[Mod][Merged] Valleys Mapgen [valleys_mapgen]

[mahmutelmas06]

I can do the same with the lua mapgen, if anyone's interested. Does the broken terrain bother anyone?

What do u do for c make it for main version too please :)

And where is thoose updated versions ? I see that it was updated 5 days ago

[duane]

Is there still cliffs?

There are no sharp edges, though there are some nasty drops. I haven't been able to find a way to put in sharp edges without artifacts showing up, so I'd rather do without.

Maybe something like the cave intersection, but with a square waveform... Although that still doesn't match the look of a rugged mountain face. I haven't seen anything yet that does that.

[Don]

I agree that the lack of sharp edges is better then the floating things. I was wondering if you actually fixed the problem. I am glad that the nerd poles are gone. Keep up the great work!

[duane]

Is there still cliffs?

I can do this.

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They don't show up very often, and only in the heights. No weird artifacts yet though.

[Don]

I was just asking. I didn't expect you to change it. I do like cliff though. They make it more of a challenge.

[philipbenr]

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WARNING: Undeclared global variable "darkage_mapgen" accessed at ...etest/minetest/bin/../mods/valleys_mapgen/mapgen.lua:589

I keep getting fatal freezes and ^^^ this in my debug.txt when I am exploring a world. I don't have darkage enable FYI.

[blert2112]

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WARNING: Undeclared global variable "darkage_mapgen" accessed at ...etest/minetest/bin/../mods/valleys_mapgen/mapgen.lua:589

I keep getting fatal freezes and ^^^ this in my debug.txt when I am exploring a world. I don't have darkage enable FYI.

I get the same global var error. On occasion the game crashes with a "LUA out-of-memory" error. Can't use any other mods that use the VoxelManip reliably? Seems to have a big issue with my Pyramids fork which I converted to VoxelManip, I find very very few pyramids, which is fine, but they are mostly cut in half. Sokomine's mg_villages mod works fine so I may have to find a way to put pyramids into it.

I must say, I really dig this mapgen. I had tried it before but it was crushingly slow. On my new laptop it seems just as fast as v6 (which is what I normally use.. with a crap ton of mods). Frame-rate seems to take a +10 hit during generation though, but it seems to play just fine even when flying around fast. I think I might miss dungeons though, will have to see if I can find a mod to put them back in.

Edit: Which fork of DarkAge is recommended? My fork of DarkAge does not use a LUA mapgen, it uses register_ore instead. I assume my fork will work fine with this mapgen? Still, would like to know which fork of DarkAge you had in mind when you wrote the compatibility part in as I can make my Pyramids fork work in the same way. Also, which noise describes deserts?

Edit again: Oh, how I wish I could use this. :(
The game crashes with a "LUA out-of-memory" error, after about ten of minutes of play, nearly every time. Oh well, I may attempt to compile the c++ version and see how that does, but that is for another day.

[duane]

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WARNING: Undeclared global variable "darkage_mapgen" accessed at ...etest/minetest/bin/../mods/valleys_mapgen/mapgen.lua:589

I keep getting fatal freezes and ^^^ this in my debug.txt when I am exploring a world. I don't have darkage enable FYI.

That darkage error is a red herring. It shows up normally, and it couldn't have anything to do with freezes.

Is there anything else relevant in your debug output?

[duane]

Edit again: Oh, how I wish I could use this. :(
The game crashes with a "LUA out-of-memory" error, after about ten of minutes of play, nearly every time. Oh well, I may attempt to compile the c++ version and see how that does, but that is for another day.

I can't think of anything in vmg (lua) that uses much memory other than the perlin noise maps. It's mostly just tinkering with the datamap the system gives it. You could try setting "vmg_caves = false" in your minetest.conf. That will free up most of the memory the noisemaps use (vmg caves use multiple 3D maps). Of course, you won't have any caves.

[duane]

Edit: Which fork of DarkAge is recommended? My fork of DarkAge does not use a LUA mapgen, it uses register_ore instead. I assume my fork will work fine with this mapgen? Still, would like to know which fork of DarkAge you had in mind when you wrote the compatibility part in as I can make my Pyramids fork work in the same way. Also, which noise describes deserts?

I know next to nothing about DarkAge. However, it's possible that the code we have in there to support it is unnecessary after the 2 Oct commit that puts vmg in front of any other mods. At some point, I need to check it. As far as I know, nothing will be incompatible with the latest github code unless it uses biomes or decorations. If it does, you're out of luck. Vmg (lua) is not likely to support those any time soon.

Deserts are not described by noise directly. Sand is put in based on a sand noise (v15), but that's not connected to the temperature and humidity, as it would be in the default game. Plants are placed based on temperature, humidity, soil, etc.

Valleys C, on the other hand, calculates temperature and humidity, then lets the game select a biome to match, similar to what the default game does. Decorations show up in the biomes they request.

