PlayMyCode: Tiled Procedural Caves/Maps

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Mon, 07 May 2012, 03:09
Krakatomato	A few months ago I was playing around with procedural cave generation and came across an idea by Noel Berry that used the concept of "miners" to create the map. I knocked up a prototype using PlayMyCode which produced the following: [pmc]krakatomato/procedural-caves[/pmc] Obviously, the above is pretty ugly and needs to be tiled to look more like a map. The usual approach is to use a shedload of nested if/else statements, but last night I came across this incredible idea: www.saltgames.com/2010/a-bitwise-method-for-applying-tilemaps/ so I applied it (very quickly I might add) to the above map generator and ended up with: [pmc]krakatomato/tiled-procedural-caves[/pmc] (Use the arrow keys to move the map around and hold down shift and press up or down to scale it) The tiling code is ridiculously short and simple - amazing The source code is available on PMC.
Mon, 07 May 2012, 12:57
rockford	We discussed something like this before - socoder.net/index.php?topic=2308&seenpost=26508#26508
Mon, 07 May 2012, 14:15
Krakatomato	Thanks for the excellent link - provides greater detail to the other I posted
Tue, 08 May 2012, 10:21
daniel11111112	awesome ive been thinking of starting a dungeon crawler/rpg but didnt know how to do a randomly generateing map so ill try this :3