Well, politics aside I thought I'd talk about my game engine and some of the new terrain systems I'm working on.
There have been a couple of images and videos on the old YouTube channel with some of the examples, but here's a still for your enjoyment... See the MASSIVE tree remains on the peak it was to place trees (of the correct scale) into a natural pattern I then turned.
I started with the same noise algorithm I'd used for the peak itself, but that tended to give me slices of trees or uncanny looking placements.
Off to CImg I started to play with some noise algorithms and after a while I got an appearance for the groups of trees I liked; at least in 2D.
This being me though I went to bed and got distracted with horses and so only just came back to this very late on a Sunday evening, and the first thing I did was NOT the tree placements at all, no I started with the above set of points and wanted to check my "Area of Control" system.
This basically sets up the influence from each island, as you capture them the idea being that you improve them and they become stronger nodes, more loyal maybe, and that gives you bonus points towards your various activities and influence over neighbours... Whom you might conquer.
The trick however was how to set this up by default, so I decided to play a map up into individuals, and create a sort of area influence and then depending on the range you can travel that will build networks of connections to "who you might influence" or be influenced by.
However, that got quite complex quite quickly and my world still needs to be persisted on the server/back end, soooo.....
I got distracted again and made the initial influence a voronoi diagram pattern.
Sometimes you just have to let your mind wander, this weekend, the little computer time I had, was definitely just letting my mind wander.
I was quite tired after the latest release at work.... And to be honest, I kind of love Jason Voorhees.
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