Working on a seeding function for terrains, which overcomes some disadvantages of the ent_seed function (level.c):



It takes a heightfield, a probability map, an average distance, a minimal distance and generates a distribution (1st pass).

If relax is = true, all generated positions will be iterated in descending order of field probability (so that items with high field probability have more influence over lower probability items in terms of position stability) and too near items are pushed away, if the minimum distance is violated (2nd pass). If the previously generated random item probabilty then violates the (predefined) field probability, the item will be deleted; otherwise it gets updated (height and field probability).

Then, in the 3rd pass, pairs are searched for, that still violate the minimum distance, and are deleted as well.

After finishing this, for each item a callback will be called and the heightfield, the XYZ coordinates (in heightfield space) and the field probability at that location are passed. This gives me the opportunity to decide by myself what to do for each generated item:



In the function above I generate a cube on the terrain, whereas the scale of the cube represents the field probability at that very location.

It looks like this; the picture in the upper left corner shows the probability (black = 0%, white = 100%); parameters were average distance = 24 and minimum distance = 12:

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very cool HeelX,
are you gonna share this one with us once its finished? will it be also work on A7?

Thanks! - Maybe, but that decision has to be made in the future and although I own the rights for the code (it is part of a client's project), I don't know what happens afterwards.

@Pappenheimer :
Yes the reduce Brush will help a lot specially on surface with no details : surface details can be painted on normal map after the baking.
The point is that he needs to make lot more regular surfaces, less disturbed, it looks very like some Clay trying on curves.

I made some torso in the same style :


Perhaps it's better to have basi surface good and regular before painting details on the normal map.

So i started making some lizard monster also !

Some work this evening:

Minecraft Map Exporter

It uses "real" chunk data and ignores all non-floor materials
You can also export maps with full texturing and full size (one block = 16x16 pixels)

Map Top Down (Warning: Huge File! About 11 MB))

Exporter output:



Generated heightmap:

Toying around with one of my small projects.
The old C64 game Commando in retro 3dgs style

Some early shots : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZk-hEgfqTg

Iphone commando remake :
Iphone commando

Perhaps it's beta ,the contrast and luminosity between palm trees and grass is too much (grass is too much blokc color dark and palm tree is too much lightened).

You can take this picture as example of good textures color and luminosity :


For cartoon here is another style :


But the gameplay is here and great already

Some progress on the lizard in general shape (more humanoid like).
Perhaps some 3DGS future contribution

@ratchet are you working on those games or was it to show me ?

(I also think it would be nice to stay only with Gamestudio related screenshots. External screenshots only per link.)