Uggh... I could have a lot of fun with a map generator like that, text mode and all!
I've forgotten what I read earlier, and I don't want to read it again. Is this going to be a library? And if so, how long before it'll be available? | |
Foomer wrote:
Uggh... I could have a lot of fun with a map generator like that, text mode and all! Yep, it'll be a library, no doot aboot it, eh? Seriously, though, I'm planning on revamping the code, making it overrideable and cleaner and adding tons more nifty features. Since I already have the functionality of the code pretty much down-pat -- revamping is just typing out the algorithm, not planning anything -- it should be ready some time within the next few weeks (remember to allow time for my laziness, of course). I still haven't come up with the decision on whether to make it a BYONDscape subscriber library or just a plain old s_ library. On one hand, it gets dimes flowing, but on the other hand more people will use it. ...Hmm... I have a nifty idea now... I might combine the best of both worlds... | |
Hgame9 wrote:
LOL WHAT AN ADVERTISMENT, IF YOUR A SUBSCRIBER WHY DONT YOU RIP IT FOR US! Hey, I'm hungry and need a snack. If you've got a grocery store on your block, why don't you steal a box of crackers and mail it to me? | |
Leftley wrote:
Hgame9 wrote: Yet, another unfortunate side affect of hunger. Eat Snickers. Don't let hunger happen to you. | |
Hgame9 wrote:
LOL WHAT AN ADVERTISMENT, IF YOUR A SUBSCRIBER WHY DONT YOU RIP IT FOR US! Because if it's opened up in Dream Maker by a non-subscriber, it will send an email to the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Noam Chomsky. It will also automatically download audio files of the most popular "boy bands" to replace any midi, wav, or mp3 files on your hard disk. And that's only the first time you open it up. | |
Gughunter wrote:
Hgame9 wrote: Wait... what if you're a girl (or guy, I guess) that likes boy bands? | |
Yep... people don't understand that you can do really powerful things with a couple font manipulations in text mode!
They're squares that define which areas will have noise randomly added to them. I'm planning on providing two different versions of the blobs, though -- the first duplicates the current functionality, which is to section off a number of turfs as a blob and then add noise to them. The other one is to have a blob that is full 100% in the middle and 0% at its fringes, and then to drop those down everywhere and sum up the results.
The customisability lets you configure the size, width, density, and amount of blobs to put down, for each different layer type (currently there are only altitude and moisture layers, but I'll soon be expanding it to include an interface for expressing custom layers -- if you want to get really bogged down you can express layers for temperature, cloud cover, etc...). Right now the averaging steps are general -- you can't average the altitude more than the moisture or vice-versa -- but soon I'll break them into component parts as well.
Terrain generation is fun fun fun! ;-)