Windmill & Water Mill Generator

Windmill & Water Mill Generator builds every machine that wind and water ever turned, right inside Blender: a thatched Dutch smock mill on its reefing stage, an English tower mill with patent sails and a fantail, a Suffolk post mill, the white cloth-sail mills of Mykonos and La Mancha, a Persian panemone, an American farm windpump, onshore and offshore wind turbines, Darrieus and Savonius rotors, overshot and undershot water mills, a Norse mill, a ship mill and the giant norias of Hama. Pick one of 42 designs modeled on real mills, then change anything: the mill rebuilds live as you drag a slider.

Everything is in real-world meters and ready for games and film. The sails, rotors, fantails and wheels are separate objects with their pivot on the axle and a looping spin animation at the speed you set in rpm, so a whole valley of mills can turn with one click. Water flows down the race, the flume and over the wheel. Convert to Mesh or Make LODs turns a mill into plain, named, UV-mapped meshes with PBR materials based on scanned Poly Haven textures.

Features

• 42 real-world designs in 11 machine types: post, tower and smock mills, panemones, windpumps, wind turbines, vertical-axis turbines, water mills, Norse mills, ship mills and norias
• 6 sail types: common cloth, spring, patent shutters, boarded, Mediterranean jib cloth and bare skeleton frames, with 2 to 12 sails
• 6 cap shapes (ogee, dome, cone, boat, Dutch thatched, gable), fantails or tail poles, reefing stages and galleries
• Post mills on open trestles, roundhouses or Dutch hollow posts
• Wind turbines with 1 to 6 blades, three nacelles, tubular, lattice or guyed towers, onshore pads, monopiles and jackets in the sea
• Darrieus, H-rotor, helical and Savonius rotors
• Overshot, pitchback, breastshot and undershot wheels with buckets or paddles, in wood or iron, with millraces, flumes, sluice gates and falling water
• Animated sails, rotors, fantails and wheels with speed in rpm, direction and start angle
• Brick, stone, plaster, adobe, weatherboard, tarred boards and thatch, with weathering
• Surprise, Vary and Random Finish buttons, a picture gallery in the sidebar and a Shift+A menu
• Game-ready: real scale, origin on the ground, three detail levels, Make LODs, 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.