I just tested my world generator. New, this thing was supposed to create a game world on-the-fly. I was anticipating huge logical errors that would take hours to fix.<\/p>\n
Instead, it takes loads of time. Heaps, even. So… I’m going with a backup plan.<\/p>\n
Here’s what I’ve got: I’ll create a bunch of premade world areas. I’ll store them as PNGs, and load them as such. This will allow me to rotate my big world sections in 90 degree increments, and<\/em> place them randomly. These chunks won’t be <\/em>too big, just big enough where I can have a wide hallway around them (To ease designing them) but not so big that they can’t be loaded quickly. This will hopefully run at a reasonable speed. At the very least it’ll be quicker than that nightmare world I made previously.<\/p>\n Entities will still spawn psuedo-randomly, but they will choose between preset spawn points.<\/p>\n It’s a setback, but I won’t let it stop me!<\/p>\n (I’m glad I decided to get this out of the way earlier than last time!)<\/p>\n —Mr.Dude<\/p>","time":"December 12th, 2009 10:22 pm","title":"World Generator: Time for Plan B"}