unborn grove
Hi! Currently letting my mod run for a while to generate an area. The mod kinda works like wave function collapse but not quite as I missed a few of the key steps that algorithm uses (which if I had included would probably make it work much better).
https://www.youtube.com/live/KsMVZwcMWEY?si=4NiMZkCpb178oUca
Going to let it run for a few hours and see what happens!
faint veldt
still looks better than my cities 💀
blissful condor
and i thought my chunks loaded slow
unborn grove
Yeah... 😆
viral sundial
Interesting, how does this work? I always have trouble understanding wave function collapse.
unborn grove
Interesting, how does this work? I always have trouble understanding wave functi...
This one misses a few key steps of wave function collapse so not really sure I can call it that. But basically I pre made each 8x8x8 tile and for each one I define what type of connection it has on each side (eg, west facing wall, ground surface etc). Then in my code I pick a random place in the area to place a random tile that is compatible with all the tiles around it based on the connections matching (if no tile has been placed on a side I allow any connection). If there are no tiles that satisfy all 6 connections I just nuke the tiles in that are and rebuild it.
So it's not as advanced as the proper algorithm
viral sundial
This one misses a few key steps of wave function collapse so not really sure I c...
Okay, that's almost exactly the way I was thinking about doing infinite-city world generation as well. My approach would just place the tiles once, during world generation, and not delete/rebuild them. If there is an invalid chunk, I'd have some sort of piece to fill those in.
What advantages do you see in having invalid areas rebuild themselves?
unborn grove
Yeah if you made enough prices that any combination of tiles could be connected then it would be fine. However, I think that would end up with you making hundreds of tiles to work with every single possible combination, so for me it was just easier to recreate the area if I hit an invalid state
viral sundial
Yeah if you made enough prices that any combination of tiles could be connected ...
I was thinking that I could have a tile specifically for "illegal combinations", that would deliberately look a little out of place - probably a solid tower, with no entrances.
unborn grove
Yeah that could do the trick
viral sundial
Anyways, the look I would be going for is "crumbling ruin", so perfect precision isn't necessarily needed.
unborn grove
Nice, look forward to seeing what you make!
viral sundial
Nice, look forward to seeing what you make!
I'm honestly not sure when I'll get around to it. I've got... about four large-scale projects in the queue at the moment.
Once I'm happy with the state of the Verdant Growth, I'll choose the next project to work on. I'm leaning towards City of Ash, since I'd like to work on a dimension mod again.
So, less of a queue and more of a priority queue.
And I've still got to spin out some of my infrastructure into libraries.
unborn grove
Nice, yeah I know the feeling of having too much you want to do haha
viral sundial
It appears to be a common affliction here, unsurprisingly.
Oh, and I'm playing Hollow Knight, so I've got to get good enough at platforming to beat the Path of Pain. That day is still a long way off.
viral sundial
Yeah that could do the trick
Oh - my inspiration for that strategy was the game Carcassonne. I've got to give credit where it's due; I didn't think up that approach entirely by myself.
zenith spindle