First attempt at procedural level generation

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Hello guys !

Recently I’ve become very interested by procedural level generation and I decided to give it a try. To start simple I choosed the famous Conway’s game of life. I implemented the algorithm using only Blueprint which wasn’t very easy to debug :stuck_out_tongue:

I know I could improve it and I’m open to any suggestion.

http://i.imgur.com/cS3NLc4l.png http://i.imgur.com/3jNnKVBl.png

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I love these sort of experiments. My (big) suggestion would be to expand it so it’s not all on a flat plane. The Z axis (for obvious reasons) is always neglected with these things.

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Nice! Cellular Automation?

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Great!

Im quite new to UE, I have come to play with HTML5. I have some GPU procedural generation done with javascript and Im looking for a way how to reimplement it and connect with blueprint. Could you say more about your way? :slight_smile:

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Yes it is :slight_smile:

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Very Nice in deed. Visually appealing as well. Wrote a cellular automation algo with unrealscript back in UDK using the based on this.

https://arcadekomodo.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/UDK-2013-12-01-00-39-15-56-150x150.png

Your work rekindled my interest in Conway’s Game of Life. Found inspiration that may be applicable for GOLEM Entity Construction. However, I will not be using cellular automation for procedural level generation in favor of the Depth First Search Algo:

https://arcadekomodo.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/maze-150x150.png

My recommendation, if you intend to add multiplayer or reuse a specific procedurally generated level, make use of Random Streams/Seed for random number generation. Keep us posted and good luck.

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Thank you for the recommendation to make use of Random Stream :wink:

I switched to a C++ implementation however I’m having an issue when I go in Play mode. My Instanced Static Mesh just disappear :frowning: Any idea what might be the problem here ?

Oh and do you do for the lighting ? I tried to build it and I get a warning: “Warning LevelGeneration The total lightmap size for this InstancedStaticMeshComponent is large, consider reducing the component’s lightmap resolution or number of mesh instances in this component”

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Awesome! would you be willing to post the actual blueprints? trying to figure out how to do something similiar and interested in how your implementation works :slight_smile: