Vehicles
How to change vehicles between your stops
A great travel animation mixes transport modes the way your real trip does — plane to the country, car to the region, bike for the last mile. Travel Story Maker lets you assign a different vehicle to every segment of your route, and renders the transitions for you.
Why change vehicle between stops?
Each transport mode has its own visual language: planes draw a curved flight line, cars and trains follow real roads, boats trace a sea path. Mixing them mirrors how the trip actually happened and makes the animation more believable.
Select a segment
In the sidebar, expand the stop that ends the segment. The vehicle for the leg arriving at this stop is shown at the top. Click it to open the vehicle picker.
Pick from the 3D catalog
Travel Story Maker ships with 25+ vehicles in 3D Fluency style: car, motorbike, truck, bus, train, plane, helicopter, boat, sailboat, bike, scooter, rocket and more. Each one is oriented automatically along the heading of the route.
Flight vs road behavior
Air vehicles (plane, helicopter, rocket) automatically draw a great-circle flight curve between the two stops. Ground vehicles snap to the closest routable road network. There is nothing to configure — pick the right vehicle and the path adapts.
Tip: use the same vehicle across many segments
If most of your trip is by car, set the default vehicle in the Animation panel. New stops added after that will inherit it automatically — you only override the few segments that need a different vehicle.
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