Code Golf Competition

[Hybrid Dog]

PilzAdam wins for both categories

I am trying to think about the next challenge. Any suggestions?

city map generation (with houses)

[rubenwardy]

PilzAdam wins for both categories

I am trying to think about the next challenge. Any suggestions?

city map generation (with houses)

Good idea, but there needs to be rules.

What do you think of these?

• Flat land generation is allowed.
• Houses can not overlap, or corrupt each other.
• WorldEdit is not allowed.
• Schematic files are counted in the character count.
• Houses must be a 9x9x5 hollow cube with a 7x7x3 space inside. (width, depth, height)
• Roofs must be sloped.
• Houses can be made out of any material.
• Must have a floor.
• Houses must have one door in the middle of one side.
• The door must be accessible at all times.
• Houses need to generate in village hotspots, villages contain a minimum of 10 houses.
• loadstring() or eval() functions are not allowed.

This may be too many rules, suggest which ones to get rid of. Or what to add.

[Hybrid Dog]

Houses must be a 9x9 hollow cube with a 7x7 space inside.

I think worldedit should be allowed but if it's used, the chance is smaller to win the contest.

[Sokomine]

City map generation is not trivial. So far, to my knowledge, only MirceaKitsune, Nore and I followed it through - with very similar approaches. Nores mapgen also allowes for smaller side-roads and is already well integrated into a mapgen. I havn't checked on the latest version of MirceaKitsunes villages.

WorldEdit is not allowed.

WorldEdit would mean doing it manually. Using WorldEdit for loading the savefiles of buildings is definitely ok.

Schematic files are counted in the character count.

Er, for what? Code size? They're not relevant in that regard. They're the data part - like textures and such. Building houses that would fit well into a village or town might be something for a nice building contest though.

Houses must be a 9x9x5 hollow cube with a 7x7x3 space inside. (width, depth, height)
Roofs must be sloped.
Houses can be made out of any material.
Must have a floor.
Houses must have one door in the middle of one side.

Sounds a bit boring. City/village map generators usually aim at spawning *any* building - usually from a WorldEdit or schematics savefile. Thus, Nores mapgen can spawn my village houses as well.

The general approach of a village mapgen (at least Nore and I took this approach) is to create a data structure which holds information about the village: Where are the roads? Where does a building start (and which one), how is it orientated? Other factors are: How many of that type of building are desired per village?

[rubenwardy]

City map generation is not trivial. So far, to my knowledge, only MirceaKitsune, Nore and I followed it through - with very similar approaches. Nores mapgen also allowes for smaller side-roads and is already well integrated into a mapgen. I havn't checked on the latest version of MirceaKitsunes villages.

WorldEdit is not allowed.

WorldEdit would mean doing it manually. Using WorldEdit for loading the savefiles of buildings is definitely ok.

Schematic files are counted in the character count.

Er, for what? Code size? They're not relevant in that regard. They're the data part - like textures and such. Building houses that would fit well into a village or town might be something for a nice building contest though.

Houses must be a 9x9x5 hollow cube with a 7x7x3 space inside. (width, depth, height)
Roofs must be sloped.
Houses can be made out of any material.
Must have a floor.
Houses must have one door in the middle of one side.

Sounds a bit boring. City/village map generators usually aim at spawning *any* building - usually from a WorldEdit or schematics savefile. Thus, Nores mapgen can spawn my village houses as well.

The general approach of a village mapgen (at least Nore and I took this approach) is to create a data structure which holds information about the village: Where are the roads? Where does a building start (and which one), how is it orientated? Other factors are: How many of that type of building are desired per village?

This is a code golf competition. It needs to have tight specifications, otherwise people could say: "here is a single node. It is a house."