Castles, pagodas and temples from one modifier

Japanese Building Generator is a procedural Geometry Nodes modifier for Blender that builds Japanese castles, pagodas, pavilions and temple halls. Drop it on any object, get a finished building with materials, then shape every storey, roof and stone with sliders.

5 ready-made buildings
69 parameters
Geometry Nodes modifier
2K PBR materials included
Blender 4.5 LTS – 5.2
Cycles & EEVEE

One modifier

Five buildings, one modifier

Castle, Pavilion, Pagoda, White Castle and Temple Hall are presets of the same generator, each with its own materials. Start from one, then make it yours.

The five buildings in turn while the camera circles — **Castle → Pavilion → Pagoda → White Castle → Temple Hall**Each one is a node group asset with its own defaults and materials.

Features

What it does

Drop it on any object

Pick a building in the Asset Browser or in a Geometry Nodes modifier on any mesh. A cube will do: the building is generated on top of it, at the object's origin.

Materials included

Every building arrives with its own set of 2K PBR materials (ambientCG, CC0): weathered and vermilion wood, plaster, tiles, granite and castle stone, gold and bronze.

69 parameters, 8 panels

Storeys, footprint, roof curve and upturn, gables, pillars, brackets, balconies, windows, stone base, stairs, ivy, spire and materials. All live, all non-destructive.

Real geometry details

Round tile rows, onigawara ridge ends, rafters, tokyo brackets, shoji lattices, barred windows, 3D stone courses with sangi-zumi corners, lanterns and ivy.

Gables done right

Curved chidori-hafu dormers with layered bargeboards and rosettes, hip-and-gable irimoya tops and golden shachihoko on the ridge.

Ready to render

Two scenes included: an outdoor set with grass, gravel and trees, and a studio set with a checker floor and a camera per building. Cycles and EEVEE.

Live and procedural

Shape it with sliders

Roof curvature and corner upturn changing — **Roof Curvature & Corner Upturn**From straight hip roofs to deep, swept eaves.

A pagoda growing from one to seven floors — **Floors**One to twelve storeys; each one tapers and shortens by your ratios.

Changing the modifier inputs in Blender — **Right in the modifier panel**Inputs are grouped in panels: Generator, Footprint, Roof, Gables, Structure, Base, Spire, Materials.

Videos

See it in Blender

Quick startFrom a cube to each of the five buildings, with their materials.

Parameters tourFloors, footprint, roof, gables, structure, base, spire and custom materials.

Gallery

The five buildings

Japanese Building 1 - Castle — **1 · Castle**Timber castle keep on a battered stone base, with wooden stairs, ivy and lanterns

Japanese Building 2 - Pavilion — **2 · Pavilion**Cross-plan vermilion pavilion on a stone platform, balustrades and steps on every side

Japanese Building 3 - Pagoda — **3 · Pagoda**Five-storey vermilion pagoda with a sorin spire and wind bells

Japanese Building 4 - White Castle — **4 · White Castle**Himeji-style keep: white plaster, grey tiles and gables on every roof

Japanese Building 5 - Temple Hall — **5 · Temple Hall**Wide single-storey hall with a hip-and-gable roof and lattice doors

Specs

What you get

5building assets

69modifier inputs

16PBR materials, 2K

2scenes: outdoor & studio

Included

One .blend with the generator and the five building node groups, marked as assets with previews. A textures folder with the 2K ambientCG maps. An outdoor scene (grass, gravel, trees, sky HDRI) and a studio scene (checker floor, a camera per building).

Requirements

Blender 4.5 LTS or newer; tested in 4.5 and 5.2. No add-on to install: it is a Geometry Nodes modifier. Buildings are 120k–290k vertices; tile ribs, stone blocks and roof resolution can be turned down for the viewport.

Quick start

Three steps

Open japanese_building_generator.blend, or add its folder as an asset library.
Drag Japanese Building 1 – Castle (or any of the five) from the Asset Browser onto a mesh, or add a Geometry Nodes modifier and pick it from the list.
Change any input in the modifier panel. Turn on Custom Materials to swap materials per slot.

Read the documentation →