Water Tower Generator

Procedural water towers from steel legs to rooftop tanks

Water Tower Generator builds every kind of elevated water tank right inside Blender: the classic American town tower on four or eight steel legs with its name painted on the tank, pedestal spheroids, fluted columns, composite towers and hydropillars, wooden rooftop tanks on New York buildings, railway water stops with a swinging spout, brick and stone towers from Germany, France and the Netherlands, Soviet Rozhnovsky towers, Gulf mushroom towers, Indian concrete tanks on frames, farm and ranch tanks, standpipes, ground reservoirs, plastic tanks and novelty towers shaped like a peach, a coffee pot, a bottle, a balloon or a golf ball.

Pick one of 38 designs modeled on real towers, type your town's name, then change anything: the tower rebuilds live while you drag a slider. Everything is in real-world meters with the origin on the ground. Convert to Mesh or Make LODs turns a tower into plain, named, UV-mapped meshes with PBR materials based on scanned Poly Haven textures, ready for games and film.

One click, a new tower

Press Surprise for a fresh random water tower or pick a design from the picture gallery. Everything happens in the sidebar.

One click, a new tower

38 real-world designs

American town towers, spheroids and fluted columns, European brick towers, Soviet and Gulf concrete icons, railway and farm tanks and novelty towers.

38 real-world designs

Paint your town's name

Type a name and it is painted around the tank, in any color, with an optional second line and drop shadow.

Paint your town's name

Drag a slider, watch it rebuild

Every part is a number, a choice or a switch. Legs, tanks and roofs rebuild live while you drag.

Drag a slider, watch it rebuild

Any paint job

Solid, top, bands, checker and stripe patterns, two colors and a painted roof, or bare steel left to rust.

Any paint job

Features

  • 38 real-world designs in six families: steel legs, pedestal and modern, rooftop and farm, European, around the world and novelty
  • 7 tank shapes (drum, sphere, spheroid, fruit, bottle, coffee pot, balloon), 6 bottoms including torus cone and Intze, 8 roofs from cones and domes to spires, onion and bell roofs
  • 10 supports: steel legs with round, square, H-beam or latticed sections and tie-rod, X, K or strut bracing, pedestals, fluted and wide columns, brick, stone or concrete shafts, concrete frames, timber trestles, rooftop steel frames, small stands or straight on the ground
  • Painted town name with a second line and a drop shadow, wrapped around the tank, plus solid, top, bands, checker and stripe paint patterns
  • Catwalks and railings, caged ladders, roof ladders, railway spouts, turrets, finials, vents, hatches, cell antennas and red warning lights that can blink
  • Bases: footings, a fenced pad, a plinth or the top of a city building
  • Steel, wood staves, corrugated iron, plastic, concrete, brick, stone and plaster with weathering and rust
  • Surprise, Vary and Colors buttons, a picture gallery in the sidebar and a Shift+A menu
  • Game-ready: real scale, origin on the ground, named parts and materials in their own collection, 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+)

  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 use the towers in a game engine?

Yes. Towers are 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.

Can I put my own town name on the tank?

Yes. Type it in the name field at the top of the panel. It is real geometry wrapped around the tank, with its own material, so you can pick the color, size, height and how many times it repeats around the tank.

Does it work in EEVEE?

Yes, in both Cycles and EEVEE. The materials use scanned CC0 textures from Poly Haven that ship with the addon.

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
2.1 MB zip
License
GPL v3
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