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Map Generation Tools

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2014 2:25 pm
by gareth_w
OK, in comparison to the mapping tools thread, can anyone post their favourite map generation tools/algorithms? This is a personal interest of mine; though I wish I had something polished to share.

Some links top get things started:

love this algorithm for islands:
http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~am ... /demo.html

I've got good results from Terrajen here, but hard to use for more than a picture I find
http://terraj.sourceforge.net/

and quite a few small ones here:
http://donjon.bin.sh/

Would really like a nice city generator, if anyone knows of one? Great if you can add all you can to the list.

Re: Map Generation Tools

Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2014 9:19 pm
by Toodice
I found a random city generator here, but the cities it generates tend to be a bit uninteresting. There's also some commercial software called Cityographer that has a free version available. I've not tried it yet, but it may interest you.

I while back I started messing around with using perlin noise to generate land masses. I was quickly put off because they tended to all look alike, and the random placement of features such as mountains and lakes was hard to make geological excuses for. It's fine for small islands, but entire continents tend to be a bit unrealistic. However, simulating tectonic plate movement isn't anywhere near as easy to do as overlaying some random numbers at different resolutions. It's not impossible though, as this guy has proved.

Re: Map Generation Tools

Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2019 9:53 pm
by mikevil
The Cityographer/Worldographer software package from Inkwell designs has some great city/world autogeneration features. The mapping is not as easy to use as OTW.