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[Showbiz]

May some one explain to me, what the myth generator is and how it affects the gameplay? Can we look it up on the legends mode?
I have a very rough idea. Sorry if that have been asked before, but all I read feels very vague.

Toady on PC Gamer

We’ve got this prototype myths generator that does more or less what we need. It creates the civilizations, it has some types of magic systems, and that’s really what we wanted to get out of it. Makes some kind of landforms.

Whe had creation of civs and landforms already, didn't we?
Whats about the magic?

[Shonai_Dweller]

Did you watch the demo yet?http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1023372/Practices-in-Procedural

It's a tool to be used as part of the next arc (on magic and npc artifact creation) to procedurally introduce magic into world generation (and cosmic egg shells, alternate planes and other stuff).

When Toady says it creates civilizations he means it creates the mythological beginnings of each of the races rather than just plonking them down with no explanation in a random spot of the world at the start of known history. Landforms are something to do with cosmic eggshell fragments. Um....

[Atian the Elephantman God]

Sounds interesting!

[Showbiz]

Did you watch the demo yet?http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1023372/Practices-in-Procedural

It's a tool to be used as part of the next arc (on magic and npc artifact creation) to procedurally introduce magic into world generation (and cosmic egg shells, alternate planes and other stuff).

When Toady says it creates civilizations he means it creates the mythological beginnings of each of the races rather than just plonking them down with no explanation in a random spot of the world at the start of known history. Landforms are something to do with cosmic eggshell fragments. Um....

I read about the demo. I was looking for it, but didn't find it. Going to watch it immediately.
Thank you very much, Shonai_Dweller. Makes much more sense now!

Referring to the Demo: Tarn is the coolest programmer i've ever seen hehehe.

[therahedwig]

Yeah, the idea of the mythgen is that it generates pre-history for all races, and Toady has stated several times he'd really like to get some of the bigger events in the myths to have an effect on the world gen, so that, if there's a cosmic egg breaking, and the mythgen says they fell into the sea, the worldgen will make big cosmic egg-material landmasses in the sea. (And then, make the civ entities smart enough to use these locations if they're magically inclined)

[exdeath]

OPS, Replied on a wrong thread.