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Methinks you want to round off those nasty floating points.

I'm honestly not sure.. I'd rather have accuracy over readability, if they user decides to edit them later they can certainly round them off manually.

I like how you show how the program works.

Short post for now, will try to expound later when not rushing off to work (again).

Thank you, I'm usually verbose when it comes to project progress, something I picked up from weekly progress reports on commercial contracts.
But now that I'm free of that burden I find myself unable to rid myself of the habit. I'm glad you like this because I don't think I can stop even if I wanted to.

I understand the feeling completely, although I've never gotten my hands on the books. I would like to, but English language books are not as easily obtainable in this country as I'd like.

In any case, your game is looking awesome, as others may have mentioned.

I agree, I live in Egypt (and no, I'm actually Egyptian) and it's difficult to obtain such books here, I have to order them online, and even then they take too long to arrive or I have to go hunting for them at the post office.

Sorry if I seem unresponsive by the way. It takes a lot of concentration to code anything and I've been doing a lot of that lately.

Looking forward to watching it grow!

Well, here is some growth!

I've started implementing a full editor for the game (I told you mods were going to freak out!), the editor will support editing the map as well as items, scripts, and all kinds of data files.. I'm adding a dynamic terrain generation graph at the moment. Think of it as something that will allow modders to "define" how the terrain is generated to begin with.



That's the in-game map after being processed from a bitmap into vector polygons, each coloured part is called a region and the game detects them automatically, all the modder has to do is name them in the editor and they're set. The editor can then export the preprocessed map again to data files and the modder can redistribute them as preprocessed maps to users.

This will allow attaching all kinds of metadata to the regions, like temperatures, humidity, etc. Roads, cities, towns, and villages will also be created through the editor.

I never thought this game would turn into me writing a fully fledged GIS application, but there you have it. I overdo stuff. 

New screenshot of terrain generation.. I think I have chasms covered.



I'm currently working on a full game editor using Qt, it'll do wonders for city design.

One important bit of news is I discovered that DF tilesets work with my game with little modification, that's one such tileset in the screenshot above. I plan to make it support them out of the box. (except the ones for modified raws, although if you modify ADWIF's data files as well it could work in theory)

Both perlin noise and interpolated heightmaps should have no edges. Though I must admit that I don't know how bicubic interpolation works.

What is causing the edges? Are you adding some amount of height depending on the biome, or multiplying by something?

My attempts at interpolating the terrain type, I'm trying different methods right now.

I'm always open for collaboration, if anyone feels like contributing I'll welcome them aboard.
What I'm in need of is a math genius though. I'm always lost when it comes to equations with anything other than alphabets in them.

So what kinds of biomes are you including?

I have these so far:

[
  {
    "name":"Plains",
    "sym":".",
    "style":{"fgcolour":"Yellow", "attributes":["Dim"]},
    "materials":["Dirt"],
    "foliage":["Grass"],
    "layerStart":0,
    "layerEnd:":2,
    "mapColour":"#827f00"
  },
  {
    "name":"Grasslands",
    "sym":"~",
    "style":{"fgcolour":"Green", "attributes":["Dim"]},
    "materials":["Dirt"],
    "foliage":["Grass"],
    "layerStart":0,
    "layerEnd:":2,
    "mapColour":"#00ff00"
  },
  {
    "name":"Desert",
    "sym":"~",
    "style":{"fgcolour":"Yellow", "attributes":["Bold"]},
    "materials":["Sand"],
    "layerStart":0,
    "layerEnd:":2,
    "mapColour":"#00ffff"
  },
  {
    "name":"Beach",
    "sym":"~",
    "style":{"fgcolour":"Yellow", "attributes":["Bold"]},
    "materials":["Sand"],
    "layerStart":0,
    "layerEnd":1
  },
  {
    "name":"Mountain",
    "sym":"^",
    "style":{"fgcolour":"White", "attributes":["Dim"]},
    "materials":["Rock", "Hills"],
    "layerStart":0,
    "layerEnd":50,
    "mapColour":"#ff0000"
  },
  {
    "name":"Sea",
    "sym":"~",
    "style":{"fgcolour":"Blue", "bgcolour":"Blue", "attributes":["Dim"]},
    "materials":["SaltWater"],
    "layerStart":0,
    "layerEnd":-10,
    "mapColour":"#0000ff",
    "background":true,
    "flat":true
  },
  {
    "name":"Arctic",
    "sym":".",
    "style":{"fgcolour":"Yellow", "attributes":["Dim"]},
    "materials":["Snow"],
    "layerStart":0,
    "layerEnd:":2,
    "mapColour":"#ffffff"
  }
]

But those are mainly for testing. When the time comes it'll have all kinds of biomes. You can define your own too.

Quote from: Tiruin on December 03, 2013, 03:26:59 am

Ok that's beautiful.

Because nothing define a DF player like a graphical orgasm after seeing one layer of slightly-darker ACSII symbols.

Indeed, always thought it was missing from DF, that's why I added it. To see what it'd look like.

It won't be purely ornamental though, you'll be able to shoot down hills once I add projectiles.