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  1. Aug 31st, 2001, 10:10 AM #1
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    Random World Generation

    Hi

    Anyone here can kick/push me abit in the right direction on 'how to make a random world generator?'. I truly have no clue how to make one and searching a few forums hasn't helpt me either.
    With 'world' I mean an earth like world.
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  2. Aug 31st, 2001, 10:46 AM #2
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    Well I would imagine you make a sphere, and then put different colours on it, anr/or deform it a little to create valleys/mountains.
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    `World generators are fun, it's one of the first things i've programmed actually, in gwbasic what kind of world are you making first of all? Spherical, cylindrical, toroid or flat? If you want water and mountains formed naturally even if you don't have depth in your world, you could let the algoritm evolve the ground by increasing land height by using continental pieces splitting and colliding with each other, vulcanos and decrease by erosion and ice ages. There are of course simpler techniques just randomly build continents by increasing height naturally around an area and then erode a bit to smoothen them
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    I remember that nice avatar! Its Usako!!!

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  6. Aug 31st, 2001, 03:10 PM #5
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    Hi Fox ^-^

    It's a cylindrical map It's some sort of isometric thingy I'm making. Currently it just janks down some random tiles but it's quite fast . I'll try something like that height increasing thingy ^_~
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  7. Aug 31st, 2001, 03:18 PM #6
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    and I made about 100 new avatars but my stupid upload program is not really, exactly working >_<
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  8. Sep 1st, 2001, 03:15 PM #7
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    Heh Does anyone has some example code or something for me? ^_^ Anything I try gets not so nice and stuff
    *sighs* It would be cool if I had an matrix type 'o plug thingy so I could learn everything in a snap ^_~.

    Oh well, just added a nice automated fringe thingy so I'm happy
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