Helicopter Generator

Helicopter Generator builds detailed, ready-to-render helicopters in one click, in real-world meters. Pick one of 15 ready-made helicopters: a light piston trainer with a bubble canopy, a classic bubble helicopter with a truss boom, a news turbine, a police patrol helicopter, a medical twin with a fenestron, a corporate twin on retractable wheels, a Huey-style and a Hawk-style utility helicopter, a tandem-seat attack helicopter with stub wings and weapons, a heavy tandem-rotor transport with a rear ramp, a coaxial helicopter, a NOTAR helicopter, a sky crane, a search and rescue helicopter with a hoist and a cartoon toy.

Then change anything and the helicopter rebuilds live: fuselage length, width, height and nose shape, canopy, doors and windows, tail boom, tail rotor, fenestron or NOTAR, fins and stabilizers, main rotor layout, diameter, blade count, chord, twist and tip shape, rotor head type, engine, landing gear, mission equipment, weapons and livery.

Every helicopter is modeled to be looked at up close: rotor heads with hub, swashplate, pitch links and dampers, blades with a real airfoil, twist, erosion strips and painted tips, engine cowlings with intake grilles and exhausts, doors and windows with frames and rubber seals, and a cockpit with seats, an instrument panel and controls that you see through the glass.

Rotors spin through drivers at the RPM you set, with a spool-up time and counter-rotating tandem and coaxial rotors. One click sets up motion blur for Cycles and EEVEE. Doors, the ramp and the retractable gear are animated sliders that never rebuild the mesh.

Features

• 15 presets: light piston, bubble, news, police, medical, corporate, utility, attack, heavy tandem, coaxial, NOTAR, sky crane, search and rescue and toy
• Single, tandem and coaxial rotors with 2 to 8 blades, teetering, articulated and hingeless heads, square, swept, parabolic, BERP and round tips
• Tail rotor on either side, fenestron, NOTAR or none, swept, pylon, T-tail, twin and endplate fins
• Skids with optional floats, tailwheel, tricycle, retractable, quad and long sky-crane legs
• Searchlight, FLIR turret, rescue hoist, cargo hook, wire cutters, mast radar, antennas, steps and chin gun
• Stub wings with rocket pods, missiles, gun pods or fuel tanks
• Liveries: solid, two-tone, stripes, swoosh, news, police, medical, rescue, military, camouflage, desert, navy and VIP, painted into one texture with no z-fighting
• Real panel layout in the paint: panel lines, rivet rows, access panels, light edge wear, rain streaks and exhaust soot, with a Wear slider
• Navigation lights, beacon and tail light, with real lamps you can switch on and off
• 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 registrations and names 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.