How to Create PROCEDURAL Generation in Godot 4

Procedural Generation is complex but for Godot 4 this tutorial makes it so much simpler. I walk you through step by step the best way to go about procedural generation in Godot. From the basics to step by step real example scenes. This tutorial uses the Gaea Addon to create procedural generation. Gaea is a Procedural Generation add-on for Godot 4.2+ and works amazingly. Procedural Generation is so important and really a major feature in so many big games. I know that developers would love to have procedural generation in their games but they just can't figure out how to do it. So I hope this Godot tutorial helps!
Huge shout out to all the creators of the Gaea addon find them and the addon download here:github.com/BenjaTK/Gaea
Link to Itch for Project’s and Art:devworm.itch.io/procedural-ge...
^ If you are downloading the projects be sure to open the AssetLib tab at the top of your project then click “plugins” and enable the Gaea Addon.
Official Godot Docs: docs.godotengine.org/en/stabl...
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:30 Gaea Basic’s
2:39 Top-Down Generation
16:01 Rogue-Like Generation
Thank you so much for watching, I really hope this video helped.
if you did enjoy or this video was helpful then all I ask is if you could please subscribe to help out the channel. It means so much and I love your feedback in the comments. I’ll look forward to getting back to you soon! Again thanks so much and I would love to see you again!
These Tutorials take a lot of time to create and I’m working on becoming a better Teacher and learning how to explain Godot things in a better way, if you’d like to support this journey to expand knowledge and help other game dev’s learn to create their own games then please.. Become a Member! It would mean the world and you’ll help me out so much! Thank you!
have a great rest of your day and of course be safe :)
- thanks DevWorm

[@neontetra7208]

i used your godot rpg and survival tutorial few months ago, now i can write scripts for anything i want :) im doing a pretty big project so im waiting for more videos

[@dev-worm]

so happy to hear!! that is wonderful! congrats

[@j.archives4319]

We need a dialogic video IMMEDIATELY YOURE AMAZING

[@dev-worm]

i think youre right!! thank you!! it means the world!

[@slackjawedpenguin3306]

I love your tutorial videos! They are onto the point and easily understood! Keep it up!

[@dev-worm]

Happy to hear that! thank you so much!

[@Zyppeh]

Great video explaining an amazing addon! Happy I found your channel today!

[@dev-worm]

happy it was informative!! wish you the best with Gaea!! Goodluck! thank you!

[@goldfisho15]

Wow your videos are great and your backlog looks incredible too! Keep it up, subbed!

[@dev-worm]

thank you so much!!

[@Frank_144]

Thanks for the tutorials m8, I'll make sure to watch the series

[@dev-worm]

thanks!! hope they help!! if you ever need anything then please let me know!

[@wizardpooypants8671]

This has been one of my favorite videos of yours and the one I’m currently using for a project, could you make a video on using time data, like detecting wether the user is on land or water?

[@Spaced0ut000]

We need a new video going over scene transitions 🥺 I followed the last one exactly, multiple times and I’m still having errors going back to the main scene and I’ve seen other in the comments having issues as well. Maybe one day you can go into more detail about how scene transitions work. Thanks for all your help.

[@dev-worm]

Ill really start looking into creating a more detailed one in the future! I'm sorry about the errors happening with the old one now

[@Spaced0ut000]

@@dev-worm it’s okay not your fault!! Truly thankful for all the videos either way, I have learned so much fr 🙏

[@AdamsAGD]

DevWorm !!! you were one of my first godot tutorialors !

[@dev-worm]

wow!! so happy to hear!! thank you so much!! I really hope I did a good job as a teacher!

[@currypancake208]

Wow, super easy to do and understand. Great work, thanks for tutorial

[@dev-worm]

of course anytime!! thank you so much! it means the world!

[@felipezymor9970]

Amazing, just what I needed. Could you please make a video showing how to access ground tiles, for example, to place enemies and props in the Gaea generated dungeon?

[@jackwinner4810]

Incredible job my friend thank you very much

[@dev-worm]

thank you so much!! glad it was able to help!!

[@NexusBaum]

the guy with the good stuff is back!

[@dev-worm]

aw thanks!! means the world!

[@justpietro2186]

Ur the best godot youtuber ever ❤

[@dev-worm]

aw thank you so much! it means the world!

