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[Keiseth]

Wow, great work! This is exceptionally helpful.

[uma]

I want to catch an elephant. However, the tropical forest is not found. Where can I find the elephant?

[Zonk]

This is just *GREAT*. I strongly suggest it's placed in the online wiki, by the way. It would be very useful. Also, maybe someone make a wiki page for putting online sets of parameters to generate specific worlds.

[Shadowlord]

I just figured out that dwarves apparently don't like savage areas - I tried to generate a world with 80-100 savagery, and every time got the 'no controllable entity' log error each time it didn't have too many subregions. Before that, when I had savagery set to 60-100, the three dwarf civs only had one-tile-sized empires.

I wonder if the other civs also don't like them.

[K4tz]

Hmm. I created an incredibly savage world with a few non savage spots for civilizations to crop up in. For some reason, despite the hills and mountains I created, the generator had problems making a dwarf civ. The human and elven civilizations were created though, and they hated each other's guts. There was a dragon but for some reason its only activity was killing a cat and a mule. Draconic Age? Ha.

[Misterstone]

I have been able to gen a world that is mostle desert dotted with several large oasis-like areas, some of which have a few forest squares within.  THe problem is, by the end of the history generation, there are never any elven civs.  Is it at all possible for elven civs to take root in just three or so squares of forest?

[Angry Lawyer]

As an aside, would anybody be interested in a program to import greyscale heightmaps into Dwarf Fortress?  It's difficult to get proper gradients with the built in editor so I've started throwing together something that'll do the hard parts for me.

-Angry Lawyer

[Calenth]

A question i don't think anyone's even asked yet --

has anyone determined what determines high wind / medium wind / no wind on a map yet? I wouldn't mind being able to guarantee that windmill farms would always be viable on my sites.

[Draco18s]

As an aside, would anybody be interested in a program to import greyscale heightmaps into Dwarf Fortress?  It's difficult to get proper gradients with the built in editor so I've started throwing together something that'll do the hard parts for me.

-Angry Lawyer

I'd love it!  I was thinking semi-consiously about it since I started exporting maps into Terrain Viewer and going, "if I tweak this shading here, and put it back in Dwarf Fortress...damn!  Can't!"

I'd of course start doing Weird Shit with GIMP and making random gradients and porting them into DF to see what they do.  That'd be immense fun!

[Angry Lawyer]

I'll start a thread after work with pictures of what I've done so far.

-Angry Lawyer

[Angry Lawyer]

Well, I'll avoid making a thread until I'm closer to finish, but it (vaguely) works



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-Angry Lawyer

[Oneir]

That's actually pretty neat, if random. You realize that you're now obligated to make random pixel art worlds now, right?

[Angry Lawyer]

Pretty much.

The MSN icon guy from the profile, inverted:



At the moment, the app only supports 17x17 worlds, and 17x17 images, but I'm fast working to resolve it.

-Angry Lawyer

[Draco18s]

That is awesome.
Does the input gradient need to be of a certain size, or will it scale?

And don't forget to do drainage, temp, and rainfall maps (whatever the worldpainter can take, at least).

[Angry Lawyer]

I'm aiming at making it scale, with a couple of extra parameters enterable to adjust the heightmap to the point where you can change the sea level, and the multiplier it uses to convert to the DF height levels, just in case you've got a washed out looking heightmap and need to up the contrast.

I'm just about to test 257x257 with a map of the UK.  Standby for awesomes.

-Angry Lawyer