaders, bulldozers, road rollers, rigid and articulated dump trucks, site dumpers and motor graders. Pick one of 54 designs modeled on the machines working on real sites, from a 1 t micro digger to a 90 t mining excavator, then change anything and watch it rebuild live.

Every machine comes rigged. Booms, sticks, buckets, loader arms, blades, rippers, stabilizers, dump bodies and the articulation joint each have one slider, and the hydraulic cylinders follow every pose: barrels and rods slide in and out, the bucket linkage folds like the real four-bar, and telescopic hoists extend in stages. Pick a pose (Travel, Dig, Reach, Dump, Rest) with one click, or keyframe the sliders to animate a full dig cycle.

Tools and attachments include dig, trench, ditch and rock buckets, a hydraulic breaker, a sorting grapple, a ripper tooth and crusher jaws; loaders take general, rock, high volume and 4-in-1 buckets or pallet forks. Dozers get straight, semi-U, U and angle blades with single or multi shank rippers.

A real hydraulic rig

Boom, stick and bucket each have one slider. The cylinders slide and the bucket linkage folds with every pose, so a full dig cycle is a few keyframes.

A real hydraulic rig

54 machines to start from

Crawler, mini and wheeled excavators, backhoes, wheel and track loaders, dozers, rollers, dump trucks and graders. Pick one and change anything.

54 machines to start from

Loaders lift and dump

Z-bar and parallel loader arms raise, roll back and dump with their linkage and cylinders following.

Loaders lift and dump

Liveries and wear

Nine liveries or your own colors, from showroom clean to working, worn or abandoned: chipped edges, mud, dust and rust.

Liveries and wear

Finish

Choose a livery (construction yellow, earthmover orange, lime, red, blue, white, green, gunmetal, sand or your own colors) and a condition from showroom clean to working, worn or abandoned: chipped edges, caked mud rising from the ground, dust and rust, all with PBR materials that also export to game engines.

Features

  • 54 designs in 10 families, 12 machine kinds
  • Rigged hydraulics: cylinders and linkages follow every pose
  • One-click poses and keyframing for animation
  • Steel tracks with triple or single grousers, rubber tracks, road pads and big earthmover tyres
  • Cabs, canopies, handrails, ladders, mirrors, beacons and work lights
  • 8 excavator tools, 5 loader tools, 4 blades, rippers and dump bodies
  • Liveries and wear: edge chipping, mud, dust, rust and faded paint
  • Picture-driven sidebar, Surprise and Vary buttons, Shift+A menu
  • Works in Cycles and EEVEE

Requires Blender 4.2 or newer. Tested on Blender 4.2, 4.5 and 5.2 LTS.

Install in under a minute (Blender 4.2+)

  1. In Blender open Edit › Preferences › Get Extensions.
  2. Open the arrow menu at the top right and choose Install from Disk.
  3. Pick the downloaded zip. Do not unzip it.

Questions

Which Blender versions are supported?

Blender 4.2 and newer. It is tested on Blender 4.2, 4.5 and 5.2 LTS.

Can I animate the machines?

Yes. Every joint is one slider on the machine's root object, and the hydraulic cylinders follow automatically. Keyframe the sliders (Key Pose does all of them at once) to animate digging, lifting or tipping.

Can I use the machines in a game engine?

Yes. The parts are ordinary meshes with PBR materials (base color, roughness, metallic, normal). Apply or bake the wear into textures for engines that do not read Blender's attributes.

Details

Version
1.0.1
Blender
4.2 or newer
Tested on
4.2, 4.5 and 5.2 LTS
Render engines
Cycles, EEVEE
Category
Modeling
Download
6.8 MB zip
License
GPL v3
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