Roadside Tales: Iowa Covered Bridges

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Roadside Tales: Iowa Covered Bridges URP is the next installment in the series focused on the quiet story unfolding closest to the player — right by his road. Inspired by historic structures from the state of Iowa, these bridges introduce raw wood, classic red, and a rural American vibe to the project, perfectly reinforcing the close, local narrative of space.

The set contains 8 unique, historic covered bridges, fully matched stylistically to the visuals and assumptions of the series. The models were built with walking simulators, narrative adventure games, RPGs, and exploration projects in mind.

Technical Details

• Meshes and prefabs: 10 meshes / 10 prefabs
• LOD support: 10 prefabs with LODGroup (3 levels)
• Materials: 3 diffuse (non-PBR)
• Shaders: 5 custom shaders (including: EA_CoolWater, EmacSkyboxURP + 2 additional)
• Textures: 8 terrain textures 1 x atlas texture for assets (range 256x256–2048x2048; common 1024x1024×10, 2048x2048×6)
• UV mapping: Yes (optimized for palette-based recoloring)
• Rigging / Animations: None
• Pipeline: URP

Render Pipeline Note

This package is configured to open in the Universal Render Pipeline (URP) by default upon import. If you intend to use the Built-in Render Pipeline, please refer to the included PDF documentation, which provides step-by-step instructions on how to properly convert and set up the project.

🛠️ Check out other packs from the Roadside Tales series

Build a complete, artistically cohesive ecosystem and enhance environmental storytelling in your project. These free packs perfectly complement each other functionally, speeding up work on outdoor locations:

• Roadside Tales: Modular Fence Narrative Pack & Spline Tool (PRO) Supplement and Automation: A powerful extension of the fence base featuring the advanced EasyFenceTool. It allows for express, procedural placement of barriers along splines directly on the terrain, drastically accelerating level design and world boundary definition.
• Roadside Tales: Free Modular Fence Narrative Pack Free Base Boost: The perfect entry point to the ecosystem. It offers over 120 basic, lightweight fence and wall prefabs that work organically with the PRO version, allowing for quick detail density in backgrounds without impacting game performance.
• Roadside Tales: Free Modular Bridge Narrative Pack Natural Connection of Space: An essential addition to road infrastructure. It delivers ready-made, stylistically matched bridges that logically connect areas cut by rivers, ravines, or terrain drops, completing the composition of paths and tracks.

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