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[Sheb]

Ok that's beautiful.

Because nothing define a DF player like a graphical orgasm after seeing one layer of slightly-darker ACSII symbols.

[voodooattack]

Ok that's beautiful.

Because nothing define a DF player like a graphical orgasm after seeing one layer of slightly-darker ACSII symbols.

Indeed, always thought it was missing from DF, that's why I added it. To see what it'd look like.

It won't be purely ornamental though, you'll be able to shoot down hills once I add projectiles.

[Sheb]

Yeah, it's a really good and cool idea. Although you can shoot downhill in DF too. I just found Tiruin's reaction funny. :p

[Tiruin]

Your wording has double...x3
But yes, that's just me in total awe because I love art and have a very high inclination towards those stuffs.
...Or you could say it that way, yeah. ASCII Scenery porn is what voodoo may be doing. :v

I like how the tiles are now compact compared to before. They look sorta...cute.

[voodooattack]

Wow, nobody branded my code as art before, but thank you!

I'm working on tile type interpolation between different biomes right now, it's more difficult than expected. I'll post screenshots later when I'm done.

[Gamerlord]

So what kinds of biomes are you including?

[voodooattack]

So what kinds of biomes are you including?

I have these so far:

[
  {
    "name":"Plains",
    "sym":".",
    "style":{"fgcolour":"Yellow", "attributes":["Dim"]},
    "materials":["Dirt"],
    "foliage":["Grass"],
    "layerStart":0,
    "layerEnd:":2,
    "mapColour":"#827f00"
  },
  {
    "name":"Grasslands",
    "sym":"~",
    "style":{"fgcolour":"Green", "attributes":["Dim"]},
    "materials":["Dirt"],
    "foliage":["Grass"],
    "layerStart":0,
    "layerEnd:":2,
    "mapColour":"#00ff00"
  },
  {
    "name":"Desert",
    "sym":"~",
    "style":{"fgcolour":"Yellow", "attributes":["Bold"]},
    "materials":["Sand"],
    "layerStart":0,
    "layerEnd:":2,
    "mapColour":"#00ffff"
  },
  {
    "name":"Beach",
    "sym":"~",
    "style":{"fgcolour":"Yellow", "attributes":["Bold"]},
    "materials":["Sand"],
    "layerStart":0,
    "layerEnd":1
  },
  {
    "name":"Mountain",
    "sym":"^",
    "style":{"fgcolour":"White", "attributes":["Dim"]},
    "materials":["Rock", "Hills"],
    "layerStart":0,
    "layerEnd":50,
    "mapColour":"#ff0000"
  },
  {
    "name":"Sea",
    "sym":"~",
    "style":{"fgcolour":"Blue", "bgcolour":"Blue", "attributes":["Dim"]},
    "materials":["SaltWater"],
    "layerStart":0,
    "layerEnd":-10,
    "mapColour":"#0000ff",
    "background":true,
    "flat":true
  },
  {
    "name":"Arctic",
    "sym":".",
    "style":{"fgcolour":"Yellow", "attributes":["Dim"]},
    "materials":["Snow"],
    "layerStart":0,
    "layerEnd:":2,
    "mapColour":"#ffffff"
  }
]

But those are mainly for testing. When the time comes it'll have all kinds of biomes. You can define your own too.

[Gamerlord]

Maybe you should add Lowlands and Highlands?

[voodooattack]

Sure, once I'm done with this mess.

Edit:

This is how messy things are right now:

[Gamerlord]

If you want someone to expand/do the drudge work ask. There's probably someone around here who knows enough.

[voodooattack]

I'm always open for collaboration, if anyone feels like contributing I'll welcome them aboard.
What I'm in need of is a math genius though. I'm always lost when it comes to equations with anything other than alphabets in them.

[Gamerlord]

I can't be of any help with the math unfortunately; probably my worst subject at this point.

[scrdest]

There is a math help thread, you can try there.

[cerapa]

How exactly are you genning the terrain?

In particular, where do the heights that you interpolate between come from?

[voodooattack]

There is a math help thread, you can try there.

Thanks for the heads up, though I don't think that'll help me turn algorithms to code.

How exactly are you genning the terrain?

A combination of perlin noise and bicubic interpolation of the heightmap. Two separate generators, one for elevation and one for tile selection. Biomes can have any number of materials in them and I need to smooth out each sector's edges with the surrounding ones, and that's what I'm failing at at the moment.

I'm using a Voronoi diagram to determine the adjacency rules and general layout of the surrounding cells, and that generates a polygon with a list of possible materials at each vertex. I want to interpolate them somehow to produce plausible landscapes. I'm thinking spline interpolation but that's difficult as hell to implement, and then I'd have to somehow convert the floating-point result into a meaningful array index.