Top Down City

[WILL]

Hey Delfi, the game is really looking great! You can see a very vast progression from your humble beginnings to the much more advanced level of the engine now. :thumbup: for the hard work it's paying off, I'd say!

Also, does this game have a story or is it just a free-for-all?

Nothing wrong with that, just asking. It's a great demo for the engine if you decide to make a 'whole game' afterwards with a story and missions, etc...

[JernejL]

A online game.. single-player only would be waste of the whole project (people would just play and dump it), i'm thinking of doing it something like mmo soldat crossed with gta

[savage]

That's not of any real use for such a game, such a generator might be useful for a flight sim game, but not something like this, where you need close-up detail.

I could be wrong, but I don't think you've taken the time to actually look through the site. Have a look at this in engine screen shot...

[ click for enlarged version ]
and tell me where the lack of details is?

There are videos available here - http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~pmuell...gine/Documents

[JernejL]

Ok, i admit i haven't checked the website completely, i just saw the website and it was familiar since i saw it few years ago, so i decided not to check it out further. this city generator may be useful for the next version of TDC, which i said will be fully 3d, and this which i'm building right now, is not storing maps as 3d geometry, but something similar to voxels, which allows very fast construction of cities in the editor.

[savage]

This method could replace your 3D editor in the current version and then be part of your engine in the next version. But I realise that this it probably not a good I dea this far into your project. Best to finish this one and then desing and code the next version with a clearer vision, which you already seem to have.

[WILL]

Well you could use the generator in your editor to create new cities at design time instead of load time. However it might also be useful to have a multiplayer setting for an auto-generated city instead of a pre-made one.

Would make the replay value of your game greater...

[JernejL]

It'd be impossible to integrate that map generating library into current map format, and i'm keeping current map format, since it is a lot more productive for making custom maps, and i want custom maps to be easily created by anybody who wants to, without having to push any user at a 3d modelling package.

[Angelo]

What about giving the environment ID's?

In example:
Warehouse is ID 1.
Lighthouse is ID 2.

Count the ammount of buildings/environment objects and make a random script that chooses numbers and place the chosen number at the spot.

In example:
Divide the map in 6x6 slices.
A1, A2, ... , B1, B2, ... F6.
Generate for each slice a number and that number is the ID of the environment object.

It's not a complete auto-generation, but it's very easy to create it and it will boost up your replay.

[JernejL]

but this is supposed to be a multi-player game... have you seen a quake 3 or WoW or any other game (besides worms or C&C games (of which random maps suck) ) with random map generator?

[JSoftware]

but this is supposed to be a multi-player game... have you seen a quake 3 or WoW or any other game (besides worms or C&C games (of which random maps suck) ) with random map generator?

Gangsters
C&C(I think the random maps are quite good )
Alpha Centauri
Can't remember the last one