30-09-2001 10:07									#1
	No Landmarks!! Increase the size of your Attachments

hi guys,
i'm trying to find out how to make the worldbuilder in alpha.txt not to build natural landmarks, cause it's ruing my sea base mod. to summarize: how do i make the worldbuilder not generate anymore landmarks?

	03-10-2001 11:52									#2
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generate a map with the world builder and remove the landmarks with the map editor (there is an option to remove or add single landmarks).
i don't think there is an possibility to use the rules for generating non-landmarked maps.

	04-10-2001 00:38									#3
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Write a program that creates randomized .mp files all by its lonesome.

I've done this, and the only thing I've yet to figure out is landmarks .... so viola, a random map with no landmarks.

Of course, my random routines currently suck, compared to the tried-and-true ones of the game (my freetime comes in spurts, and I've ran out for the forseeable future) ... but I'm sure that if you had a wack at the .mp file format and spent a little of all that spare time you are spending on a mod to program a good set of random routines, you'd come up with random maps you're happy with.

The .mp file format is actually pretty straightforward.

	04-10-2001 12:16									#4
	Increase the size of your Attachments

I'd be interested in taking a shot at a random map generator, my free time is scarse, so any existing work done on the problem would be greatly beneficial, prefferably some sort of bare-bone map loading/saving code in c/c++/java.

I know a bit about generating random maps, water maps would be no problem. Making a true continental world would be a bit beyond my current skills, but the main thing I would like is the ability to generate oceans which arent all at -1999.

	05-10-2001 00:57									#5
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I read somewhere that someone's made a converter for various random map-makers...IE you could take a map from Railroad Tycoon and use it in SMAC. It is a PC utility, and I'm really not sure where I read about it. One of the fan sites for SMAC..just not sure which one. If it works, one could use such a generator to make a library of non-landmarked Smac maps, then randomly choose from that set.

-Smack