[philipbenr]

I have absolutely no other out of the ordinary debug messages. It just ends with minetest freezing and exiting after about 3 seconds.

[blert2112]

Edit again: Oh, how I wish I could use this. :(
The game crashes with a "LUA out-of-memory" error, after about ten of minutes of play, nearly every time. Oh well, I may attempt to compile the c++ version and see how that does, but that is for another day.

I can't think of anything in vmg (lua) that uses much memory other than the perlin noise maps. It's mostly just tinkering with the datamap the system gives it. You could try setting "vmg_caves = false" in your minetest.conf. That will free up most of the memory the noisemaps use (vmg caves use multiple 3D maps). Of course, you won't have any caves.

When I was converting DarkAge to VoxelManip (before I then converted it again to register_ore sheet type) I found that if you pass the data and area variables around too much it would always crash with the "LUA out-of-memory" error. It would always crash randomly with different memory usage values, as low as 37Mb or as high as a few hundred Mb. Why it happens I don't know. Maybe something to do with the way Lua handles variables passed to functions... Maybe pointers should be passed instead, I'm not fluent enough in Lua to know.

[paramat]

I keep getting fatal freezes and ^^^ this in my debug.txt when I am exploring a world. I don't have darkage enable FYI.

That's a harmless warning due to the code here in v2.2 https://github.com/Gael-de-Sailly/valleys_mapgen/blob/2.2/mapgen.lua#L589
"if darkage_mapgen then -- Compatibility with darkage mod by CraigyDavi. If you see error messages like "WARNING: unknown global variable" at this line, don't worry :)"

[paramat]

Edit again: Oh, how I wish I could use this. :(
The game crashes with a "LUA out-of-memory" error, after about ten of minutes of play, nearly every time.

If you're using LuaJIT try disabling it, it restricts lua memory use to a low limit, because the lua version of this mapgen uses 6 3D noises it uses huge amounts of memory to process those noises (1 3D noise = 80 2D noises).
However you will still need a machine with roughly 2GB free memory to cope.
There are some optimisation methods available now in 0.4.13 to reduce memory use by noise, i need to learn these then i can share some examples of use.

My riverdev lua mapgen uses a similar number of 3D noises so probably has the same problem.

Even core mgv7 only uses 4 3D noises.

[blert2112]

Edit again: Oh, how I wish I could use this. :(
The game crashes with a "LUA out-of-memory" error, after about ten of minutes of play, nearly every time.

If you're using LuaJIT try disabling it, it restricts lua memory use to a low limit, because the lua version of this mapgen uses 6 3D noises it uses huge amounts of memory to process those noises (1 3D noise = 80 2D noises).
However you will still need a machine with roughly 2GB free memory to cope.
There are some optimisation methods available now in 0.4.13 to reduce memory use by noise, i need to learn these then i can share some examples of use.

My riverdev lua mapgen uses a similar number of 3D noises so probably has the same problem.

Even core mgv7 only uses 4 3D noises.

How would I go about disabling LuaJIT? Is there a command line option I can't find or do I need to compile the game without it?
Running a Core I5 2.2GHz Broadwell with 8G of RAM and a GeForce940m with dedicated 4G of RAM. Memory should not be an issue with this game on this laptop.

[Gael de Sailly]

I think I've eliminated the nerd poles spawning in the mountains. Here's two shots of the same spot in the same game, before...

These "nerd poles" don't exist in the Lua version, where there would be overhang cliffs (with a slope > 90°). Possible cause : the C++ code looks for the highest node and don't check the lower ones.

[duane]

These "nerd poles" don't exist in the Lua version, where there would be overhang cliffs (with a slope > 90°). Possible cause : the C++ code looks for the highest node and don't check the lower ones.

I must have been mistaken. That's good news -- no need to fix the lua.

[duane]

Edit again: Oh, how I wish I could use this. :(
The game crashes with a "LUA out-of-memory" error, after about ten of minutes of play, nearly every time. Oh well, I may attempt to compile the c++ version and see how that does, but that is for another day.

I still can't duplicate this. However, this patch to mapgen.lua might help. Give it a try, and if it works, we can put it into the main code. It solved some problems with integral trees. My suspicion is that lua forgets to garbage collect under some circumstance. Every now and then, memory use would just run away. It's not an issue of memory still being referenced or the extra garbage collection wouldn't help. It doesn't happen very often, so the change doesn't affect the speed of chunk generation much.

[paramat]

Compile with:
cmake . -DRUN_IN_PLACE=TRUE -DENABLE_LUAJIT=FALSE
?

[BobbyBonsaimind]

Edit again: Oh, how I wish I could use this. :(
The game crashes with a "LUA out-of-memory" error, after about ten of minutes of play, nearly every time.

If you're using LuaJIT try disabling it, it restricts lua memory use to a low limit, because the lua version of this mapgen uses 6 3D noises it uses huge amounts of memory to process those noises (1 3D noise = 80 2D noises).

