Map generator

[XTF]

Their seed generator code should be found in the Dune Legacy source.

Where can the latest code be found? SF SVN doesn't appear to be up-to-date.

[MrFlibble]

Doesn't this link work? http://www.myway.de/richieland/dunelegacy-0.95b2-src.tar.bz2

That's supposed to be the source for the latest stable release.

[stefanhendriks]

So they wrote their own seed generator, that is compatible with dune 2's one? That is quite an achievement.

Really love to have a seed generator from the real dune 2 source! :D Thx jpexs!

[XTF]

Really love to have a seed generator from the real dune 2 source! :D Thx jpexs!

I assume they've done it the same way jpexs has done it.

[MrFlibble]

That is most probably the case :)

[jpexs]

Their seed generator code should be found in the Dune Legacy source.

I checked it now and on the first look - the algorithm seems to be the same.

It is placed in "MapSeed.cpp" file.

The method "SmoothNeighbourhood" in the file adds the spice to the map, so they have spice included.

They have decoded also functions "getCosinus" and "getSinus" which are needed for spice generation.

I didn't know these are sin and cos, so I have these precalculated values as arrays of bytes. (As stored from Dune2 memory)

Their code is working but not very well commented, the one MrFlibble posted (and which I modified) is more clear to understand.

[stefanhendriks]

Too bad it uses global vars and definitions that I also use in my game, it will take a while to convert the code so it works there as well :)

[jordos]

Too bad it uses global vars and definitions that I also use in my game, it will take a while to convert the code so it works there as well :)

Find & Replace all? :P

[stefanhendriks]

Nah, instead i have created a class cSeedMapGenerator and moved a lot of code there. It works now and i am very pleased with it. Great work!

[MrFlibble]

So D2TM won't need seed maps in the future? Cool ;D

[stefanhendriks]

Yes, seed maps are history.

I do wonder if it is easy to enhance the seed map generator for larger maps. Ie 128x128 ?

[NA9x2000]

this is a very nice work :D respect

as a part of my project i've converted you source into a c/c++ class

the source is available @ http://na9x2000.snakenet.org/dune2rm/source/

check the license if u are not happy with it tell me

it will be updated soon  e.g. to prevent console output

thanks a lot!

[stefanhendriks]

I do wonder if it is easy to enhance the seed map generator for larger maps. Ie 128x128

I figured that it would be easy to just 'double' the 64x64 generated map and run some smoothing operations on it myself. So this will probably be not a problem at all.