RoadRunner

Design 3D scenes for automated driving simulation

RoadRunner is an interactive editor that lets you design 3D scenes for simulating and testing automated driving systems. You can customize roadway scenes by creating region-specific road signs and markings. You can insert signs, signals, guardrails, and road damage, as well as foliage, buildings, and other 3D models. RoadRunner provides tools for setting and configuring traffic signal timing, phases, and vehicle paths at intersections.

RoadRunner supports the visualization of lidar point cloud, aerial imagery, and GIS data. You can import and export road networks using OpenDRIVE^®. 3D scenes built with RoadRunner can be exported in FBX^®, glTF™, OpenFlight, OpenSceneGraph, OBJ, and USD formats. The exported scenes can be used in automated driving simulators and game engines, including CARLA, Vires VTD, NVIDIA DRIVE Sim^®, Baidu Apollo^®, Cognata, Unity^®, and Unreal^® Engine.

RoadRunner Asset Library lets you quickly populate your 3D scenes with a large set of realistic and visually consistent 3D models. RoadRunner Scene Builder lets you automatically generate 3D road models from HD maps.

Get Started:

Road and 3D Scene Modeling
Prebuilt and Customizable Assets and Signs
Functional Road Networks and Traffic Signals
GIS Import
Export to Simulators

Road and 3D Scene Modeling

Use RoadRunner to create realistic, complex, interconnected road networks consisting of intersections, bridges, roundabouts, turnouts, and road markings.

Road Modeling

Create road shapes by specifying curvature, vertical slope, and blends, including cross-sectioning, banking, and crowning.

Create Roads Using the Road Plan Tool

Create Offramps, Onramps, and Road Splits with the Slip Road Tool

Getting Started with RoadRunner (14 videos)

Complex Intersections

Design complex intersections featuring merges, splits, and roundabouts.

Customize Junction Creation

Getting Started with RoadRunner: Creating Custom Junctions in RoadRunner

Road and Surface Markings

Add detailed road surfaces with lane markings, stencils, and custom graphics.

Creating a Crosswalk and Stop Line

Getting Started with RoadRunner: Lane Marking Creation in RoadRunner

Prebuilt and Customizable Assets and Signs

Build RoadRunner scenes with a library of 3D models in RoadRunner Asset Library. Create and place customizable and region-specific road signs, barriers, signs, posts, lights, and other road furniture.

RoadRunner Asset Library

Leverage a library of prebuilt assets that provides hundreds of models, including road and highway signs, traffic signals, road surface markings, trees, barriers, and road textures, such as cracks and oil spills.

RoadRunner Asset Library

Leverage prebuilt assets from RoadRunner Asset Library.

Customize Road Signs

Use the integrated road sign editor to combine text and graphics when building custom signs. Create international and region-specific signs with Unicode support.

Getting Started with RoadRunner: Road Sign Creation with RoadRunner

Functional Road Networks and Traffic Signals

Design road networks and traffic signals that are ready to use in simulation environments.

Complex Road Networks

Generate road networks with lane and intersection connectivity for use in automotive and traffic simulation environments.

Manipulate Individual Road Path Maneuvers

Getting Started with RoadRunner: Junction Creation in RoadRunner

Traffic Signals

Edit signal phases and timing with the integrated signal timeline and interactive viewport controls.

Configure Junction Signalization and Signal Traffic Phases

Getting Started with RoadRunner: RoadRunner Signal Editor

GIS Import

Build 3D scenes with real locations by importing aerial imagery, elevation data, lidar point clouds, and roadmaps to accurately represent physical locations in RoadRunner.

GIS Import Tools

Import elevation maps into RoadRunner.

Export to Simulators

Export scenes created in RoadRunner to industry standard formats, including openDRIVE, FBX, glTF, OpenFlight, OpenSceneGraph, OBJ, and USD. RoadRunner scenes export to a variety of simulators and gaming engines, including CARLA, Vires VTD, NVIDIA DRIVE Sim, Cognata, Metamoto^®, LGSVL, Baidu Apollo, Unity, and Unreal Engine.

Importing and Exporting Scenes with RoadRunner (2:47)

Exporting to OpenDRIVE

Exporting to CARLA

Export to Metamoto

Integrating RoadRunner with MATLAB-Simulink (7:22)