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Your Godot version: 4.4.beta1
Issue description: i am prototyping procedural 3D visuals, so i need to use custom drawing in 3D to create procedural 3D visuals but there is no "custom drawing in 3D" documentation page.
if there is documentation about cusom drawing in 3D, i can't find it because i can't think of another name that such documentation could have except "custom drawing in 3D"
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the documentation page does not exist. here are the search results which should find the page "custom drawing in 3D" but they did not
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sosasees commentedon Feb 22, 2025
i want the page "custom drawing in 3D" to be the 3D equivalent of "custom drawing in 2D":
a starting guide to script‑generated visuals in 3D, similar to what "custom drawing in 2D" teaches for 2D
Calinou commentedon Feb 22, 2025
There is no 1:1 equivalent of the custom 2D drawing API in 3D. You need to use procedural mesh generation instead: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/tutorials/3d/procedural_geometry/index.html
tetrapod00 commentedon Feb 22, 2025
There is no precise equivalent of _draw() in 3D nodes (on Node3D or GeometryInstance3D or VisualInstance3D). So the exact purpose of
Custom Drawing in 2D
, which is documenting the_draw()
function, doesn't make sense in 3D.Existing pages that cover similar topics to "custom drawing in 3D" would be:
Since the underlying features are different, a
Custom drawing in 3D
page could make sense as a landing/redirect page for the existing pages. But it wouldn't directly document a specific feature. We try not to include tutorial pages that don't document specific features, so I don't think we should duplicate the documentation for a specific existing feature like ArrayMesh in a new page eithersosasees commentedon Feb 23, 2025
we could add this especially‑written message box above the normal search results for "custom drawing in 3D" on the search results page:
tetrapod00 commentedon Feb 23, 2025
We really don't have that much control over the search to do that
sosasees commentedon Feb 23, 2025
how could we get the ability to add especially‑written messages above automatic search results?
[-]add page "custom drawing in 3D"[/-][+]Add page "custom drawing in 3D"[/+]