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You can get the latest source from the project page if you want; I don't have a compiled version up anywhere at the moment.
Pretty much everything will change at some point - I'm really just getting the building blocks in place now. But it is actually worth starting a game just to see HMs Gates
EDIT: Current work is on getting rivers and roads in place, btw.Last edited by Nick; June 2, 2013, 15:05.One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
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Cool! I'm glad some of my drawings might make it in. I had a rare streak of free time and it was good to have something to work on.You are on something strangeComment
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Also, I was wondering for a moment there what a rare steak had to do with free time...One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
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In case anyone's interested, here's what might be regarded as a working map. I generated it as a (much-needed, as any detailed inspection will show) sanity check for river generation. Each pixel is a chunk (so 1/100 of a square mile) from the scale map upthread.
The rivers have so far taken forever, mainly thinking how to get the data files in the right form for actual use, but also data entry and processing. Once I have them done it's on to roads, which should be a breeze after rivers. Then I can start on wilderness generation, and there's the small detail of gameplay.
Lord knows when this will all happen - it seems I have taken on some other stuff too...One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
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Map looks nice, btw what was the source information for such a map, and what was generated randomly?Comment
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The rivers I started by expanding the map and recording square mile grids for each river - this took a while. Then I picked a random chunk within that square mile (weighted toward the centre), and joined all those up in a way that tended to straight but allowed a bit of wandering. I'm fairly hapy with how they look.
Now I need to work out which typos led to the massive canal-like features - I don't think even the dwarves went in for that scale of civil engineering.One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
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I am interesting, because I am trying to make good random map generator myself. I mostly made a working small scale generator, which generates a details for a large scale map. However making nicely looking large scale map without an external source is a problem.Comment
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This interests me.
Ever considered doing a Kickstarter or something of the kind? The scale of this game, at least my interpretation of it from perusing the thread, would seem to suggest a need for serious devotion on the part of the developer. I check Dwarf Fortress every so often, and the kind of constant coding they are doing is what I imagined while I was reading this thread - particularly during that bit about Minecraft/DF/FAband/MMO.
I like your map, by the way. It very closely resembles the map in the Silmarillion, which presumably was the intention. Nan Dungortheb and Taur-ni-fuin ought to be fun...C(6.3) C Erirbag [Half-Ogre Cultist] L:39 DL:Collector's Cave 2 A+ R+ Sp w:The Long Sword of Karakal (2d5) (+9, +12) (+2)
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Sorry to shoot your kind suggestion down so comprehensively
I like your map, by the way. It very closely resembles the map in the Silmarillion, which presumably was the intention. Nan Dungortheb and Taur-ni-fuin ought to be fun...One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
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Rivers fixed and map updated, btw.One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
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Just a few examples, how my small scale map generator works, something similar may be used here. https://bitbucket.org/LostTemplar/dr...loads/map1.png, https://bitbucket.org/LostTemplar/dr...loads/map2.png, https://bitbucket.org/LostTemplar/dr...loads/map3.png. It can take any large scale map as an input.Comment
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Is this project still active at all? I was following the status updates for it a while back, and after recently re-reading The Silmarillion it got me thinking about it again. The idea and scale of this game is really exciting to think about, but probably a nightmare to code I imagine.Comment
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Is this project still active at all? I was following the status updates for it a while back, and after recently re-reading The Silmarillion it got me thinking about it again. The idea and scale of this game is really exciting to think about, but probably a nightmare to code I imagine.
The thing is, though, I'm currently in the middle of a major rewrite of Angband, with the intention of cleaning up and generalising the code so that (among other things) it's much easier to make variants. So at some point I plan to redo Beleriand and FA on top of the new Angband codebase.
I mean, how hard can it be?One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
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