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Sylverone

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Extended Dwarfwiki World Generation page
« on: March 08, 2008, 08:18:00 am »

I've always been very curious about some of the specifics of world generation, so any information concerning that has always been of interest to me. Yesterday, I was reading the interview between Gamasutra and Toady, where he gives a fairly detailed look into both world generation and the fluid/pressure simulation used by DF.

The Interview (world gen: pg.7, fluid/pressure sim. pg.9-10) http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3549/interview_the_making_of_dwarf_.php?page=7

Anyways, since I figured that there are others interested in the underlying process, I added a new section to the page concerning World Generation in the Dwarfwiki. It gives an overall breakdown of the steps DF goes through to generate a playable world.

Wiki Page Here: http://www.dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/World_generation#How_World_Generation_Works

There are a few places where I'm not sure the info is 100% accurate, but overall it's laid out pretty well. Feel free to improve upon it.

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Re: Extended Dwarfwiki World Generation page
« Reply #1 on: March 08, 2008, 11:32:00 am »

Very cool, good read. Thanks for taking the time to do that!
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Re: Extended Dwarfwiki World Generation page
« Reply #2 on: March 08, 2008, 02:02:00 pm »

This makes me wonder, does Toady have a...I guess there called accounts...on the DFwiki?

Maybe he posts modding stuff incognito.  I wonder if he ever did something like that and then somebody came by and said 'No, thats wrong.'? Heh.

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Re: Extended Dwarfwiki World Generation page
« Reply #3 on: March 08, 2008, 02:14:00 pm »

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