Which instrument is used to create level mockups?

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Hi
Im learning and want to ask which instruments are used to create such level mockups (prototypes) that can be exported as mesh as in this example:

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Hi @xpugs and welcome to the community.

You can use any 3D modelling program you like, and export as GLB. Blender is free, cross-platform and open source.

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Thanks for response.

But it seems like it has common types of textures, boxes, slopes. I though maybe there is an tool for quick prototyping such things.

You think this entire level was developed by hand each surface for example in Blender?

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Yes, that would be my guess but you could check with the author of that playground, which seems to be @Cedric

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I believe this one came from Havok? @eoin Can you confirm?

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3D modeling tools like Blender, C4D etc are specifically designed for this purpose.

It is usually possible to know from the “Generator” field of a GLB file, in this case it is “Khronos glTF Blender I/O v4.3.47”, shortly “Blender”. One may download it for free from https://www.blender.org/

What it is interesting in this case is the lightmap generation and implementation (which could be seen from the PG code).

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Yes, that geometry is included in the Havok C++ samples; we just converted it to a GLB for loading in Babylon. Cedric added the textures to make it look nice, but the geometry itself was made in 3DS Max - no special prototyping tool, just a person thinking through the test scenarios for character movement, so lots of different sized doorways, slopes, steps and bits of geometry which will squeeze the character.

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