[FIXED!] TerrainPaths V1.1 - Create smooth paths for terrain

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TerrainPaths [V1.1]

Hey everyone, @AntiBoomz0r and I worked on this plugin for the last few days and wanted to share for free! It still needs some work and bug fixes, but I wanted to get it into your hands early

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Have you ever tried making a smooth winding path around a mountain , or a smooth slope for roads or players to travel on?

It’s a bit of a nightmare with the studio tools, they require a high amount of effort to produce smooth paths

We made a plugin that lets you draw out and adjust spline curves and click render to conform the terrain to your path!

Here's a more detailed video of it in action - with a timelapse at the end of me creating a cool winding path around a mountain

Features

  • Create, export, or load a spline

  • Radial menu with Spacebar for quick access to modes
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  • Move nodes around by dragging a node or the handles

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  • Adjust the width of nodes by dragging the handles

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  • Add more nodes to the spline

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  • Delete nodes from the spline

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  • Subdivide nodes to add more detail

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  • Bridge Toggle

    • By default, terrain will be filled all the way up to the spline from the ground

    • You can instead choose which segments act as a land bridge which prevents them from filling all the way to the ground

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Settings

I'll do my best to explain these

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  • MinWidth
    • Controls the minimum width of all segments. Final width is calculated as the maximum value between a point’s width and this setting

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  • Smoothness

    • Controls the smoothness of the conformity
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  • Strength

    • Controls the overall strength of the effect, recommended value is 1

  • HeightOffset

    • Vertical Offset in studs for the spline
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  • SegmentInterval

    • The stud interval in which the spline is sampled, both on the preview mesh and generation
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      • I couldn’t find much of a difference beneath 10, so that’s the default value

  • TunnelHeight

    • TerrainPaths supports carving tunnels through terrain. This setting dictates the height of those tunnels that will be cut

    • TerrainPaths even supports crossing over other paths! As long as they’re not too close to each other(dictated by TunnelHeight)

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  • BridgeThickness

    • This dictates the thickness in studs for land bridges

    • This only affects segments between nodes that are toggled to true for bridges

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  • Tension

    • This is a Catmull-Rom spline related property, recommended value is 0.5, but feel free to play around with it

  • Path Loops

    • Dictates whether or not the path loops back to the start

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  • AutoMaterial

    • If true, the terrain generation will attempt to use whatever material is underneath the spline rather than the one you choose

Things I want to add but didn't get the time for this initial release:

  • Proper Undo/Redo support

  • Various bug fixes

  • Perhaps a way to control the falloff a bit better, but this can all be smoothed out pretty easily
    with the studio tools afterwards

Get it here! I'm excited to see what you create with it

Special thanks:

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#2

simply incredible! this is probably the greatest plugin I have ever seen regarding terrain building, I can tell a lot of work was put into it, i’ll make sure to use it, thank you and keep up the good work!

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#3

Wow!

Terrain designing will flourish with the help of this plugin. Can’t wait for more updates!

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#4

Absolute game changer! Thanks for making this public. Will be put to good use 200%

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#5

im not surprised tyridge released this, he’s made good terrain plugins before - really excited for this new release!

edit: terrain specifically is really difficult for paths on cliffs, this is major for all terrain developers

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#6

This plugin is super helpful for making paths! Now I do not have to worry about if the terrain is flat whenever I sculpt something.

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#7

This is something missing from Roblox terrain, and I can’t believe it took a community developer to get it out, after all this time

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#8

Can’t wait to use this as well as see what others within the community make using this!

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#9

The plugin is great, maybe you could somehow figure out fence placement?

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#10

If I recall correctly , someone already made a plugin for that using Bézier curves, but I can’t remember the name of it

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#11

This is a game changer. Thank you for making this! Very easy to use.

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#12

This is awesome. Can’t wait to use it!

#13

this. this is beautiful. really appreciate what you’ve done here. smooth terrain can look really good when its done right and you’ve made that a lot easier.

#14

eternally grateful, amazing plugin

#15

EditableMesh API changes broke this plugin recently(thanks to Irisynth for pointing this out to me!)

I just published a fix so make sure to update

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#16

Plugin just stopped working all of a sudden-
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The beta feature is enabled. Not sure why this is happening.

#17

Roblox changed how EditableMesh API worked again

I’ll push out a fix tomorrow, but it won’t really work until the latest studio update rolls out for you(not sure how long that takes)

#18

Why is this 1.1 but the plugin on the marketplace is 1.0?