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This is a set of utility mods which I made for making my own Lua mapgen.

Please Note:

• They are not designed to follow the conventions of the default mapgen API. In addition significant portions of the mapgen API are not supported by these mods.
• They are primarily designed for ease of use, not performance. However these mods should not add significant performance overheads.
• The APIs that are presented are subject to change.
• These mods should work well together, but interfaces which are incompatible may be released.

mgnm: Noise Manager
This mod provides a combined interface for noise creation, buffer management, composition and indexing.

mgmini: Minifier
This mod allows for all created noises to be scaled, to help view/test large scale noises.


nlnoise: Noisedef Normaliser
This mod modifies a noise definition, such that the resulting noise has a range of +-noise.scale.


-- License: MIT

wow.

Just a heads up, the first github link has a typo, you meant mgnm not mgmn

TheReaperKing wrote:Just a heads up, the first github link has a typo, you meant mgnm not mgmn

Thanks, fixed.

This is a great addition to mapgen, i hope many mods will use it!

Update!

Finally wrote an API reference for mgnm. Please suggest improvements for it.

This sounds super interesting. Do you happen to have any screenshots?

TheReaperKing wrote:This sounds super interesting. Do you happen to have any screenshots?

Here is a comparison for mgmini - Not particuarly good looking, but I had to remove the 3d noise (manually) used in the red hills, due to it being used with a 2d noise. (There is no way to detect this - I need to add a way for the user to give hints).

Also I didn't scale the height the mapgen adds sand - so the amount is inflated.
Other than that though, everything else scales well (including the 3d caves if you look closely).

Wow so crazy!! Map gen stuff always fascinates me :)

I quickly added the annotation system I'm talking about (not yet released), and it improved the output quite a bit:

Large update to mgnm and the test mod.

Now depends on mgbm - new MapGen Buffer Management mod.
https://github.com/Qwertymine/mgbm
OP and API ref is now out of date - will update when I have time.