godot_heightmap_plugin VS godot-demo-projects

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

For a menu that appears next to the object in 3D space take a look at: https://github.com/godotengine/godot-demo-projects/tree/master/viewport/gui_in_3d

You can improve on it by looking at existing stuff you might have missed there are: - demo projects - docs - other implementations, including some seemingly recent ones

Check out 2D in 3D demo project.

Since Godot 4.0, you have access to the content_scale_factor Window property, which is effectively a 2D scale factor that can be used with any stretch mode. You don't need to change the UI theme or scale Control nodes manually – doing so will lead to difficult-to-resolve problems. Check the Multiple Resolutions demo for 4.x.

The Godot 4 Platformer 3D demo uses a grid, and for me it doesn't have the issue you mentioned. Project here - https://github.com/godotengine/godot-demo-projects/tree/master/3d/platformer

Hello, thank you so much for your detailed answer! In the site, there's a demo project (Saving and Loading (Serialization) demo project) that helped me get a better grasp of how saving/loadng works. However, in this project exists only one scene/level, if i have multiple scenes/levels, how do i save those so the player will continue from the scene they saved on? Do i do this from the var save_dict ? How do i go about this?