What are your thoughts on these plugins to make triangle terrain?

Please give me your thoughts on these triangle terrain creation plugins:

  1. FusiaOS’s Map Editor - The Manual Triangle Plugin (FusiaOS’s Map Editor - The Manual Triangle Plugin - Roblox

  2. Atrazine’s Terrain Plugin V2 (Atrazine’s Terrain Plugin V2 - Roblox)

  3. Low Poly Terrain Creator (Low Poly Terrain Creator - Roblox)

  4. Terrain Mesher (Terrain Mesher - Roblox)

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I only like Low Poly Terrain Creator and possibly Terrain Mesher (haven’t tried it out yet) because manually creating triangle terrain especially in 512x512 size scenarios is a pain.

Edit: Actually I don’t like any of these plugins. (Besides Terrain Mesher)

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Low Poly Terrain Creator is a performance nightmare especially when generating. 500x500 terrain shouldn’t be over a bajillion tris. Also any form of editing the terrain creates noticeable lines on all Graphic Levels.

Also just generating it and looking at it gave me over 11,000 MB of memory usage.

I haven’t used triangle terrain in a while, but I just remember the main issue was just trying to make it look clean. Like in BullfrogBait’s post you can see cracks in the terrain. I just remember no matter how hard I tried it was very annoying to try to get the cracks to not show with any of these plugins.

If you want to make triangle terrain or just the typical low poly terrain look, then just use blender. You can make it faster and get better performance, but also just use vertex paint to help design the color. It’s very easy to do. Vertex Painting is where you paint the mesh, so if you import it into ROBLOX you can change the material and color still. I actually use it to make fake AO or for wood I’ll make it look like a texture.

Here’s gifs showing you it:
https://gyazo.com/287e8ad2a9c1681bd133f0eceebe5ca1 (This is how to do it. Splitting a mesh will give you more area to specifically paint.)
https://gyazo.com/284aa26a3e9b2f4bef3fb03daa20f982
https://gyazo.com/de077484241951f6c0bd825820b0e09c (Also used it to make lava. All I did was just paint some of the mesh black at certain parts)
https://gyazo.com/3ddd423e032ce2b240ce5e66defc1ec9 (Painted some of the mesh here darker around the edges to make it look like ice, so it stands out more at night)

Doing this doesn’t require any texture baking, no rendering, or any of that. It’s very easy, fast, and can be done on any laptop/desktop.

Here’s a video of me doing it: lava - YouTube
(If you try it out use a plane instead of a cube if it’s terrain or something like lava)