Making the main scene and setup

Preview

If you’re a beginner…

Read through and implement 3D Game or 3D Intro until you know the basics of how 3D works in Godot.

You will be making a 3D racing game with a track, timer, lap counter, menu, and (of course) a race car!

Setting up the main scene

1. Select 3D Scene and rename to “Game”.

2. Add a child MeshInstance3D and rename to “Ground”. In the Inpector:

3. Select New BoxMesh under Mesh.

4. Click the BoxMesh and change the Size to (x: 50, y: 1, z: 50).

5. Still in the BoxMesh, under Material, select New StandardMaterial3D.

6. Find a road picture (preferably .png) so you can see where the car is going.

   • Download it into your racing game folder (I found mine here, on OpenGameArt).
   • In the Grounds’ Inspector > Mesh > Material > Albedo > Texture, click ‘Load’ and select your texture.
   • You will also need to change this Size to (x: 50, y: 1, z: 50).
   • To make the texture repeat itself: UV1 > Triplanar to ‘On’.
   • To make the texture not repeat as much, you can toggle with the UV1 > Scale properties.

7. When on the Ground node, the menu bar will have a Mesh button.

   Create a collision shape and change Collision shape placement to Static Body Child.

8. Save your scene.

Current Look

Your ground should now have repeated your picture and look something like this:

Checklist

• I have imported and used a ground texture.
• I have a Game node and a Ground node.
• I’m ready to make the car!