Utility: RanDom - SemiRandomizer and Dom3 random map gen...

[Ballbarian]

The version in this thread is really old.
For the latest version, see the link in my sig.

[MadFrancis]

Originally Posted by Ballbarian

The version in this thread is really old.
For the latest version, see the link in my sig.

Thanks. Works like a charm now.

[Bomshanka]

Hello Ballbarian and others who might answer this

Whenever I try to make a map of relatively large size (+1000) I always end up with a map where the forest is missing on the upper half like in the image below...
What am i doing wrong? - my settings are as below:

Edit: and btw my experience is that it doesn't matter if the terrain adds up to 100% or exceeds it...


Thanks -
/Bomshanka

[Gandalf Parker]

Looks like it might be a problem with lack of computer memory.

And yes, good point. The percentages can exceed 100%. Thats because Dom3 can mix terrains within a province. So if you said that you wanted 60% forest and 60% mountain then you would end up getting many provinces that are both forest and mountain.

[Bomshanka]

Hi Gandalf

Thanks for your swift reply - I played around with it for a bit and i seems that if I keep below a total of around 90% it looks fine with these sizes
- and maybe it is true that memory could be an issue, though i've had a look at consumption and RanDom uses about 560.000KB at peak which is alot but I have 2 GB on this machine so it should not be a problem - what i found out also is that the mess-up is more significant if I minimize the program while generating...
Im not sure - but i managed to make a nice looking map after a couple of hours

/Bomshanka

[lch]

I wouldn't be amazed if there are limits to the number of sprites that are drawn during random map generation.

Originally Posted by Bomshanka

Im not sure - but i managed to make a nice looking map after a couple of hours

You're crazy. The random map generator is known to be quite inefficient in places, I hope somebody comes up with something better soon. Would already help if you could decouple the separate phases from each other, but I guess that isn't really possible.