WaterGenGodot VS godot_heightmap_plugin

waterways

godot 3.4, the water shader came with a river builder addon.

You can try the godot 4.0 branch of the Waterways Add-on https://github.com/Arnklit/Waterways/tree/godot4_0 Should have all the features you need, or at least a good starting point to implement your own. I don't know if the godot 4.0 conversion is fully done or not, but it does run in 4.0

How about adding a water level with the waterways addon and rubber ducks for physics testing and meme purposes?

I wonder if this plugin could be ported to Godot 4

Really amazing! Regarding the river: Have you seen the Waterways Add-On by /u/Arnklit? I didn't try it myself (only got aware of it from his posts here), but looking at the demo it seems to be a perfect solution for your water problem.

You can look through the code here: https://github.com/Arnklit/WaterGenGodot

Well not all these changes aren't in my repo yet, but they will be soon and you can look through the code. https://github.com/Arnklit/WaterGenGodot.

What I'm doing in this example is then setting the "Clarity" to 0 so the water is opaque and then setting the new albedo gradient and gradient depth like seen in the bottom of this thread: https://github.com/Arnklit/WaterGenGodot/issues/5

Well people can join my Patreon if they want to support me a bit. The tools I'm making for Godot are just free. https://github.com/Arnklit/WaterGenGodot

Zylann's repo has a v4-compatible branch that was last updated 4 days ago, and there seems to be another one working on this, and another one published a few months ago, plus there are lots of videos out there about doing it in other tools and then just importing the heightmaps / splatmaps in Godot (e.g. from devmar's YT channel).

godot_heightmap_plugin

Back in 3.0 I was using this plugin for heightmap terrain: https://github.com/Zylann/godot_heightmap_plugin

source: https://github.com/Zylann/godot_heightmap_plugin/issues/279

You can create terrain and paint it with the zylann.hterrain plugin. Currently only supports Godot 3.x.

Sweet, how's the tooling to actually make a playable textured level from a heightmap though? In 3.0 I had to rely on Zylann's excellent plugin which was all well and good but I needed to compile it for each platform I wanted to ship on, and editor integration was good but not perfect. Also procedural generation of terrain in-game wasn't practical.

As we know, there's a lack of a node similar to Unreal's Landscape and Unity's Terrain. I believe this hurts Godot more than generally assumed. There is of course Zylann's plugin for 3.x, but I believe an officially supported node for this would be incredibly beneficial. Zylann's plugin will most likely get updated for 4.x eventually, but I personally know people who were shocked to find out that this functionality was not in Godot 4 when it had so many improvements for 3D - and it ended up being the deal breaker that pushed them away.

The one I know is Zylann.hterrain which is gdscript but also not updated for 4.x