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Old 08-06-2014, 04:01 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Torankusu
was pretty sure the default level editor would draw terrain maps just fine.
It does, but your only option is to print the map at a fraction of the size, and it does not include NPCs.

Quote:
Originally Posted by scriptless
Like I said I am not familiar with terrain like Draenin is. And maybe someone else could help answer that question?
Sadly, there's only so much I can tell you about gmaps in relation to things like .graal levels and so forth, and I can't even begin to fathom how to replicate them, other than using pure black magic.

But, just to entertain the notion, here's a dump of information from a terrain gmap.

PHP Code:
GRMAP001
WIDTH 20
HEIGHT 20
GENERATED testmap_t
-20.nw
GENSEED 833147934
GENBASE 
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GENEVENBORDERS true
GENHEIGHT 50
GENCHAOS 0.55
LEVHEIGHT 3.774298
LEVCHAOS 0.55
MAPIMG testmap
.png
MINIMAPIMG 

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What I can tell you is that each height in the height map represents a vertex which is basically the corner of each level in the gmap. There is also a grid of about 9 x 9 smaller vertices on each level (including the level corners) which can be raised or lowered to affect the slope of the lines between each vertex.

It is very likely that these smaller heights are determined by the massive number of seeds down at the bottom of the list through pseudorandom number generation, but the geometry itself and the subsequent 'stretching' of tile textures when you move these vertices up and down is likely a product of either tessellation or fractal equations. Or both. I really have no clue.

If you're interested in how they work, here's a little video of me making a volcano.

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