The algorithmic generation of content at runtime, as oppose to the manual placement of preset content and assets.
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Dual Marching Cubes QEF Explanation
I've been stumped by trying to fully wrap my head around the formula presented for the QEF formula presented within the dual marching cubes paper.
The formula that is presented is such:
w = actual ...
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Unity material.color not changing color
I'm trying to change a material color programmatically using this line of code:
ringObj.GetComponent<Renderer>().material.color = new ...
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Gameobjects disappearing when changing renderer.material.color
I'm generating an array of objects using this code:
while(currentPosition.z < poolSize){
var ringObj = GameObject.Instantiate(ring) as GameObject;
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1D Perlin Noise Game in Unity
I'm working on a 2D side-scrolling game in the Unity engine. I am using the 1-Dimensional Perlin Noise function and using pseudo-code. I can't use two links so I'll provide a link to imgur with the ...
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How i can make a spherical world with Cubiquity in Unity
I would like to make a spherical planet with cubiquity in Unity 5, how could I do it with a for (), so I could one cubic planet.
Can anybody help me?
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Procedural generation of jagged peaks
I would like to generate random cave type backgrounds similar to the one shown below.
I doubt anything I generate will look as good as the image, but something with that feel of sharp, jagged peak ...
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What is the mesh generation technique shown in Chrome Music Lab?
The Google toy of the day, https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Spectrogram, features a continuously scrolling 3D render of a shape with cross sections that seem to equal the spectrograph of sound ...
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How can I generate a (relatively) linear dungeon path?
We developing a concept for an action side-scroller. What we need is a way to generate a (relatively) straight map. By this I mean something like...
It's clear to see that this map follows one ...
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How do I generate random mountains in a sidescroller?
So I'm trying to make a simplified Terraria style world using Perlin noise. I got that working and the terrain is randomized. However the terrain always looks like like a weird cosines curve. Hills ...
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How does one generate mountains out of a Fourier transform?
I am watching this IGN video of No Man's Sky in which the founder/programmer of this game talks about how different is his game from other games. Here he talks about how mathematical equations instead ...
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Game states & passing data between scenes
I'm not entirely sure if I'm doing this right, but I always considered the scene system in Unity as some sort of state management (rather than e.g. a level system) which allows to group the contents ...
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What is best method for 2D pathfinding in procedural world?
I have been researching path-finding for 2D games and would like to create a system that allows A* to perform as best as possible over a near infinite world. This system is intended to manage not only ...
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Random layout rooms with intersecting walls
I am trying to layout few rectangle rooms on un unlimited map. The main condition is that every next room has to intersect with one of already placed with at least one point of the wall.
The ...
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Show procedural map without running the game?
Currently I have a script that generates prefabs by code and I'm wondering if I could show a certain "seed" of that map without actually running the game. The reason why is that I often want to tweak ...
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Floating point determinism with respect to procedural generation, clustering and GPU offloading
I've been designing a distributed procedural generation system for a while now in my spare time and one of the problem's I've been thinking about recently, with respect to the broader architecture, is ...
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Terracing mountain features
I'm looking to replicate a procedural terrain effect I found on a portfolio/blog site a few days ago.
Quoting the site, the terracing was generated through, "multiplying [the final height] by some ...
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Simplyfing/dissolving octree to simple boxes by adjacent octants with similar traits
I am looking forward to create a navigation volume to be utilized by AI actors.
The approach I am trying to tackle here is to first generate an octree and associate with respectable flags/data (type, ...
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Vector math to calculate the rotation and drift of a tectonic plate?
I've been following the excellent Experilous procedural planet generation post, trying to recreate it in Java using libGDX. My planet is simpler, as it lacks any distortion of the mesh. It's just ...
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How to achieve a layered terrain simlar to Godus
I'm currently playing around with a few examples and techniques for terrain generation and suddenly remembered the game Godus - seen below.
Youtube clip of Godus
Looking at the material above, it ...
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What is the best way to group lots of squares into one VBO?
I'm making my first game in OpenGL, using procedural generation, and it is a similar concept to Terraria. At the moment, I have one, very small VBO for a square ('block') and an EBO for its vertices. ...
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Procedural Islands Voronoi Pattern
I'm trying to keep this as simple as possible, as I've found out the last few days this is a very difficult topic. I'd like to generate multiple flat islands, formed by a voronoi diagram. I've ...
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Terrain Generation - Only draws first sprite and last row on the X axis
So, I have a problem where I'm trying to loop trough columns of sprites, that later will be drawn to fill a specific area.
But it only renders the first sprite and the last row of sprites on the X ...
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Procedural Dungeon Generation Connect Rooms With Passageways
I've been working on a simple procedural generation class which currently places rooms on a x, y grid and selects a starting room. Each room needs to be connected with passageways so the player will ...
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How To generate spiky terrain in 2D?
I am learning game design, and wanted to know how one can automatically generate spiky terrain (something like this: Cavernaut, notice, the terrain at the sides?). I have heard about midpoint ...
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How to generate mesh at runtime using raycast points?
I'm trying to make a clone of the trail/line renderer with the difference that everything is perfectly flat, i.e. the faces are not designed to face the camera. I'm using two raycasts to get the ...
