I would also like to see your Terrain Engine in TUST.
For the connected chunks you can take a look at Kubus. It has a complete voxel chunk system like minecraft and supports huge voxel fields...
Also i got some good ideas of implementing multitexturing into it.

PS: You can enable welding and normal calculations in DynamicModels
Docs on how


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