[@alotron2332]

can you do tutorial about procedural generation but with trees and rocks that player can collect?

[@dev-worm]

you would have to spawn the trees and rocks randomly through an other node... and make sure they only spawn on tile type 1 or what ever your grass tile is, so they don't spawn in the ocean. It is kinda hard to explain.. but I might work on a tutorial soon for it! I am going to cover spawning in a future tutorial in the hack'n'slash series so that should help a little with the spawning logic

[@alotron2332]

@@dev-worm oh thank you very much

[@Nyamistaya]

Wow, very cool

[@do_it_like_rei]

Great video as always :D !!! Can you pleaseeee do a video on custom tile data if you haven't? I think it would go great with this video :3

[@dev-worm]

I'll look into it!! thank you so much!!

[@lavenda7403]

Oh, c'est géniale! ,merci pour cette vidéo. Donc, pardonne-moi pour ma question bizarre, mais puis-tu faire une vidéo où tu expliques comment il faut créer les platformers en 3D sur Godot 4?

[@BrunoFernandes_84]

very cool, is this appiable to isometric maps?

[@CluTrading]

Love it

[@dev-worm]

happy to hear! thanks!

[@HtetMyat79]

Thanks

[@dev-worm]

thank you, of course anytime

[@pavel7950]

Hey man! Great tutorial, can you make one for infinite chunk generation? I've managed to set it up for my game but it lags a lot with Gaea, character skips positions and stuff. Is there any way to fix it?

[@Freiheit-XXL]

thank you! do you know how to make procedural animation, too?

[@Jgames-rj4zr]

I'm using the heightmap generator and I can't find any guides for it, and it doesnt have the array thing that the others do so I can only use 1 tile.

[@anonymousaggregator5371]

Wowowiwowow

[@matthewponder6056]

thanks for the video! any chance you'd be willing to add a HeightmapGenerator2D tutorial as well?

[@dev-worm]

might use Gaea in the future for a series.. a terrierra like game series so I'd use it then. But dont wait on me!! I recommend checking out the Gaea docs and trying to learn it there! just reach out to me if you have a question and I can open up my Godot project with Gaea and help you out!

[@FourLionsClips]

you are a champ

[@dev-worm]

thanks brother!! means the world! if you ever need anything then please let me know!

[@FourLionsClips]

@@dev-worm no problem haha thanks for putting out vids and helping the community

[@Gambit-YT]

DEFINITELY saving this for later. Spent hours trying to code my own procedural generation and it still doesn't work lol

[@dev-worm]

procedural generation is pretty complex so I hope it helps!! thank you!!

[@wassimkamal8446]

how can we do a top down infinte generation , i enabled the the infinte in the NoiseGenerator but it doesnt seem to do anything should i do it in code ?

[@LetsGetDev.]

One question: how can I use the HeightmapGenerator3D? I know it is like HeightmapGenerator2D but I can't find how I can put the tiles/ Gridmap

[@CluTrading]

We need a tutorial on jump buffering

[@dev-worm]

thats a good idea! thanks! Ill look into it now!

[@StickmanDraws_]

How would you add enemies and objects that spawn throughout the level?

[@user-ko6kn7xp4r]

can you do 3d voxel procedural generation?

[@juntingdai7928]

I want to generate multi-layer with “isometric Shape”, so I set up 3 layers in the TileMap. However, when using the gasa plugin, it can only generate two layers. After testing, I found that when setting more than 2 “Sizes” in the Tiles, the third and subsequent tiles are not generated. Why is this happening? Is it because of the isometric Shape? I'm sorry, I'm a beginner.

[@LetsGetDev.]

Hello DevWorm! Could you do a tutorial on the Expresso Inventory System addon for Godot 4? There is a shortage of tutorials on this topic and I think your help would be greatly appreciated by the community.

[@dev-worm]

I havent seen this add on before but Ill look into it now!! thanks!

[@LetsGetDev.]

@@dev-worm One question: how can I use the HeightmapGenerator3D? I know it is like HeightmapGenerator2D but I can't find how I can put the tiles/ Gridmap

[@KristoTheOne]

Can we use Better terrain in this add-on instead of Godot crappy autotiling? Do you think this is possible? Could you point me?

