Procedural Generation for beginners[PDF]

This is a tutorial on Procedural Generation for beginners. This part doesn't contain anything spectacular, just some basics on Arrays and how to manipulate them.

1st Part

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2nd Part [29-July-2011]

PDF

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5811650/Progentut2/Tutorial.doc.pdf

HTML

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5811650/Progentut2/Tutorial.doc.zip

I was promised procedurally generated caves, and all I got was grass and water ... I feel robbed ! <img src="smileys/smiley36.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

This is the first part introducing people to the Array object. The next part will contain caves,I promise! :D

When will the next part come? This helped me alot i can now make "Rivers, Flowers, Trees, Sand, etc" But i dont know what game i should make yet :(

The next part will come in a week or two, I was busy in some other projects. Sorry for the delay.

This is great! Can't wait for the next part. :D

Here's the 2nd(final) part.

PDF

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5811650/Progentut2/Tutorial.doc.pdf

HTML

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5811650/Progentut2/Tutorial.doc.zip

I'd prefer the HTML download, since the layout in the PDF is pretty bad.

I haven't verified the tutorial, if you find any mistake please post it here.

This is so helpful! You have no idea.

Also, what is with the odd ground objects in the four corners? I get that on every map.

I too noticed that while I was writing the tutorial, but didn't know what was causing it at that time.

It happens because of the 'clean up' events, the condition checks if the number of neighboring wall times is more than or equal to 3, if it is less than 3 then convert the current tile to ground. It works good for all the tiles except the corner tiles, because no matter what, the number of neighboring wall tiles will never be greater than 3.

If we change the condition from 'less than or equal to 3' to 'less than 3', it fixes the corner tiles problem, but for some reason the 3rd tile is always blank or sometimes a ground tile. I have no idea why that happens.

I'll try to find out. Glad you liked the tutorial. :)

I have a couple questions. First, I want the ground to be randomly generated from a few different textures. So let me explain. I have three different types of "ground" textures: grass, tundra, desert. Each has its own value (will be a resource value in game). I want to make it so that the miner sprites will leave behind a random choosing of the three. Is there a way to do that? Also, is there a way to have the clean up event turn whatever is not desert, grass, or tundra into ocean?

I know this is pretty old but just wondering if anyone ever had found any way of increasing the fps

Zacharianinja Do you mean to increase the performance? I'm not sure if there's optimizations that can be made to the events, so upgrading CPU might help.

Otherwise, you can change the frame limiting in the Properties box for the entire project (from the Project Bar on the left)

is there a C2 .capx example of this tutorial?

pcfernandesjr actually, there doesn't even seem to be a Construct Classic cap of the file either sadly (it's PDF instructions), but the steps would be similar in C2 I assume.

Definitely gotta read this. Posting so I can find it later.