Post by watabou in Here's a couple of Ideas

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Yes, the countryside is quite boring. That's because it's a city generator, not a general map generator which places a city in the center :) . So anything that concerns things inside the city has a higher priority for me than anything outside... And there are just too many things inside that need to be improved/fixed/implemented.

Also, as much as I want to generate good looking maps, drawing (not generating) is a bottleneck right now - it takes like 100ms to generate a large city and 1000ms to draw it (approximately). Obviously adding gradients would make things worse performance-wise. I hope to fix it somehow, but for now...

mntronslien7 years ago(+2)

Is it really a detrimental botteneck tho? As an end user I would be more interested in a good end result rather than performance (if i where to choose). It's not like I need to generate 100's of maps in quick succession.

watabou7 years ago

One second per map is bad not because you'll have to spend 100 seconds to generate 100 maps, but because it feels like unresponsiveness. Probably I'll try to produce nicer maps making aerial snapshots of 3d models, they work better than I expected.

mntronslien7 years ago

That is a pretty sick move to make it 3d :P
You have a good point about the unresponsiveness, but stating that in clear text to the user would be a quick fix for that tho. I mean, nobody likes to wait, but if you feel you know why you are waiting, most people are a lot more OK with it. Might be moot if the 3d method is that much better at drawing.

Hey, totally unrelated to this, but do you plan on adding rivers? Either through the cities or around the outskirts? With most cities in the real world springing up around them, I would think it a pretty good addition to this excellent generator.

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