Merging polygon2Ds for procedurally generated terrain

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I'm currently making a procedurally generated 2D landscape. I've already done all the generation, the problem is that I need to optimize it. At first I was just giving every tile its own Polygon2D node, but obviously I can't do that because it causes major performance issues. So I looked into a way to merge all my polygons into one, and I found this reddit post. This was very useful and got really close to what I wanted, but unfortunately I can't get it to work. No matter what I do, it always either doesn't work right or just crashes. Any help, workarounds or alternatives are appreciated.

Godot version 3.2.3
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May I ask you why you need a Polygon2D around every tile (or a merged version of it)? Maybe what you want to accomplish can be done in another, simpler way.

by (25 points)

I'm using the marching squares algorithm to smooth out my terrain. If I wasn't I would just use a tilemap. But now that I think about it, it wouldn't be that hard to modify my code to work with one. If I don't get a good answer, then I'll just do that.

by (112 points)
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