[@Ehren1337]

Is there something you can do without tilemap and use 3D? Maybe a tutorial for it?

[@ChernoPhil]

How can you do it for a sidcroll game?

[@jasonwilliams8730]

👍

[@Gobknoblin]

This seems really handy for 2D games, but is it possible to do procedural generation for 3D games in Godot too?

[@dev-worm]

yes completely! this same add-on has 3D generator nodes.. so instead of using the 2D ones you can create generations in 3D with Gaea!!

[@matthewhalo1799]

The generate option is missing for me

[@SleetyDev]

hey i made a tutorial in gaea's discord to how to have entity spawning

[@dev-worm]

Ooo that seems cool! I might have to go check it out!! thanks bro! good work

[@eyoneplay8510]

Как сделать бесконечную генерацию? Я бы сильно хотел отдельный ролик или хотя бы ответ

[@richardbeach6478]

My generation button doesn't show up when I go to try and generate it?

[@dev-worm]

make sure toward the bottom of the inspector that the.. editor preview is enabled

[@oscarng3716]

@@dev-worm I'm also having the same issue, and yes the editor preview is enabled... EDIT: I found my mistake it was I didn't read the description, ^ If you are downloading the projects be sure to open the AssetLib tab at the top of your project then click “plugins” and enable the Gaea Addon.

[@SquidwardProfilePic]

@@oscarng3716I don’t even see an option to enable gaea, it’s as if I never downloaded it even tho I followed the tutorial

[@oscarng3716]

@@SquidwardProfilePic step 1: move the downloaded gaea mod into your project folder. Step 2: of the 4 options 2d, 3d, script, and assetlib(SELECT THIS). Step 3: select plugins found in the top right. Step 4: enable gaea

[@InvasionAnimation]

How do you install addons?

[@dev-worm]

download it from the github and just drag and drop it into youre projects file system

[@InvasionAnimation]

@@dev-worm Thank you.

[@PebroGon]

How to procedurally generate a scene mid game (Vampire survivors style)

[@dev-worm]

same way as in this video... you just call the $Generator.generate() function

[@PebroGon]

@@dev-worm thank you!

[@sandeepmishra5652]

can you please make a video about how to download this addon

[@dev-worm]

which part of the download are you having trouble with? maybe I can help!

[@sandeepmishra5652]

​@dev-worm well I kinda got lost with github like how to add this plugin. So if you could like make a tutorial how we can add this plug-in it would be quite helpful. Anyways man love your content .

[@SquidwardProfilePic]

i followed the tutorial but i dont have an option to generate anything on the right side of my screen, anyone know why?

[@dev-worm]

i dont know why that would be? maybe try reloading godot?

[@SquidwardProfilePic]

@@dev-worm i managed to fix that last problem, but now my new problem is the lack of the world when i go to run the game. whenever you finished the rogue like section you didnt run the game to see if it worked, and i have no idea how to make the world actually appear when i play it.

[@planktime]

HELLO!

[@dev-worm]

HELLO!!

[@DeltaFichier]

How can I add trees or rocks ?

[@dev-worm]

you’d have to spawn them into a certain tile!! so a script that says “hey i wanna spawn this node onto x, y types of tiles..

[@DeltaFichier]

Okay thanks

[@user-wt8fk3yl4d]

​@@dev-wormCan I have more details? I didn't understand

[@preston26016]

I dont have the option to "Generate" is there something im missing?

[@dev-worm]

try reloading Godot.. this happen to me when I was playing around with the Addon and just restarting Godot fixed it and I haven't came across this bug sense!! So I hope that is able to help you out!

[@preston26016]

@@dev-worm not sure why I didn't think about that but I will when I get home and I'll let ya know thanks

[@preston26016]

@@dev-worm that worked awesomely do you have any tutorials i may be able to follow for a little more info around the heightmap generator?

[@StepTheGlow]

time to make 5D terraria

[@dev-worm]

go for it lol!

[@comradechonky6328]

noo thats my codeeee

[@Ehren1337]

🙄🙄

[@comradechonky6328]

@@Ehren1337 bruh

[@Daniel_Hamburger]

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[@Nash11045]

Hi DevWorm can you make a tutorial on how to add ads to your game, and how to add in app purchases? Btw I'm new to game development and I really find your videos very helpful Thank You