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World Generator
Topic Started: Jul 22 2010, 05:22 PM (393 Views)
Pando
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http://donjon.bin.sh/world/

I found the website while finishing Dynamic Projects (only the last 2 pages of the Habitable Zone left). It's really powerful, you can do things such as set the ice and water percentage. Also, you can make the image up to 2500x2000 pixels, and the world can be square, spherical, even spinning. Really useful if you want to make a world, just remember to save the seed number.
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Iowanic
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Kinda neat. It even has a star-system generator feature.
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I'm going back to basics.

Ah, I've seen this thing before. It's amazing.
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It also has other generators in the website, like a sci-fi name generator.
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can you upload it to a topic?
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You have to save the images yourself.

Anyway I recommend to upload it somewhere else, rather than here.
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The maps are a bit too fractal for my liking. Perhaps they're good for inspiration, but they really don't show real processes like tectonics, etc.

As for the system generator it's quite impressive, you may want to look into the program StarGen (it's named something like that) that works in planetary attributes and orbits based on scientific data and simulations.
A hard mathematical figure provides a sort of enlightenment to one's understanding of an idea that is never matched by mere guesswork.
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T.Neo
Jul 23 2010, 06:57 PM
The maps are a bit too fractal for my liking. Perhaps they're good for inspiration, but they really don't show real processes like tectonics, etc.

As for the system generator it's quite impressive, you may want to look into the program StarGen (it's named something like that) that works in planetary attributes and orbits based on scientific data and simulations.
Agreed, and it also doesn't show realistic ice coverage in relation to land coverage.

It could make a good starting point but you'd probably be best setting ice to 0 an doing that bit yourself and re-drawing everything to make it look less fractal and explain the plate tectonics.
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