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[that_eye]

Alright, it's difficult to put my idea into words, but what I'm thinking is that during world gen, each civilization will produce a text file / several text files that include "rooms" to be inserted into randomly generated places. different civs will have different generated rooms / architectural motifs that repeat from fortress to fortress.

If a player creates a new room file, then new fortresses in the world will start including rooms like that in generated fortresses, and when a player-made fort is retired, abandoned, or crumbles to its end, a random segment of the fort could be output as a new room for the civ - meaning that player architectural decisions will be copied by their parent civ.

when I say "room file", I am envisioning something like this:

Code: [Select]

.#####.
##...##
#.ccc.#
#.ccc.#
#.ccc.#
##...##
.#####.
where # is a wall or stone or some such , . represents empty space, and c represents a carpenter workshop or some such. Only some things should be specifically generated like this: halls, temples, libraries, inns/taverns, throne rooms, meeting areas. Maybe not all of these are generated for every civ, either.

[Rowanas]

Ah, while it's a fine idea, I was hoping that we'd get cultural designations like the procgen clothes items, so some civs would have corinthian columns, while others have Doric or Solomonic styles.

[Azerty]

Do you means different architectures for each civilization, dictating the layout of the rooms and how they are decorated? In some years it might be doable, especially if Toady add more possibilities of customizing the rooms.

[that_eye]

Do you means different architectures for each civilization, dictating the layout of the rooms and how they are decorated? In some years it might be doable, especially if Toady add more possibilities of customizing the rooms.

yes, precisely!

[therahedwig]

There's been previous threads on the topic, but Toady has mentioned he's afraid it won't be flexible enough.

Maybe we could consider a rule based architectural scheme, perhaps combined with some 'hard coded sections' like these.

Like, you could say, 'I want this CIV to use ellipsoid rooms always/sometimes/only for important buildings', and then, stuff like 'always has windows', 'corners are made of wood and long sections are made of timber', or 'double walls, inner walls are loam clay outer walls stone', 'rooms are always symmetrical'

Maybe have a curve definition for roof shapes, like, [0:0] for a perfectly flat roof, and [0:1] for diagonal, and then [0:0.5:0.75:1] for a somewhat rounded roof(maybe actually experienced modders have other feelings about this).