Ok, yes, I get the crash too. Oddly though, not in debug mode.

Hi all!

I have updated the download links to a new version using the new algorithms for Island and Cavern maps.
I have also done a fair bit of optimisation so it should be a bit faster as well.

http://www.wormscc.co.uk/download/mapgen/InstallMapGen.exe

Let me know what you think. Its not quite finished, but a round of feedback would be useful at this point

Thanks!

Update: Both Multi-island and Multi-cavern no longer have a forced gap between them, allowing them to move over the "half-way point".

Thanks! I will finish off what I have and let you lot play with the settings to see if it can function to Aerial, if not I can add some extra params to hopefully help.

I really like the hexagonal generation, It'll be available for island maps too?

Also, the number of colours selected in the program doesn't seem to affect the maps generated in the map editor.

It wasn't originally planned, the hex grid is purely part of the underlying algorithm and rendering it was just a debug tool, that said, there is no harm in allowing it, just have to find
a place to put it in the interface.

yes! that's exactly what I'm looking for!

Ok cool, I will add an option for that type of scaling.

Quote from: Plutonic on February 04, 2019, 03:34 PM

Well, that's just a bigger map, you can set any map size you want up to about 8000x8000.

Does MapGEN generate from a random seed internally? I think it would be good to expose it and be able to modify it, that way we can compare how the same map looks with the same aspect ratio but different size, using the same seed for generation.

Yes, it does have an internal seed, and while it isn't possible to manually enter one, re-generating with a known seed is possible using the "Modify" button. For example, these two RR maps were made by saving a map, pressing 'modify' and then doubling both the map size and the path width before regenerating. If you "load" a previously saved map you also load in its seed and can re-generate it with a different texture, different object layouts etc.

The issue here is that many of the algorithms aren't currently "stable", in that by tweaking the values, more work needs to be done, more random numbers need to be rolled and the maps diverge. The cavern maps here also share a seed, but because the complexity hasn't also been scaled to match they look very different.

I do however have fixing that on my to-do list, ideally the same seed would try to keep maps similar even with settings tweaks. Once I have algorithms we are happy with, I will get on to playing with that.

Ok, I think I can see what people mean, will have a stab at a new version.

oooh, I do like these pillar islands. maybe add a scale slider to make the same results but at a higher dpi and no artifacts?

What do you mean by this? not sure what you mean by dpi in this case, and can you point out the artifacts?

So, the current version can already do this: (see attachments)
What would you do differently?