I was working with the level generator recently (well, really not that much work, just spent time drawing the map, and did one round of generating, and then made a gmap)
Here are problems I ran into. If you have any solutions, tips, etc., I'll very much appreciate it.
(Refer to attached pic to see what descriptions refer to)
-North East Forest: Trees were drawn to border the water. Intention was to block off NorthEast corner of the island, but there's now coastal paths along the coast. Same problem seen on forest at south end of map. (Trees were not mapped as close to water as possible)
-Western Desert: Sand tiles were drawn to border mountains to the west. Result is grass divides mountains from sand. Also, it was drawn so that the water to the north and south would be bordered by sand or, rather, the cliffs should be bordered by sand. No grass should be present.
-Western Mountain: Again, drawn bordering water. They don’t seem as close to water as possible. Also, I wanted to make the mountains be “desert” or “sand” tiled mountains.
-South East River: Drawn to be a river continuing from the lake to the coast. Result is it breaks apart several times.
Reason: River was drawn too thin.
Solution: Draw thicker river.
I'm going to play more with the level generator later, but untill then… if anyone has any ideas/suggestions, please feel free to share.
You shouldnt expect from the level generator to generate perfect levels. Its used to roughly “sketch” the basic shape of a map, so it can be worked on later.
The level generator works on algorithms and places tiles and such in a repeating pattern, always trying to make them never overlap.
As Crowley said, its for a basic outline. yusolazy!
: I'll do it by hand if it's the only way. But if the generator can do some of the stuff for me, why not let it?
Basically, I wanna get the best I can out of the generator, and learn to master it.
I know, it's a pretty valuable life-skill to learn to use Graal Online's Level Generator.
Where can i get level generator? ive tried “logging into graal online and clicking updates” but then i remembered that V5 got rid of the update page, then i remembered that i quit that rubbish lol.
I know this is an old topic now but level generator is being a bitch with me, only the example, levelgen.png picture works, if i make a new one, or edit levelgen a tiny bit , i get nothing help?
You should make sure the colors are still the same after saving the picture, it can be a real bitch if they are not. Use paint.net, giffy or any better program to save your image as .gif OR .png, both will work, and make sure you read the documentation.