# Citylith

> Citylith is a plugin for Autodesk 3ds Max (2024 to 2027, Windows) that builds real places as 3D context from map and government data: welded streets, bridges and ramps at their real heights, survey terrain, water and buildings. It is made by HM Studio for architects and architectural visualisation artists. Status: Early Access opens on 20 November 2026; there is a waitlist.

Key facts:

- Streets: one welded road surface for the whole network, junctions included, with sidewalks, kerbs, crossings and road markings. Bridges, ramps, underpasses and tunnels sit at their real levels.
- Ground: government survey elevation in 24 countries and territories (in whole or in part), global elevation everywhere else. Government aerial photos in 22 countries. Rivers, lakes and the sea; quay walls or natural shores.
- Buildings: measured official 3D buildings with real roofs where governments publish them (the Netherlands, Switzerland, New York City, Vienna, Japanese cities with official models, 14 German states, part of Estonia). Everywhere else: footprints and heights from OpenStreetMap with regional facades (140 sets in 19 regions).
- Life: trees and street furniture from the map; cars from a traffic simulation, placed as Chaos Cosmos models, Forest Pack or splines.
- Scale: from one block to a whole city. Whole cities are built as square tiles outside 3ds Max that fit together exactly.
- Renderers: materials for V-Ray, Corona or Arnold.
- Every family of objects goes on its own named layer; on the Studio plan, a rebuild of a single area keeps the user's edits.
- Not built: interiors, copies of individual buildings (a few famous landmarks come as models), Google 3D Tiles or photogrammetry, moving cars.
- Data: streets from OpenStreetMap (ODbL, credit "© OpenStreetMap contributors"); results may be used in client work, renders and animations. The 3D files themselves may not be sold or shared, for example on model stores.
- Plans: Basic $99, Pro $299 and Studio $699 a year. Custom builds of any area, made for the client, from $190.
- Contact: info@citylith.com

## Pages

- [Home](https://citylith.com/): what Citylith builds, how it works, numbers and FAQ
- [Features](https://citylith.com/features): everything it builds, family by family, with what is in testing or coming
- [Coverage](https://citylith.com/coverage): build quality to expect in each place
- [Pricing](https://citylith.com/pricing): the plans and what each one builds
- [Custom builds](https://citylith.com/custom): order an area built for you, prices and delivery times

## Legal

- [Credits](https://citylith.com/credits): data sources and the credits they require
- [Licence agreement](https://citylith.com/licence)
- [Privacy](https://citylith.com/privacy)
- [Terms](https://citylith.com/terms)