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Adjacency in procedural generation of dungeon
I wanted to make a procedural dungeon experimenting a new approach, it works nice for random-meaningless content (in example a procedural background to a level), however when I want it to be ...
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How should I store a procedurally generated grid level of an infinite size?
I have a 2d grid level. It infinitely grows. If it was not of infinite size, a 2D array would be perfect, as I need to constantly have each grid talk to its neighbors.
For example, with a 2D ...
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Adding terrain features to a perlin noise heightmap
I'm currently using Perlin Noise to generate heightmaps and model moisture levels as well as tree density to create terrain (in the form of 2D tilemaps - think dwarf fortress).
How can I generate ...
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How can I randomly generate achievements?
Novice programmer here.
To challenge my self i want to create an achievement system that randomly generates achievements for me based on a set of trackable metrics within my game.
To keep it as ...
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Marching Square Generated 2d Terrain: Dealing with more than 2 tile types
I need some help with my random map generator. First, I use a noise generator (something like Perlin noise) to create my tile array. For now i'm using three tiles: water (0), beach (1), and grass ...
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Removing seams between procedurally-generated spherical terrain tiles
I'm working on procedural planet generation project in Unity. To create a sphere, I use the following technique:
Create six planes arranged as faces of a cube
Normalize all vertices' positions to ...
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Diamond square algorithm
I'm working on generating terrain on already generated landmass. The landmass and ocean around it consist of hexagons. Hexagons aren't really a concern for me, because I can always interpolate the ...
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How do I save a procedurally-generated map as binary level-data in C++? [closed]
For example, I'd like to do something as simple as a generating an array matrix using Conway's Game of Life and then filling each cell with particular data to be saved to a binary file.
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Vertex position problem for connected lines
I’m trying to generate a mesh to display connected segments representing street lines in a mini map. I have problem with vertex orientation that my math knowledge has hard time to resolve.
Let’s ...
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Question on specific custom inspector
Ive just finished Alex Stv's Voxel tutorial on http://alexstv.com/index.php/category/voxel-tutorial, and realized it would be very handy to have a custom inspector for the TerrainGenerator variables, ...
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How to do Marching Cubes Meshing in unity 3D
I'm getting very peculiar results from my marching cubes based surface generator within unity and figured this must be a pretty common problem that has been solved already, so I thought I would ...
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Procedural Breakout level generation [closed]
I am currently developing a Breakout game for a school project, and I've decided to use it as an opportunity to get started with procedural content generation. I took a quick look at some of the basic ...
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Overcoming float limitations for planet-sized worlds in Unity
As far as I know, going further than 1M units from the world origin in Unity is hardly possible due to floating point precision issues.
Making a world more than 1M units in radius would require ...
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Smoothing edges on procedural terrain
Using perlin noise to create a procedural island for a tile-based game. My map is stored in a 2d array, with each tile having a type (deep water, shallow water, beach, grass, forest, hill, mountain).
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How do I control texture appearance based on game play events?
In an FPS I am developing, I am procedurally altering the appearance of textures based on game play events, and would like to know if the way I have implemented this was a good idea.
Right now, on ...
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How irregularly shaped rooms should be placed in a dungeon
I have made a procedurally generated dungeon that places every room successfully so it is accessible via at least one other room. A 'successfully' placed room is a room who's wall cells are right net ...
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Procedurally generate rivers for 2-d heightmap terrain
I created an algorithm to procedurally generate 2d worlds based on a heightmap grid. (I used a 2d simplex noise algorithm mapped on the inverse of the distance of each pixel from the center, to ...
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Generating 'Specially' shaped rooms for a Dungeon
I've made a fairly simple dungeon generator but now I want to expand on it so that I can procedurally generate a dungeon with irregular shaped rooms. I don't just want any old crazy shapes popping up ...
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Why are dungeons so often created subtractively rather than additively?
I'm having difficult deciding on how to procedurally generate a dungeon floor. The way I've been doing it so far is like so:
Populate list of Rooms with random height and width.
Place first room in ...
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Why can't I patch my procedural terrain together?
I figured out how to implement a midpoint displacement algorithm to generate a map for my game. I wanted to create an infinitely large world, so I tried to patch two maps together, but they didn't ...
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My attempt at a drunkard walk algorithm seems to generate large groups instead of more linear paths
...and I'm not sure if that's normal due to the random nature of the algorithm or am I doing something wrong. What I'm doing is:
Set a random point within map boundaries (which I called a sandbox).
...
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Unity3D - generating a set of rooms (scenes) and saving them
I'm having a problem wrapping my head around scenario like this.
Say I've got a scene called Room. Now, my game procedurally generates content of each room. Entering a new room to see new content, ...
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What is the most appropriate path-finding solution for a very large proceduraly generated environment?
I have been reading quite a bit in order to make the following choice: which path-finding solution should one implement in a game where the world proceduraly generated, of really large dimensions?
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Matching a chunk of procedurally generated world to a chunk of other world
Have you read The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny?
Imagine yourself playing in 3rd person MMO game. You spawn in the world and start to wander around. After some time, when you think, that ...
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Procedural Turn Based Puzzle Generation?
Alright, we have a large set of possible moves (what the player is allowed to do). We also have a well defined state of success that defines the desired goal.
We want to generate a configuration where ...
