Roadside Tales: Iowa Covered Bridges

◼ EmaceArt Discord Community ◼ Jump in to our Discord to Learn, Create and Share! 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. Includes 8 historic covered bridges in two structural designs and multiple weathered variants, plus a full modular construction kit for custom layouts. The surrounding environment covers a complete riverside setting: custom water, animated grass, skybox, terrain layers, fences, and natural props — all LOD-optimized and ready to use. Additionally, the project includes an atmospheric demo scene featuring supporting assets from my other packages. Technical Details - 8 stylized covered bridge designs — historic plank-and-beam construction, ready to drop into any rural, fantasy, or low-poly scene - Arch/pier module for extending or customising bridge spans - Custom water shader (EA_CoolWater) with animated caustics — designed specifically to sit under or beside the bridges - Stylized animated grass (EmacEArt_StylizedGrass) with a full in-editor GUI; wind speed, direction and density controllable without touching shader code - Custom procedural skybox (EmacSkyboxURP) with an in-editor colour editor - 5 hand-crafted terrain layers: Grass, Flower Field, Pebble Shore, Rock Slope, Leaf Forest — paint a complete riverside biome without additional assets - Vegetation & props: trees, hay bales, rocks, wooden furniture (courtesy of bundled NatureForge LITE assets) - Fence set: ranch-style, stone-wood, meadow, stakes, curved sections, gates, and a watchtower — spline-compatible, from the Roadside Tales Fence Pack - Demo scene showcasing everything assembled in a countryside river environment - Spline demo scene for the fence layout workflow What's inside: Bridges — 8 prefabs - 2 structural designs × multiple weathered variants (a–e) Bridge Modular Kit — 41 prefabs - Pier supports: 10 - Wooden structural elements: 7 - Wooden floors: 7 - Railings: 7 - Roofing sections: 2 - Columns: 2 - Walkway planks: 6 Fences & Stakes — 25 prefabs - Panel fences: 11 (big, curved, straight) - Fence legs & posts: 9 - Ranch fences: 2 - Peg legs / stakes: 3 Nature & Environment — 14 prefabs - Gravel bars (riverbank): 6 - Grass variants: 3 (live, dry, dead) - Tree: 1 - Tree trunks: 2 - Rocks, roots, hay bales, branches (from bundled NatureForge LITE): 7 bonus Terrain — 7 layers - Grass, Flower Field, Pebble Shore, Rock Slope, Sand Base, Mud Path, Leaf Forest Shaders — 3 custom - Water (animated caustics), Stylized Grass (wind), Skybox (procedural) Scenes — 2 - Demo scene, Spline scene - 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. Performance-friendly by default Almost every prefab ships with a 3-level LODGroup pre-configured, so the pack is usable in mobile-targeted projects right out of the box. Median LOD0 complexity is around 1,000 triangles; the heaviest bridge prefab peaks at ~113K tris (useful as a hero asset in close-up cinematic shots). Atlas texturing All meshes share a compact atlas-based UV layout. This means you can palette-swap the entire visual style — wood tone, roof colour, stone tint — by editing a single texture, with no material duplication. Included documentation - URP Setup Guide (PDF) — covers post-processing profile, render pipeline asset settings, and common gotchas in Unity 2022+ - Stylized Grass Manual (PDF) — parameter reference for the grass shader 🛠️ Check out other packs from the Roadside Tales se