Terrains in Godot: Not Quite Ready Yet

I recently tried doing a bit of game development in the Godot game engine, which I find to be a lovely piece of software! However, I ran into some difficulty when trying to get terrains working, which are not natively supported for now, but are available as a third party plugin. So, let's jump in and see what breaks and how I solved my issues (though you might not like it). The process of getting terrains working: 01:00 get the heightmap 02:08 do some processing (optional) 03:00 split the heightmap into chunks 03:45 get a terrain plugin for Godot 04:15 import everything into Godot (follow the docs) 06:20 switch to Godot 4 (because of issues in Godot 3) 10:08 submit a bug report, fix the code yourself, or just switch to Unity lol Godot specific terrain issues: 05:00 PNG only 8 bit (jaggy), RAW broken (GIMP) 05:28 render artifacts (Godot 3 only) 07:20 broken stitching (no tools to fix in-engine) 07:48 broken shaders (normal maps ignored sometimes) 08:40 broken texture painting (offsets/sizes) 09:02 broken textures at runtime (old data) 16:28 can't do changes across adjacent terrains 17:29 no adjacent terrain creation (example of such feature in Unity) In short, I love the Godot engine, but it and some of the plugins need a bit more time before being truly "production-ready" for 3D projects.