Bins & Mailboxes Generator
Procedural bins, dumpsters and post boxes for any street
Bins & Mailboxes Generator builds the small things every street, park, office and backyard needs, right inside Blender: wheelie bins from 240 L household bins to 1100 L containers, rows of colored recycling bins and wooden bin stores, galvanized cans, pedal and office bins, park and street litter bins in cast iron, perforated steel, wood slats and concrete, bag holders and lamp-post bins, recycling stations, solar compactors, bottle banks, glass igloos, underground bins, front-load dumpsters, roll-off containers and builder's skips.
The mail side is just as wide: round and hexagonal pillar boxes, lamp and wall boxes, a blue collection box, a rural mailbox on a wooden post with its flag, cluster mailbox banks, parcel lockers, newspaper boxes, door letterboxes and post boxes in the style of Japan, Germany, France, China, Russia, Australia and India. Every emblem is a generic symbol, so the models are safe to use in commercial work.
Pick one of 40 designs, then change anything: the object rebuilds live while you drag a slider. Open the lid, fill the bin until it overflows, drop bags and litter around it, add dirt, rust, dents, stickers and graffiti, or press Surprise for a brand new one.
One click, a new bin
Press Surprise for a fresh random bin or mailbox, or pick a design from the picture gallery. Everything happens in the sidebar.
40 designs
Wheelie bins, park bins, recycling stations, dumpsters and skips, pillar boxes, rural mailboxes, parcel lockers and post boxes from around the world.
Open, fill, overflow
Lids are hinged parts. Raise the fill level and garbage piles up until it props the lid open, with bags and litter around it.
From new to wrecked
Dirt, rust, fade, dents, stickers and graffiti on a slider, on top of physically based materials.
Any color scheme
Waste-stream color coding per unit, random paint schemes and painted text and pictograms.
Features
- 40 designs in seven families: wheelie bins, indoor bins, street and park bins, recycling, dumpsters and skips, post boxes and mail
- Round, box, polygon and half-round bodies with taper, flare, plinth, ribs and bands; solid, perforated, slatted or barred walls
- 8 tops and 4 lid types with a real hinge and an open angle, from flat and dome lids to split dumpster lids and rain hoods
- 13 mounts: wheels, casters, feet, legs, posts, twin posts, pedestals, walls, brick piers, skids and underground tanks
- Letter slots, chutes, flaps, bottle holes and recycling apertures, panel, arched, glazed and locker doors
- Painted text, pictograms, hazard and reflective stripes, waste-stream color coding per unit
- Dirt, rust, fade, dents, graffiti, stickers, overflowing garbage, bags and litter
- Concrete pads, paving, sidewalk curbs and bin store enclosures
- Surprise, Vary, Colors and Wear buttons, a picture gallery in the sidebar and a Shift+A menu
- Game-ready: real scale, origin on the ground, UVs, named parts in their own collection, PBR materials with scanned CC0 textures, three detail levels, Make LODs and Convert to Mesh
- 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+)
- In Blender open Edit › Preferences › Get Extensions.
- Open the arrow menu at the top right and choose Install from Disk.
- 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 use the models in a game engine?
Yes. Everything is built at real scale with the origin on the ground, UVs, named parts and PBR materials. Make LODs creates three joined meshes at high, medium and low detail, and Convert to Mesh gives you plain meshes to export.
Are real postal logos included?
No. The post boxes follow the shapes and colors of boxes around the world but use generic symbols (an envelope, a post horn, a star, free monogram letters), so you can use them in commercial work. You can type any text you like.
Can the lids be animated?
Yes. Each lid is its own object hinged at the right place, so you can keyframe its rotation, or use the Lid Open slider.
Details
- Version
- 1.0.0
- Blender
- 4.2 or newer
- Tested on
- 4.2, 4.5 and 5.2 LTS
- Render engines
- Cycles, EEVEE
- Category
- Modeling
- Download
- 1.3 MB zip
- License
- GPL v3