godot-docs VS godot_heightmap_plugin

There are a few companies to choose from here: https://github.com/godotengine/godot-docs/blob/master/tutori...

I cannot tell exactly where the jitter is from the video, but if it is what I'm thinking of, it is a known issue, see here. There is a proposal to fix this, with tons of discussion here. Try some of the workarounds mentioned in these two links. Game looks great by the way!

Does this work? https://github.com/godotengine/godot-docs/suites/14013343820/artifacts/782181592

I'd suggest opening an issue on https://github.com/godotengine/godot-docs so we remember to document this on Playing videos :)

Documentation can sometimes be lacking, particularly with 4.0 since it's relatively new, but the Q&A board can usually fill in the gaps. And if you really want to help out you can post an issue in the documentation github so future people are saved the grief.

Some examples can be seen in this thread: https://github.com/godotengine/godot-docs/issues/5901

the Godot docs: Despite having (in my opinion) some problems with clutter and organization, the docs offer some beginner tutorials and some... well... documentation that's useful for beginners and experienced game devs.

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