Improving island shaping for map generation ana05 tháng 3 02, 2019 Add Comment Edit One of my goals for 2019 is to improve my existing pages. This week I improved the island map section of my noise-based map generation page... Read More
Mapgen4: finished ana05 tháng 11 28, 2018 Add Comment Edit “ Not with a bang but a whimper ” Back in July, I started mapgen4, the successor to mapgen2, my Voronoi-polygon map generator from 2010. Bac... Read More
Map generation on a sphere, part 2 ana05 tháng 11 01, 2018 Add Comment Edit I spent 9 days working on map generation on a sphere. The first 2 days were geometry: points, triangles, polygons on a sphere. The next 7 d... Read More
Map generation on a sphere, part 1 ana05 tháng 10 21, 2018 Add Comment Edit I ran into a showstopper with mapgen4. It unpredictably "freezes" in the sense that inputs have no effect, even though both the ma... Read More
Mapgen4: river representation ana05 tháng 10 08, 2018 Add Comment Edit I've reached the point in mapgen4 development when I just want it to be over. So I'm cutting all remaining features and am focusing ... Read More
Mapgen4: outlines ana05 tháng 10 01, 2018 Add Comment Edit Usually when I make a map generator I focus on the underlying algorithms and data. The data will be used by a game project, so the visuals a... Read More
Mapgen4: bug fixes ana05 tháng 9 26, 2018 Add Comment Edit The past week has been troubleshooting. The biggest problem was water pouring out of my house's electrical panel, but that's not wh... Read More
Mapgen4: oblique projection ana05 tháng 9 19, 2018 Add Comment Edit One of my goals for mapgen4 was to explore non-realistic approaches, both to map generation and to map rendering. I wanted to explain the u... Read More
Mapgen4: rainfall ana05 tháng 9 15, 2018 Add Comment Edit Last time I rewrote elevation painting . The next thing I wanted to work on was biomes . I'm not actually even sure I need them, but I w... Read More
Mapgen4: elevation painting, revisited ana05 tháng 9 11, 2018 Add Comment Edit A few weeks ago I described elevation painting for mapgen4. The idea was to let the user paint areas for mountains, valleys, and oceans, an... Read More
Mapgen4: river appearance ana05 tháng 9 07, 2018 Add Comment Edit Earlier this week I moved all the heavy computation into its own thread . The rest of the week I wanted to work on rivers. The last time I w... Read More
Mapgen4: elevation painting ana05 tháng 9 03, 2018 Add Comment Edit Last week I described the plan for elevation in mapgen4 . The goal was to allow painting mountains, valleys, and oceans on the map. I used ... Read More
Mapgen4: elevation ana05 tháng 8 26, 2018 Add Comment Edit Last week I posted about mapgen4 , the procedural map generation project I'm working on this summer. I had been trying to limit the scop... Read More