Wayfinder Sign Generator

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Design smarter. Render cleaner. Build signs with purpose. Pass the message!

From grimy alley warnings to polished hotel room plaques, Wayfinder Sign Generator gives you total control over signage in your 3D worlds. Modular, script-powered, and renderer-safe, this toolkit lets you write directly on your panel surfaces, layer grunge, customize frames, and mix pictograms - all with zero texture baking or LIE

At the core of this flexibility is a smart surface architecture: each panel includes a Front Panel, an Additional Writing Area (used for text by transparency), and a Dirt Layer. You can blend these independently for full control over visual style and material logic.

Write what you want, where you want:

Two very intuitive scripts are included, allowing you to write any text, in any font you own - either directly onto the Front Panel, or, for more flexibility, onto the transparent Additional Writing Area placed between the front and the dirt layer.

This second method offers advanced blending modes: solid, weathered, faded, or even textured. You can adjust these at any time after the text is added.

A unique feature lets you write on any flat surface in your scene, thanks to the included universal Free Writing Panel prop or to material presets. And here's the trick: you can make the panel itself completely transparent, so that only the text appears, as if it were painted or printed directly on the scene surface behind.

In both cases, just pick a font, adjust color and opacity, and your message is ready.

And because only the cutout opacity is driven by the text, all other material properties remain fully editable, so you can endlessly tweak the look and feel of your message without ever baking anything or rewriting it.

Build signs your way - fast or fine-tuned:

You can use the 17 preassembled signs, all provided in clean and decay versions, or build your own from scratch.

- Mix modular components: poles, screws, connectors, and panels. Over 100 individual props are included to let you build exactly what your scene requires.

- Add dirt, rust, or weathering effects to the front, the back, or both, using 38 partial material presets designed for this purpose - fully customizable after load (color, opacity, etc.)

- Insert pictograms as smart props using opacity maps - more than 130 patterns included, clean or damaged, aligned or off-kilter.
(Note: pictograms don't carry their own dirt layer, but if placed under the panel's Dirt Layer, they'll inherit its weathering naturally.)

Beyond the system - full freedom with individual props:

All panel shapes (rectangle, square, triangle, diamond, circle) are also available as standalone props, ready to use in any context. Resize them, rotate them, and place them wherever you want: on a mailbox, a fence, a doorframe, a wall...

Add house numbers, street names, locker or mailbox labels, 'No Trespassing'; signs, hotel door plaques, warehouse markers, zone IDs, public signage, sci-fi caution labels - or go large-scale with full billboards, dystopian alerts, or sprawling industrial ads.

The partial material presets and scripts work whether the panel is part of a full sign or used on its own. You keep full control over text, grunge, and style, no baking, no tricks, just direct feedback.

Anywhere a sign is flat - or if any flat surface in your scene calls for a message - Wayfinder Sign Generator is here for you.

You don't need this tool unless you care about quality, speed, and storytelling.
Warning: Not owning this product may cause existential discomfort and severe side-eye from your creative self.

What's Included and Features

Wayfinder Sign Generator: (.DUF)
Scripts:
- Open PDF Documentation
- Write On Front Panel Base Color
- Write Via Addon Opacity Surface
Signs Scene Subsets:
- 120x180 Clean
- 120x180 Decay
- 120x240 Clean
- 120x240 Decay
- 150x240 Clean
- 150x240 Decay
- 180x120 Clean
- 180x120 Decay
- 200x400 Clean
- 200x400 Decay
- 20x60 Clean
- 20x60 Decay
- 240x600 Clean
- 240x600 Decay
- 5 Fingers Clean
- 5 Fingers Decay
- 75x150 Clean
- 75x150 Decay
- 90x150 Clean
- 90x150 Decay
- Circle 70 Clean
- Circle 70 Decay
- Diamon 70 Clean
- Diamon 70 Decay
- Interstate 91 cm Clean
- Interstate 91 cm Decay
- Mid Panels Clean
- Mid Panels Decay
- Small Panels Clean
- Small Panels Decay
- Square 70 Clean
- Square 70 Decay
- Triangle 70 Clean
- Triangle 70 Decay
110 Individual Sign Building Props
170 Partial Material Presets
Bonus Files:
- Panel Transparent for Writing Area Activate
- Panel Transparent for Writing Area Reset
- Assembly 01 Red
- Assembly 02 Green
- Assembly 03 Yellow
- Free Glowing Writing Panel 100x100
- Free Writing Panel 100x100
- Panel Front Forest 1-3
- Panel PaperBoard
Textures Include:
- 322 Texture, Normal, Opacity, and Roughness Maps (512 x 512 up to 4096 x 4096
Daz Studio Iray Material Presets (.DUF)