Vyralator Posted February 20 Report Posted February 20 A while ago I remember having a very specific map in mind, that I wanted to generate and the parameters that you can set like Landcover and Landcover Scale all just felt very unintuitive (though this wiki page with the examples would have certainly helped if I had found it back then). So it was a very tedious process of tweaking the parameters, loading into the world, enabling noclip to fly around a bit and seeing if it looks like what I had in mind and going back to step one until I had something I liked. I was wondering if this process could be streamlined by having an optional map preview that you could display while entering the parameters. Something similar to what Factorio offers for example: So you could see at a glance how the parameters you enter, affect the world you'll get. I assume a possible counter to this might be, that Factorio's map generation is a lot simpler and in 2D, so generating a chunk of the map on the fly is very simple compared to Vintage Story, but I still wanted to throw the idea out there to see if it finds some resonance. 6
Hexaborg Posted Wednesday at 05:40 AM Report Posted Wednesday at 05:40 AM I really love this idea, i remember coming across a website that had a VS world gen preview before and it was really useful, i couldn't find that one but found a different one. This is it. It's a good tool, but i wish you could zoom out much further with it to get an idea of what the large landmass island shapes are like, but it's nice there is a tool out there atleast. 1
LadyWYT Posted Wednesday at 02:45 PM Report Posted Wednesday at 02:45 PM As long as it's optional. Part of the fun of generating a new world, in my opinion, is figuring out what the game handed you to work with, so seeing a preview pop up automatically when you open the "Customize Settings" tab would be a bit of a let-down.
Dilan Rona Posted Wednesday at 04:47 PM Report Posted Wednesday at 04:47 PM 11 hours ago, Hexaborg said: I really love this idea, i remember coming across a website that had a VS world gen preview before and it was really useful, i couldn't find that one but found a different one. This is it. It's a good tool, but i wish you could zoom out much further with it to get an idea of what the large landmass island shapes are like, but it's nice there is a tool out there atleast. Nice find there with that website.
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