Lopsided RNG world

[Dimpy]

How feasible would it be to generate a world that is really long but not very tall (like 2km by 128km)? It's just total area that matters in generation speed, not the longest dimension, right?

 

A world that was skinnier (or had more radiation zones) would encourage a more nomadic behavior because any random spot on the map would be farther away.

[Roland]

Sounds interesting. Make it so that you start in the East and need to go West. Increase the chance to get dysentery to like 90% and call it Oregon Trail.

[SylenThunder]

Sounds interesting. Make it so that you start in the East and need to go West. Increase the chance to get dysentery to like 90% and call it Oregon Trail.

Have to re-skin all the zeds to 8-bit monochrome.

[Gazz]

Have to re-skin all the zeds to 8-bit monochrome.

 

There is already a screen effect for that that can be activated with a buff.

[Damocles]

An alternative that works already (in NitroGen) would be to create a custom map with a long narrow “bend around” island. Water blocking the direct path (thus having a long distance to walk/drive). You could place the large towns on the opposite side from the player spawn to make the journey have a rewarding destination after a long walk.

[warmer]

Sounds interesting. Make it so that you start in the East and need to go West. Increase the chance to get dysentery to like 90% and call it Oregon Trail.

 

I believe it was called the Organ Trail.

 

[Dimpy]

An alternative that works already (in NitroGen) would be to create a custom map with a long narrow “bend around” island. Water blocking the direct path (thus having a long distance to walk/drive). You could place the large towns on the opposite side from the player spawn to make the journey have a rewarding destination after a long walk.

 

By "bend around" you mean doughnut-shaped, right? That would probably work even better. The issue is, if you remove the center part of the island, does it still count towards the generation time?

 

In other words, would a circular stretch of land 2km thick with a circumference of 32 km be as fast to generate as a 8km by 8km world?

[Damocles]

By "bend around" you mean doughnut-shaped, right? That would probably work even better. The issue is, if you remove the center part of the island, does it still count towards the generation time?

 

In other words, would a circular stretch of land 2km thick with a circumference of 32 km be as fast to generate as a 8km by 8km world?

 

For a 32 km "circle" island, you would need like a 11k map.

 

In nitrogen that should not take longer than 8 minutes to generate (place POIs and and roads),

if you provide the hightmap (a circle quickly drawn onto a greyscale hightmap).

 

You can also freely set the size of map there.

[Dimpy]

I would prefer it if the circle had noisy terrain, but the center can be perfectly homogeneous or nonexistent.

[Damocles]

Here, a circular island quickly made in 5 minutes, in NitroGen.

Its a 10000 x 10000 map, so quite a long island. (with a mysterious island in the middle that is almost impossible to reach)

 

There is a very long road circling the island (something like 25km long), so its a nice long trip with the motorcycle. I have also added some mountains to make the map more interesting.

 

[Dimpy]

Looks amazing. I'll try it out sometime.

[Roland]

Is there a tutorial on this? How would I get that map loaded into the game? I’m def interested.

[Damocles]

In the tools section I have an active Thread for NitroGen.

 

https://7daystodie.com/forums/showthread.php?114207-Tool-NITROGEN-a-random-world-generator-for-7DtD

 

This example here is using an imported selfdrawn Hightmap.

(You can generate the map or import your own png image) Then populated with POIs and roads.

 

NitroGen creates a Folder with all the world files, then just needs to be copied to the generatedWorlds folder (like the RWG does it) to start a new Gameworld.

This 10k map here took 3 min 40 sec to generate...