Worldographer 2025 World Map Generation Improvements
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- Опубліковано 8 жов 2024
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Our BackerKit supporters voted for improvements to Worldographer's world generation algorithm. Here are 3 specific changes: longer lines of mountains, deserts near 30-degrees N&S latitudes, and forests are less likely to be "downwind" of mountains.
Joe! What an incredible update! Thank you so much. I was the one who originally suggested this on both YT and Discord, and sent more suggestions on discord. All I can say is you've really nailed it! I wasn't sure how much of a coding challenge it would be, but you did it, and well, and quickly! This is a HUGE improvement to terrain generation!
Yeah, at first I thought the changes were going to be much more intensive or much longer (20 changes instead of 3). But once you listed just 3 (and 1 was something we were trying to do but just had a bug) I felt much better. I'd even be curious to know what are the next 3 things to get it 10% better (for example). Although one thing I'd like to do is play a bit more with the wind patterns.
@@inkwellideas6624 I'd say another easy change would be adding %northern forest at 60N and 60S (same code you already used for %jungle and %desert, I think). These are the coniferous forests of the Pacific Northwest in America and Siberia in Eurasia.
Did you see my post about trimming the edges of flat maps to approximate various map projections? I'm not sure how hard that would be to implement.
I also sent a PDF with my original suggestion on discord. I'm not sure if you've read it but that source has incredible detail on realistic biome and world generation
Great work!
Maybe a toggle-able layer for wind directions to be able to show across rows or on individual tiles could be something to consider, akin to a underdark layer
Well, you can make a new custom layer and draw those on to remind yourself. Are you looking for the program to do that for you? Would you want the program to let you change them and then update how it generates the vegetation based on that?
@inkwellideas6624 i didn't even think about doing one myself. I really need to spend more time learning what I can do with the program, like layering
@inkwellideas6624 I was just tossing and idea out.