Hi there, What would you say are the major differences between your approach and just using LuaRocks? As far as I can tell there isn't anything stopping you from writing a LuaRocks rockspec for libraries that don't already have them, but I guess you'd then need to host your own backend for dependenc...

Hi everyone, It’s been a while since I last needed to make an update to forma, but I’ve now accumulated enough changes to merit a new little release. Since the last time I posted the key updates have been: You can now generate patterns using Perlin noise and thresholds. In addition to the standard p...

Hi everyone, Keeping up with the so-far once monthly updates (not sure how long I can maintain that! :D). I've pushed a new version (0.3) of forma to the GitHub page. You can see a detailed changelog here: https://github.com/nhartland/forma/releases Mostly under the hood stuff, I think I'm as far as...

Thanks both, I hope it comes in useful!

Yesterday I pushed a new version of forma, including a few performance enhancements and several new features. There is now an examples gallery at https://github.com/nhartland/forma/tree/master/examples New features Implemented a 'mask' subpattern that masks out cells according to a provided function...

Hi all, Long time lurker here but this is my first post. I've been working for a while on a little toolkit, something I've mainly been using for roguelike map generation. It's a library in pure lua 5.1 for the manipulation of shapes and patterns on a 2D grid. You can see it on github: https://github...