So is this fully functional yet?
Good question. I think this is a topic that you can extend forever, however, you already have many tools to make some smalls games or levels with it.
It was a long time since my last update, that is because the next update will be a huge one that will use noise maps and not that pre-made snippets. That means, all the additional features, decoration, entrance & exit handling, and all the articles on my blog won't work on the new generation technique. So at the moment I'm trying out various ways how to implement those features that they're still easy to use.
Well, actually I wanted to wait a little bit longer until I present more, but as you already revived my thread, I think I can accounce some new features
- Game designers can define a 1, 2, or 3-dimensional map that is mapping a noise map into a game map, e.g. use first dimension for floor, walls, second dimension for grass, dirt, lake, and third dimension for whatever
- Game designers can define assets and on what terrain they can be spawned, e.g. a waterfall can be spawned on locations having water and wall, trees on the floor but not on roads..
- Game designers can build paths, that are made using A*-algorithm. At the moment it only works from a starting point to the ending point, so you can enforce that there will be definitely a way from start to the end
I think the first 2 tasks already work quite well, but I'm not happy yet with the path. And also, due to the nature of randomness, I don't know yet how I can spawn treasure chests or other events with a proof, that you can actually walk to them, without having blocked paths.
