Pier & Dock Generator
Procedural piers, docks, marinas, quays and breakwaters
Pier & Dock Generator builds complete waterfront structures inside Blender: a cast-iron Victorian pleasure pier with its domed pavilion, a lake jetty, a floating marina with finger piers, a New England lobster wharf, a stone harbour quay, a ferry terminal with its linkspan, a tetrapod breakwater or a lagoon of thatched water villas. Pick one of 29 designs, then change anything: every part is a number, a choice or a switch, and the pier rebuilds live as you drag.
Lay it out straight, as an L, T or U, with a head platform and rows of finger piers, or draw a curve and the walkway follows it, every spline becoming its own walkway, rebuilding while you edit the curve.
Eight structures cover how real piers stand: timber pile bents with bracing, stilts and lashed poles, cast-iron screw piles with lattice girders, concrete and steel piles, floating pontoons on guide piles, battered stone quay walls and rubble mounds armoured with rock, tetrapods, accropodes, dolosse, X-blocs or cubes.
Raise or lower the water level and floating docks ride the tide while the fixed piles show a wet band, green weed and barnacles where the sea reaches them.
One click, a new pier
Pick a design in the sidebar and the whole pier rebuilds: piles, deck, railings, lamps, fittings and buildings.
29 real-world designs
Victorian and promenade piers, water villas, marinas, lobster wharves, stone quays, ferry terminals, container berths, breakwaters and lake docks.
Draw it with a curve
Move the points of a curve and the boardwalk follows it live, piles, boards and railings included.
Drag a slider, watch it rebuild
Every part is a number, a choice or a switch. Here a promenade pier stretches out while the slider moves, and its piles, lamps, benches and kiosks follow.
Floating docks ride the tide
Lower the water level: the floating dock and its gangway follow the water, while the fixed wharf shows its wet band, weed and barnacles.
Features
- 29 real-world designs in 6 groups: lake and river, seaside, marina, harbour and port, breakwaters, tropics and stilts
- Straight, L, T and U plans, pier heads, finger piers on one or both sides, or any curve you draw
- 8 structures: timber, stilts, cast iron, concrete, steel, floating, stone and rubble mound
- 6 breakwater armour units: rock, tetrapod, accropode, X-bloc, dolos and cube
- Decks of planks, concrete, paving or grating, with kerbs, missing boards and crane rails
- 9 railings: rope, chain, timber, picket, pipe, cable, Victorian cast iron, glass and parapet wall
- Bollards, cleats, 7 kinds of fenders, ladders, life rings, benches, power pedestals, mooring rings
- Victorian, lantern, modern and bollard lamps that light up, with real lights for night renders
- Pavilions, boathouses, water villas, fishing shacks, kiosks, harbour beacons and ferry terminals
- Gangways, boat ramps, quay steps, ferry linkspans, abutments, water and sea bed
- Tide, weed, barnacles, weathering and silver-grey timber, with Poly Haven textures packed in
- UV-mapped game-ready meshes, three detail levels and Convert to Mesh for export
- Surprise, Vary and Colors buttons for endless new piers
- Picture-driven sidebar with seven tabs and a 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+)
- 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 piers in a game engine?
Yes. Every part is a UV-mapped mesh with Principled BSDF materials. Pick the Low detail level, hide the water if you have your own, use Convert to Mesh and export as usual (FBX, glTF).
Can the pier follow my own path?
Yes. Select a curve object and press Add Along Curve, or set the plan shape to Curve and pick the curve. Every spline becomes a walkway, and the pier rebuilds live while you edit the curve.
Are the textures included?
Yes. The wood, concrete, stone, rock, rust and thatch textures are CC0 textures from Poly Haven, packed inside the addon, so nothing has to be downloaded.
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
- 6.1 MB zip
- License
- GPL v3