Procedural Landmass Generation

Hi everyone - welcome to this series on procedurally generating landmasses.
Hope you enjoy!





Episode one: Introduction

Full playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFt_AvWsXl0eBW2EiBtl_sxmDtSgZBxB3

 

In this second episode we create a grid of perlin noise values and render them to the screen as a texture.

 

Episode three is about adding parameters to control the noise.

 

Thanks

 

My pleasure, FlyTroll.
Episode 04 is now out:

 

Episode 05 covers the generation of 3D mesh.

 

Thank you so much Sebastian, looking forward to the next installment!

-K2

 

Here's the next one, K2mia

 

Episode 07 starts looking at endless terrain generation:

 

Episode 08 continues the endless terrain generator and adds threading.

 

Loving this series, thanks Sebastian!

 

Great series, but is it possible to replace color with materials like grass and stone?

 

I'll be working towards adding this in the future, Hoarmurath. Glad you're enjoying, muzboz!

Episode 09 is now out, covering LOD mesh switching based on distance from viewer.

 

Will you comment each line of code in order to fully explain it? At least for the first video in the YouTube series?

 

Episode 10:

I'll see about adding comments to the code sometime in the future, lovelyUnity.

 

Hi Sebastian,

Great tutorial!

One small thing, I can't seem to find the moment when you added the quad. Do you have to do something with it or just has to be created and the code takes care of it?

 

Hi PixelShare, it's probably a bit late to be answering this, but you need to create it and assign it to the textureRender variable MapDisplay class in the inspector.

Episode 11 is out:

 

Episode 12 is out. It focuses on fixing a lighting issue along the edges of the mesh chunks.

 

Bookmarked. Looks like a nice tutorial. KUTGW!

 

This is a great resource for a lot of devs! Thank you!

Also, will you ever do a tutorial on populating the map with stuff like trees, rocks, etc? I'm sorry if you've mentioned this in any of the videos. I haven't watched all of them yet.

 

Amazing series.

I have started playing about with randomly adding items (trees etc) but have not yet worked out what to place where (don't want to place trees in the water).

Looking forward to seeing how these should be done properly.

Keep up the great work SebastianLague.

 

Thanks everyone, glad you're enjoying. I released episode 15 yesterday:

 

One of the best series I have ever watched. I have learned so much from your tutorials. I appreciate your hard work! Keep it up! Thank you!!!

 

Hi Sebastian,
Bit late but I'm wondering what the purpose of procedural land mass generators are? I know they create infinite worlds through but are the worlds interactive at all? I was planning on following the tutorial and adding little things to the world's like mini games or animals that the player can interact with. Is this possible with the tutorial? So I use it to make the worlds like in the images you posted and add the other things myself?

Is that possible?

Thanks a lot!
Harsh

 

So essentially my question is asking if you can edit the randomly generated worlds in that each world has trees, and environment or different types of terrain (snow/forest). Nothing to complex, just something different.

Kind regards,
Harsh

 

Has this project Died off would love for more to come out.

 

Thanks !!




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For those who are still watching this thread and saw he stopped posting at episode 15, he actually has six additional episodes on his channel! Check them out

 

Amazing shots! thanks mate!

 

Tutorial was good...!

 

Unity says that there is an error about this line, but it matches what you have in your editor.

for (int x = 0, x < mapWidth; x++)

error : Assets\Scripts\Noise.cs(15,31): error CS1525: Invalid expression term '<'

I can tell that it is saying that there is something wrong with the <, but im unsure as to what is wrong. Any Guesses?

 

for (int x = 0, x < mapWidth; x++)

you put a comma at int x = 0 instead of a semicolon bro