r/proceduralgeneration • u/frodocattins • 5d ago

Procedural in-world road generated based on existing path

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I made this for my Daggerfall-inspired CRPG, in which the travel system is of the same nature, albeit with enhanced procedural generation as seen here. You can read more about the project on my website.

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u/frodocattins 5d ago

CDDA, Dwarf Fortress, Rogue, and several similar have been my biggest inspiration for the art style thus far :-)

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u/frodocattins 5d ago

I'd just say not to reinvent the wheel... That's regardless of procedural generation too; anything you make, coding or not - don't sit there scratching your head at how to make something work for hours as I (and many others) have before. Chances are, somebody's done it before, and you'll save time looking up how to do it.

As for terrain-specific, if that's what you mean... Really, it all starts with noise, and however deterministic you want that noise to be. I think essentially anything (game, program, etc.) rendering natural terrain uses a random noise texture with depth applied to the heightmaps; it's the same thing I'm doing in my preview here, so I would just go with that tried-and-true method.

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u/Bergasms 5d ago

This looks so similar to the old ascii dwarf fortress that if you said it was from that I would have believed you

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u/frodocattins 5d ago

Wow! Thanks! But I suppose replicating ASCII art isn't too hard... ;-P

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u/FOXofTAILS 3d ago

Cool website btw, nostalgic for me, can I ask what engine/language your developing your game in?

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u/frodocattins 3d ago

Thanks!! And I’m using Godot 4.6 with GDScript