Godot 4 Terrain Building (with Blender!)

Build some sweet terrains for your 3D game in Godot 4.
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[@kamazs]

Good video. I liked the format, narration and presentation.

[@Daniel-ih6uk]

Thank you for the lesson, super useful!

[@vizdotlife]

Keep it up! I've been curious how to use blender terrains for Godot

[@miusoft]

Awesome tutorial 😍
Please make the second part with 3 or more textures.
super useful 💖

[@michaeljburt]

You can get up to 4 using RGBA channels. If you need more, just need to add more textures

[@lonegamedevlongjourneyman]

pretty cool trick for making terrain Great video man

[@michaeljburt]

Glad you liked it!

[@firezacerick]

That's amazing! I loved your method. I was really considering using the addons but the way you found to it made much more sense for a better control of the details in the scenary. Do you have any idea about the LOD part? I am quite worry if this method can be a bit heavy when using multiple terrain tiles.

[@michaeljburt]

Godot does automatic LOD when importing meshes, which in my experience works very well on terrain-type meshes. The only other consideration you might have is if you are using multimeshes you would need to fade the instance count as the camera gets further away from the area.

[@firezacerick]

@@michaeljburt I think the point that I was considering was this second case, because I was think if it would be problematic to see the joins between other "terrains" if they are using the natural LOD of the engine.

[@michaeljburt]

@@firezacerick that's absolutely a valid point. Right now I'm making a small game that's just one tile so it's a fair criticism. Terrain3D will be a much more scalable solution (although it's much heavier)

[@karole5646]

I use unity but this actually interesting, thank you

[@moravianlion3108]

Interesting, thanks!
What are constraints for shaders in Godot? I am asking as, for example, I working on a procedural terrain generation for RAGE (GTA V) and I wonder if it is easily transferable into Godot, as it uses vertex coloring instead of blend maps/textures.

[@michaeljburt]

Not too difficult to access the vertex color in the fragment shader if you need to mix different textures using that. I have a video series on vertex painting actually, you might wanna take a look at that if it helps

[@ithillron4073]

when I use Trimesh static body, I cant move from my position. rest of the collision doesn't work, my player falls through it

[@michaeljburt]

Your player needs to have a CharacterBody3D and as long as it uses the same collision layer it should work

[@hongtuqi9182]

Can trees, flowers, and plants also be divided in this way?

[@michaeljburt]

Those would need to be done with a multimesh of some sort. I have a video on it if you're interested in vertex painting/multimesh in Godot