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  • How to build 3D terrain.

I want to generate terrain. Like in the World Editor of Warcraft III. I saw the GridMap example, but that was too "blocky". I want to make my terrain look more organic with curves and then add textures, shaders, lighting etc.For this I need to generate a mesh of class MeshInstance using the SurfaceTool class right? I tried doing that. But it seems too creepy crazy. How do I have control over the vertices? Am I supposed to use triangles? How do I make this happen? How do I sew all those triangles to seem like one seamless organic terrain mesh?Please Help.

1). Download Blender (www.blender.org)2). Download Godot's [i]better collada[/i] exporter3). Place the better collada exporter into Blender's addons folder4). Activate the addon in Blender and model a terrain mesh5). Export it as a .dae file using the addon and use Godot's importer to see it in the engineI assume you might be new to the concept of a 3D game creation pipeline (hence the steps).

I know that pipeline. But I want to do it programmatically. From GDScript within Godot. So that it can be procedurally created to be different in every time you start a new game.Actually I just first want to create a terrain editor in Godot. Something like the terrain editor of Warcraft III Known as the "World Editor". That was just beautiful and simple.

Well, that would definitely be a handy tool for Godot users.Blender definitely doesn't have a map editor like W3 or Unity. I do remember that in the old forum there was a guy who introduced us to his own project of map editor (open source), initially made for another engine (in java). I do remember that at this time the editor could not export to any workable format for godot, but the author was trying to fix that.Sorry but I can't remember the name of the editor. It must be somewhere in the archives of the forum.

The author of IrrRPG builder was trying to make it used for Godot?! Wow! This is amazing! I saw IrrRPG builder before, in pursuit of a W3 WorldEditor-like 3D Editor. I will certainly send him a message. Thanks Gokudomatic! :D