Randomized/Procedural maps, or map tools

by Meigus on 10/17/2010 23:32, 3 messages, last message: 10/31/2010 05:21, 1491 views, last view: 05/04/2024 00:22

Has there been any work on a procedural/randomized map maker? I'm thinking something akin to the way Scorched3d does its stuff.

Also, are there any tools, like set a value and click to create a triangulated hill, or like, a thumbnail menu where you can put arrangements of blocks (like a house or a doorway), then select and place it anywhere as part of the grid. (like a model)?

P.S. I have the source for Sauer and Scorched, but the source code is so undocumented and confusing (also I'm not a programmer.)

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by Matt Bierner on 10/19/2010 06:21

For procedural maps, this (old) project may be of interest:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tmapgen/

There is no built in support for the SketchUp style components you describe.

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by SheeEttin on 10/19/2010 07:19

Re "prefabs":
You can already fake this behavior by copy-pasting across maps.
If you want to implement it for real, it shouldn't be that hard. Look to copy-pasting: all you need to do is serialize the copy buffer into a format that can be put in a CFG (and, of course, unserialize it for pasting).

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by SirAlex on 10/31/2010 05:21

Just finished this today: http://cubicmatter.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=54&p=442#p442

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