I don't think LuaJIT is *directly* to blame here, because my Australopithecus mapgen is using 32 2D and 7 3D noises in its current version (I already had versions with 8 and 9 3D noises running without a problem, I'm only using LuaJIT since the beginning). So this might actually be the system that *really* runs out of memory here, and not a problem with LuaJIT in itself.

[blert2112]

Edit again: Oh, how I wish I could use this. :(
The game crashes with a "LUA out-of-memory" error, after about ten of minutes of play, nearly every time. Oh well, I may attempt to compile the c++ version and see how that does, but that is for another day.

I still can't duplicate this. However, this patch to mapgen.lua might help. Give it a try, and if it works, we can put it into the main code. It solved some problems with integral trees. My suspicion is that lua forgets to garbage collect under some circumstance. Every now and then, memory use would just run away. It's not an issue of memory still being referenced or the extra garbage collection wouldn't help. It doesn't happen very often, so the change doesn't affect the speed of chunk generation much.

I have applied the patch and flew around for a while. No problems yet but no "Manually collecting garbage." message either. I put it into my sub-game (approx. 60 other mods including mg_villages, plantlife-modpack, moretrees, mobs_redo with nearly every mob available... to name the bigger mods), still cannot reproduce it yet but I have only been messing with it for a few minutes. Won't have much time to test in the next few days but I will continue trying. Thanks for helping out with this. Oh, I am now using the latest master instead of the 2.2 download if that makes a difference.

[duane]

There's now an option in Valleys Mapgen on github for simpler caves (vmg_simple_caves=true) which speeds up terrain generation considerably without having to sacrifice cave creation. On my system, chunks take two-thirds the normal time to generate when this is enabled.

[demon_boy]

The addition of volcanoes has been slow progress - have I mentioned my programming is hacky?

I've scrapped my previous giant volcano mountains because I couldn't get them to spawn correctly and they smashed the memory on my machine and crashed minetest frequently. Plus I couldn't get lava into the cone.

My new volcano is an extension of a mountain or sometimes along mountain ridges. They will fill up with lava and sometimes overflow.





There is still a bit of work to do to avoid this:


Sometimes the lava generates outside the volcano surface and you end up with a cataclysmic lava flow and ensuing fire.

TODO:

• Tune code to avoid lava outside the volcano surface
• Reduce generation of trees/plants near 'active' volcanoes. Tree generation happens after volcanoes and sometimes places them inside to fuel a fire!
• Fix the placement of snow so it sits on top of the obsidian for a snow-capped volcano.

I'll upload a new branch to the github repo soon (on the weekend I think) as I'm sure Duane will be able to make some improvements!

[duane]

My new volcano is an extension of a mountain or sometimes along mountain ridges. They will fill up with lava and sometimes overflow.

Very cool.

Sometimes the lava generates outside the volcano surface and you end up with a cataclysmic lava flow and ensuing fire.

I'd like to keep at least some chance of this. Disasters happen, after all.

It might look prettier if the lava stone blends a bit more with the rest of the environment.

[Gael de Sailly]

Ok I'm again active during the short holidays. I'm working on a plants API, to allow other mods to register plants (or any decoration) to be generated on a VMG world.

Important rewrite, switched to a new branch: ordened_plants.

I'm not sure to finish it during the next week.

[Gael de Sailly]

This has been faster that I thought. I think that it's finished, it seems to work, but it needs more tests. You can watch the diff here.

[duane]

This has been faster that I thought. I think that it's finished, it seems to work, but it needs more tests. You can watch the diff here.

Ingenious. This cleans up the code nicely. It seems to be producing a lot more bare patches though. Maybe I'm imagining it, because I can't see any reason in the source why that would be the case.

[demon_boy]

This has been faster that I thought. I think that it's finished, it seems to work, but it needs more tests. You can watch the diff here.

Ingenious. This cleans up the code nicely. It seems to be producing a lot more bare patches though. Maybe I'm imagining it, because I can't see any reason in the source why that would be the case.

I haven't tested yet, but I am hoping to get around to it soon.

More bare space could be used for oak and willow trees. I'm also thinking about mangrove trees for where rivers meet the beach.

[Gael de Sailly]

More bare space could be used for oak and willow trees. I'm also thinking about mangrove trees for where rivers meet the beach.

I don't think there is more bare space. But if you want bare space, you can change the "check" parameter for some plants.
And in fact you don't really need bare space. The plants API allow to have several plants at the same place.

[amadin]

Thanks for this mod.
- How decrease the amount (quantity) of rives?
- In README.md: "First, make sure that you've added the `valleys_mapgen` dependancy in your depends.txt (followed by a question mark if optional)" - so i must to add it in all mods?
- Does where a way to increase speed of valleys_mapgen? Maybe if turn off some options in settings or something else.
- I think the better file settingtypes.txt name will be setting_exaple.txt because i tryed to change values in it at first :)