Generate province looking shape on 2d array (grid)

[woven storm]

Okay so bascially I have a 2d array (practically a grid), and I want to generate province looking shapes on this grid. I have one starting tile, pretend the red is the starting area, and the blue is some random height I want to generate on top of it to generate a province looking shape.

[dry pawn]

cool

[ruby moss]

uh whats a province 💀

[jolly hawk]

wtf i do gfx

[woven storm]

americans

[dry pawn]

I wanna do the same on my auto generating map but don’t know how so I’ll watch this thread

[dry pawn]

American momento

[woven storm]

a principal administrative division of certain countries or empires:

[ruby moss]

??

like ik about canada

[dry pawn]

that’s the simple way of saying it

[woven storm]

they look something like that

[dry pawn]

Canada has provinces

[woven storm]

now i need to generate a shape similiar to this randomly

[ruby moss]

a puzzle piece

[woven storm]

kinda

u can tink of it that way

except its not square

[ruby moss]

hmmm

you could have like a million custom pieces

and randomize

it

through an array

[woven storm]

okay so here is the issue with that

[dry pawn]

I wanna do that to

[woven storm]

how would these provinces connect

[dry pawn]

that won’t work

it’ll be completely random

meaning it won’t be in blobs

[ruby moss]

they have to connect?

[dry pawn]

bruh

[woven storm]

yes

[ruby moss]

i think thats better

because

[woven storm]

i use to think ron used real world data till i realized he just uses blender

but that wont work in this case

since only ai fighting

and its tile base simulation

[ruby moss]

an alternative is to make a big flat square and draw lines though it

[woven storm]

:/

[ruby moss]

squiggly lines

[woven storm]

i dont think u understand

lemme get roblox studio open and show u

k almost got it

[dry pawn]

that’s

impossible

[ruby moss]

no

what if

you have an ai

and make it run around

[woven storm]

the blue is the country i made

[dry pawn]

do you know how scripting works 💀💀

[woven storm]

the red is sorta what i wnt to generate

[ruby moss]

yes

you can do that

..

[woven storm]

to make a region

[ruby moss]

what about the blue

[dry pawn]

it’s the country

[woven storm]

the blue is the country

[ruby moss]

..

what

im confused i dont have good vocabulary :p

and i dont live in canada

[woven storm]

ur not english natively?

[dry pawn]

Canada isn’t the only one with this

[ruby moss]

i am

[ruby moss]

its the only one ik

[dry pawn]

think of it like states

[woven storm]

u should look at maps more

[dry pawn]

but less straight lines

[ruby moss]

😔

okay

i dont see the point but wtvr

[woven storm]

...

anyways

does anybody have an idea of how to do this

[ruby moss]

what if

[woven storm]

i pretty much just need to round random height around the already owned lands

[ruby moss]

lets say you made a gui first

[dry pawn]

I think I do

[woven storm]

mhm

[woven storm]

what is it

@ruby moss with your logic i might as well make an entire political system ai that determines the borders of a province based of resources, history, and geography

[ruby moss]

so if you went to pick a random offset pixel and then using a script picked another one thats within one pixel of it then you will make either an undefined, pos, or negative slope right

and you can repeat that proccess

but

set a maximum to where it can go vertically

so its not a line

and then somehow capture that?

[woven storm]

the only issue i see with that is math.random being so shit and making a straight line somehow

[ruby moss]

lol idk

[dry pawn]

Have it select a random point on the map, and have it change into whatever color, use the function that detects everything around it and use math.random to create a semi squiggly circle. Repeat the process till all squares are covered. When a square is covered, create a value for that part where if the value is true, that part cannot change colour another time.

[woven storm]

yeah i could do tat

oh wait i got an idea

[ruby moss]

thats why i said that lol

and a minimum too

so its not just one pixel

[dry pawn]

send me the script if you do, since I also need it for my project.

[ruby moss]

if u get unlucky

[woven storm]

heresmy idea

[woven storm]

yeh add me so i remember

[ruby moss]

it worked?

[woven storm]

heres my idea tho

i select a region

this is sorta lot potat idea but a different

so i have a width and height

ill go to each edge

and inset it a bit

[ruby moss]

oo i see

[woven storm]

the blue is a number between 1 and something

but heres the issue i see with this

it might make a weird shape

and less province like

[ruby moss]

u can fill it in

[woven storm]

yeah i could

[ruby moss]

check if there is one part alone

not next to something else

[woven storm]

yeah check if its an island

well yeah but their called islands wen working with arrays

[dry pawn]

** You are now Level 3! **

[woven storm]

but the issue here now

or another ting to solve

is connecting provinces when there next reated

created

[ruby moss]

o

[woven storm]

say we re making another province

were gonna generate and add offset

but we need to know where to place it so it connets

so idk

[ruby moss]

um

you could make one big province

and seperate it

[woven storm]

?

[ruby moss]

hmm idk

did u try googling it

the dev forum might have something

[dry pawn]

how

think of the whole plate as already a big province

what we are trying to do is separating

[ruby moss]

no i mean

nvmnvm

its the same as the gui idea

[dry pawn]

ok

[woven storm]

what