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[Toady One]

I think I had just finished the basic temperature field when I left off.  I just added some others.  They don't do anything right now...  just some numbers that the world generator can use to make things more coherent.  Once I get them (temp, rainfall, wind, mist -- all earth-like ones for now) finished, I'll be able to use the information to make biomes.  Then I can use biomes to do ecosystems, which can be used to generate random creatures in the woods and so on, as well as the trees themselves.  I think that's the basic plan.  I'm not far enough along to have any clue as to when I'll be done with this release.

[Toady One]

I finished the fields, and they seem to be working...  I threw in some flavor fields (such as Light/Dark, Smooth/Jagged, etc.) so that everything created in a given area will be more cohesive if desired.  Right now this only affects the color of the soil and how much the altitude varies.  Later the appearance and disposition of creatures, vegetations, etc. will be changed...  in fact, I guess that's next.  Well...  first I'm going to put in map features.  These will be things like mesas, pits, spires, boulders...  anything that wasn't covered by the smoothly varying landscape.  I'm only doing simple ones for now.

Hopefully I'll have trees in a week or so.  And in the proper places they'll be dark and twisted and dead...

[ThreeToe]

... Unlike ThreeToe, who has just returned from an extended vacation  

[Toady One]

Keep it up, and you'll be a great dancer.  Yeah.  Finished the basic feature code.  The next task is ecosystems, including trees and all that.  Hopefully monumental progress will be made this weekend.  Then ground debris, crushing things, better travel interface, fix bugs, polish it up, and release.

I put in little pits and spires to test map features, and they don't quite work, but that's fine.  It doesn't print the tops of the spires at all times for some reason.