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Shagler
2D Tile Terrain Generator
May 17th, 2009, 10:00pm  
Greetings

I have always wanted to dynamically generate my 2D worlds, which I partially accomplished with random tile/building placement, but I was clueless on how to make the large terrain features (mountains / rivers). I decided to use my limited knowledge of Perlin Noise to generate a 2D height-map for a x*y sized map. Using this, I set the water table height along with sand, mountain, and snow heights. I then came up with the river generating algorithm (which was the bulk of the program) to attempt realistic looking/flowing rivers. If the river reaches flat ground, it pools up into a lake. Let me know what you think!

You can find it on my portfolio page: http://mavdisk.mnsu.edu/kallhw/games.html


or directly here:http://mavdisk.mnsu.edu/kallhw/world/world.html
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Cedric
Re: 2D Tile Terrain Generator
Reply #1 - May 17th, 2009, 10:58pm  
I like it, maybe you can try to use some sort of textures, to give it a more realistic look instead of this pixellook.
Only thing i would work on are the rivers. Guess this still could be improved.
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seltar
Re: 2D Tile Terrain Generator
Reply #2 - May 18th, 2009, 2:41pm  
Ben;
Wow, just wow.
You're a bit quick pulling the trigger.

I can't see any similarities in those examples.
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Cedric
Re: 2D Tile Terrain Generator
Reply #3 - May 18th, 2009, 2:44pm  
hmm, me either... i thought you come up with something more obvious but i guess its fine. friends again...
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ben_hem
Re: 2D Tile Terrain Generator
Reply #4 - May 18th, 2009, 2:48pm  
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Sorry, I am being a bit jumpy due to interface similarities I think.  Good start on a game that has some interesting parallels with my own work.
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Shagler
Re: 2D Tile Terrain Generator
Reply #5 - May 18th, 2009, 2:59pm  
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Re: 2D Tile Terrain Generator
Reply #6 - Jul 6th, 2009, 1:18am  
Hello,

U'r code is really great.

I really like to see u'r source code but tje link on u'r webpage doesn't work. Is there a way to get it ?

THank's a lot and good work !

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Shagler
Re: 2D Tile Terrain Generator
Reply #7 - Jul 7th, 2009, 10:31am  
I just realized that the university that hosts my site doesn't like the pde files. I changed this source code to a .txt file for viewing. Thanks for the interest!
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