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[Talvieno]

Genned this yesterday.

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PerfectWorldDF is an excellent tool if you're trying to create something that exists in real life (or even just a heightmap of your face). It's as accurate as your heightmap, and mine was a bit messed up in the area of southern Europe. (also, the larger the area, the less correct the biomes are, since it bases everything on a single wind direction, unless you do it manually. which I didn't.)

[GreatWyrmGold]

Why is Antarctica a heavily settled mountain range with forests towards the north? And why is Australia so lush? And what's that volcano doing off the Chinese coast? Where's the Mediterranean sea or any of the world's big deserts? And why is the ocean evil and Antarctica and Australia good?

Also, can you upload something to let us gen that?

[pisskop]

Does that have regular genprams?  In that If I plugs your genprams into my vanilla game, would this come back out?

[PTTG??]

It's funny you mention this, because I just recently put together a map for Deon's Post Apocalypse mod which is, basically, North America.

It's designed for an apocalypse, which is why the Midwest is nothing but badlands and deserts.

[AutomataKittay]

Why is Antarctica a heavily settled mountain range with forests towards the north? And why is Australia so lush? And what's that volcano doing off the Chinese coast? Where's the Mediterranean sea or any of the world's big deserts? And why is the ocean evil and Antarctica and Australia good?

Also, can you upload something to let us gen that?

Worldgen only have temperature gradient going one way north/south I bet Antarctica is scorching all across it.

As for the volcano, that looks like it's where Taiwan would be, but I'm pretty bad at geology. Deserts seems to exist as mountains, though there are some in middle of Africa.

[GreatWyrmGold]

When I make big worlds, they are bipolar. Erm, they have both north and south poles.

[AutomataKittay]

When I make big worlds, they are bipolar. Erm, they have both north and south poles.

I've never genned a world that's had ice cap on both north/south ends, only on one end and gradienting up to scorching on other end. It did made me comment somewhere that DF world seem to be more like tidally locked planet with orbital heliosat to light up the cold pole.

[PTTG??]

When I make big worlds, they are bipolar. Erm, they have both north and south poles.

...Probably not true.

[Talvieno]

Yeah, in DF you get a pole and an equator. Genning the earth messed things up, and you were right, AutomataKitty - Antarctica was a desert. That messes things up quite a bit, but there wasn't much I could do. Like I said, it's better for smaller areas, particularly where there's only one wind direction and temperature scale.

I'd post the gen file, but it's a lot longer than 40k characters. A LOT longer... 515k characters total.

Does that have regular genprams?  In that If I plugs your genprams into my vanilla game, would this come back out?

Yeah, besides location of evil/good areas and civs, it gens the exact same way every time.

[Darvi]

Luxembourg would be optimal. Perfectly good fort and a flourishing mining industry are already available, so one'd only need to dwarfify... dwarfinate... make it more dwarven.

[WaffleEggnog]

-snip- The world in DF -snip-

Could you throw it up on DFFD so I can try it please? It looks really neat.

[Talvieno]

Sure, will do. And for kicks, I'll also throw in a couple others.

edit: DFFD is apparently offline at the moment, but I'm trying.

[Talvieno]

http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=7169
Here it is. It includes three maps I've previously made: The Earth, the UK, and Middle Earth.

edit: also, I apparently double-posted... not sure how that happened, but sorry.

reedit: One thing I forgot to mention, and DFFD is acting up again. You'll need to edit the params to turn off the required biome settings. Turn off all wetlands - hills params (set to "NONE") for:
minimum initial ________ square count
minimum initial ________ region count
minimum final ________ region count

[Lazerlatté]

Pangea, so I can go around slaying dinosaurs 

[misko27]

Azerbaijan, because it has the most diverse climes and geography in such a small area.