a Worldmap generator - new version with Biome generation

[chezrom]

NEW VERSION with :

• rain & temperature computation
• display inform about the pointed cell (temperature, biome, altitude ...)
• biome generation (Tundra, Rain Forest, ...)
• 3 view : altitude, altitude with rain level & biome view. Switch between view with TAB key

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The new views :

The rain level

worldgen_rain.jpg (27.12 KiB) Viewed 4349 times

The biome

worldgen-biome.jpg (47.14 KiB) Viewed 4349 times

Some post dungeon or word generator. So I post a worldmap generator (with sea and relief) I do to test some other ideas.
It don't use perlin noise nor fractal. It grows seas (with pseudo random) from lines seed and compute relief (with diffusion, not very perfect) on land.
Each cell of my map is 5x5 pixels.



The world is a cylinder. To rotate : Left mouse button and drag
To regenerate a new map : right mouse button.

[Eamonn]

Looks pretty awesome! I like it!

[chezrom]

Looks pretty awesome! I like it!

Thank you.

[Mermersk]

This is very cool chezrom.

[chezrom]

This is very cool chezrom.

Yeah thank you ! And to be more cool, I post a new version with Climate & Biome generation, and multiple views (TAB to swith between them).
The love file is in the first post.

At the bottom of the screen, I display information about the cell pointed by the mouse :

• latitude
• altitude, in meters
• temperature, in Celcius degrees
• rain (100=max of the map)
• the biome.

For the Climate & Biome computation I have adapted a cool work done by Jice, author of the libtcode library for rogue-like.
The cool work can be found here, under the name "world generator", among other jewels.
A good article of Jice about precipitation and rain can be also found here.

My code is not similar : I don't use the same land mass generation, nor erosion and my winds model is not the same (I use east/west winds and a wind pattern nearer of the earth). Else the code for biome (using Whittaker biome diagram), for rain computation and for temperature is the same.

I think, however, than some tuning must be done, for example I find that equatorial forests are misplaced.

Enjoy !

[Zer0]

It looks really cool.

I changed the rendering to render it on a canvas ONCE instead of drawing the entire map every frame.

It looks exactly the same but it renders faster ( and may have a little extra load time )

[BulbaMander]

Really cool, I like it a lot. I noticed that islands that are around 10-15 pixels wide will register as sea, and be biome 0. Just though Id let you know.

EDIT: I looked a little closer, and the program recognizes the island, it just isnt showing up as a Biome, idk why but yea what I said is wrong.