Random Map Generator - A Very Early Prototype

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@rimau;260029

Hi

Looks cool. Have you thought about slopes for the hills or are the vertical hills something that you want to go along with your visual style?

As for your pre-placed mape generation techniques you could go with something like that:

• get some basic “templates” of maps as separate UE4 levels (5x5, 10x10, etc), these you woluld load from a menu level based on the choice made in the menu
• and than you generate the rest of the random stuff in game, I guess anything you have defined with a variable you can define at the level start-up?

So by simply moving the stuff that is “hardcoded” into some options available in the game menu and preparing some basic, empty templates for that option choices you could get pretty flexible in runtime.

That’s interesting. I guess I was so focus on making terrains to work that I forgot about how will characters walk up or down those hills. I will make that part of the things to do.
Regarding the map size, I believe what you suggested will work, so any size below 10x10 should not be a problem. However, the performance with 20x20 might be too slow to generate, maybe like 8 seconds? For now, the 10x10 map generated in 2 to 3 seconds under the heaviest settings (max number of trees and buildings) with my cpu i5 3570. Everything is done through blueprint so things might get faster once I move it to c++.