| Sat Oct 10 08:06:09 2020 by Dominick |
| I posted just a few days ago, but I just found something really cool to add to the map generator. I saw a 3-year-old post talking about biomes and while scouring the web I found a climate generator that takes any heightmap and sets it to the same water level as the planet generator and generates the climate for you. If you could somehow implement the climate generator and color the climates accordingly you could have a realistic color map for any generation. I already tried it on a few generations with good results. climate generator> https://space.geometrian.com/calcs/climate-sim.php example of seed 7181889 with climate> https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/755595315457032314/764364224222330900/biomes.png |
| Sat Oct 10 12:16:09 2020 by Torben |
| The problem with such biome generators is zooming: You need to generate for a whole planet, so you can not zoom into a part of the planet and get a more detailed biome. I don't know of any way to get zoomable biomes, and I will not add biomes to the generator until I do. Users are, of course, welcome to apply biome generators to output from the planet generator, as you have done. |
| Wed Jan 13 14:15:57 2021 by JustWilhelm |
| On the topic of this biome tool - is there a way I can reduce the tundra coverage it assigns? It seems to be a bit over-sensitive to even slightly higher land (see https://pasteboard.co/JJs1DjD.png). I've tried using non-linear altitude scaling but unfortunately the colour scale for this option seems to assign darker colours to upland areas but lighter colours to mountainous areas - so it ends up flooding the middle of my continents (see https://pasteboard.co/JJs1USi.png). Basically, I'm asking if I can generate a slightly different bathymetry map. |
| Thu Jan 14 12:21:06 2021 by Torben |
| I have a student working on integrating more realistic altitudes and zoomable biomes in the planet generator. If it turns out halfway decent, I will add it to the web tool and the downloadable program. |
| Fri Jan 15 12:02:59 2021 by JustWilhelm |
| That's sounds great. I'm looking forward to seeing it implemented if it works out. |
| Fri Jan 15 17:27:23 2021 by JustWilhelm |
| That's sounds great. I'm looking forward to seeing it implemented if it works out. |
| Fri Jan 22 03:40:08 2021 by Squish |
| With my map the calculator sees the darker altitude areas (dark brown/orange and dark green) as sea. By the same logic, some lighter areas in the sea are seen as land. This makes my map a little wonky and unusable because it doesn't make any sense. If anyone else got this problem, how did you fix it? |
| Fri Jan 22 12:50:06 2021 by Torben |
| @Squish: I'm not sure what you mean, but have you tried changing the colour map? |
| Fri Jan 22 17:21:51 2021 by Squish |
| @torben I've been using the standard colour (Olsson) I will switch the colour and let the community know through my post if there is a colour map without any problems! The planet map generator is great, just the program that Dominick recommended is not really working well with my map on planet map generator. I'm new to this kind of way of posting, so I don't know how to add images to show my findings. But my map has the seed: 11055866 Water level: -0.02 Center longitude at 185 splits the map nicely No contour lines and YES to adjusting colour by latitude (I've tried doing it without colour by latitude on and it still gets a weird result) |
