Add vehicles, pedestrians, and traffic lights

drawtonomy ships templates for the actors and traffic elements you need in driving scenarios.

Vehicles

1. Press P to open Participants.
2. Pick a vehicle from the icon grid (hover an icon to see its name). More… expands the grid to the full template set.
3. Click on the canvas to place. The vehicle drops at its template default size.

A vehicle placed on a lane turns to face the lane’s direction of travel automatically. Placed away from any lane, it points north. To adjust the heading — or flip it 180° for oncoming traffic — select it with the Select tool (V) and drag the rotation handle (the dot above the selection box). Drag a corner handle to resize.

Pedestrians

In the same Participants menu, pick a pedestrian template (Walking, Simple).

Traffic lights

The Participants menu also includes vehicle and pedestrian signals. Place them at intersection corners. On the drawing canvas they are static shapes. To drive a signal phase — or give any actor motion and behaviour — take the scene into the Scenario editor, where you add actions and trigger conditions and run the storyboard in the browser.

Custom templates

You can add your own SVG templates and contribute them by PR. See the Template Guide.

Populating a path with vehicles

To place a row of vehicles along a path (for headway diagrams or follow-the-leader scenes), use Path Footprint.

See also

• Scenario editor — give the actors you placed motion and behaviour, then run the scenario.
• Build your first scenario