How to make a Collision Shape from a mesh instance?

[bajingus]

Godot Version

4.3

Question

Hello, I have an imported .glb of a heightmap and am wondering how I can use the MeshInstance3D inside the scene for collision detection.
This is what the scene (inherited from the .glb) looks like atm:

I was thinking of something like adding an Area3D + HeightmapShape3D into the scene but don’t really know where to go from there.

Thanks

[bajingus]

Ah nvm, found this solution after a little more searching haha

How to set a mesh as a collision shape

Attention Topic was automatically imported from the old Question2Answer platform. Asked By orosmatthew I have the individual vertices to create a mesh and can create one using the surface tool, however, what I need is to be able to set that mesh as the collision shape. I tried using the CollisionShape node however is says in the docs that it is only used as an editor helper so I should not use it for this purpose. Without it, how can I ac…

[gertkeno]

Might be better to use heightmap tools, like one of these addons

• Heightmap terrain - Godot Asset Library
• Terrain3D - Godot Asset Library