kitfox changed the title to New addon for blocking in 3D levels .

kitfox Looks great. What do you think of generating block by script too ?
I mean, we fill a 2D array (or later a 3D array), with 1x1x1 cube block to start, and we'll got all 3D blocks added for us. This would be nice for random/procedural level generation, for instance to make a 3D dungeon like old classic Dungeon Master/Chaos Strike Back.

Also, it would be better to add a direct link to your github project on your post.

      That's excellent!! It would also be nice to be able to do a wall rounding…

      It must be hard to replicate Sweet Home 3D in Godot?

        JusTiCe8 Yes, you could create a script like that. For now I'm working on lower level stuff, but I could definitely see writing scripts to autogenerate basic layouts.

        I've updated the original post to include a link to the Github page.

          Tomcat Something like Sweet Home 3D would be a lot of work and would require a different approach to what I did in Cyclops. But I could see something like that running in Godot.

          You can make the walls appear rounded by using a lot of small blocks and arranging them in a circle. Maybe a script could be developed to layout something like that automatically in the addon.

              kitfox You can make the walls appear rounded by using a lot of small blocks and arranging them in a circle.

              Looks like that's what's done there — the rounded wall is broken up into small straight sections. I guess I'll just use the Sweet Home 3D export for starters. Unfortunately, glTF is not supported there.

                This is looking crazy good 👍️

                kitfox You can make the walls appear rounded by using a lot of small blocks and arranging them in a circle. Maybe a script could be developed to layout something like that automatically in the addon.

                For convex rounded walls It'd probably be easy to add a cylinder primitive, which is just an n-sided prism. And for concave walls something like a (partial) tube that's parametrized by inner/outer radius, a swipe angle and a number of steps. The editor would then generate N adjacent quadrilateral prisms arranged in a circular pattern to form a pipe. This it's tedious to do by hand but could be quickly implemented on top of what you already have.

                    xyz something like a (partial) tube that's parametrized by inner/outer radius, a swipe angle and a number of steps

                    That's a quadric, which looks intimidating like this but libGLU can handle them with ease, code is open-source so, if needed, it can be used as reference unless there is some way to access openGL low level layers from Godot and expose the API.

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                        JusTiCe8 I meant a regular hollow cylinder. It can simply be done by assembling slanted quad prisms, which @kitfox already has implemented.
                        Like this:

                        No need to go into mathematical parametric surfaces.

                            xyz It can simply be done by assembling slanted quad prisms, which @kitfox already has implemented.

                            Yeah, it's very similar to the one in Sweet Home 3D.

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                              xyz There's now a Cylinder tool in Cyclops, so you can create shapes like this now.