How do people go about making terrain in Godot 4.3?

[oblique copper]

I am completely new to godot and game design. This is my 4-5th day using godot.

My question is how do people go about making terrain. It seems like this is a feature that's maybe lacking in godot since all that I'm finding during my research is just either blender or complex addons/plugins.

I am trying to make a PSX style game, so I only need some simple low poly geometry for my terrain. What I am looking to achieve is to simply replace my flat plane.
Does anyone know of any simple or good way to go about getting custom terrain in godot?

[frail oyster]

It's not a core feature since there are a bunch of different ways to do 3D terrain. I think Terrain3D (https://github.com/TokisanGames/Terrain3D) is very commonly used though

[oblique copper]

Thank you. Although I did try that earlier. Only gave it a quick shot but it turned out to be somewhat complicated, especially on MacOS, so I tried to look elsewhere, but I shall give it another real attempt this time. Again, thank you. This did answer my question, which was concerning what was the normal way to go about it. 😊

[warped wharf]

Common ways to do terrain are plugins like above (and some else), or straight out modelling the terrain in blender

[oblique copper]

I have very little knowledge about blender. I've always been sceptical of making say terrain in blender since I feel like it may be hard to edit the terrain and tweak it after it has been imported. Is that the case? How is the workflow if I were to make it in blender?

[warped wharf]

I am probably wrong guy to ask about terrain and blender since my pc is so slow I can't properly do it but

Usually you start with a plane that is subdivided into grid. Then you use sculpting tool to raise / lower / overall shape the terrain
Then you texture it
Send as mesh to godot, maybe with import hint so godot will automatically create a staticbody for it
If you turn out need to change something, go back to editing step above

I haven't tested terrain3d plugin, but there is another heightmap terrain plugin by zylann thay I have used before and it works more or less the same, except it has easier texturing but less editing tool than blender

[oblique copper]

I will try it out. Thank you!

[tired nexus]

I use blender for my terrain. It’s surprisingly easy to make changes, and I have a bit of a complex set up

This is absolutely the way to go IMO