Mystery Elevator!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnIH3BJlrO8

https://redd.it/1lwpkqi
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Any nTop users in here? I just made a tutorial on procedural staircases 😁
https://redd.it/1lwtmm2
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FB reminded me of my first attempt at procgen in Godot last year

https://redd.it/1lx5kzq
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What do you say to people who claim procedural generation is lazy, not your work, or disrespectful to creatives?

Or to people who mix it up with the nebulous category of AI (power-intensive NN models trained on scraped data)?

One classmate tried to tell me that procedural generation was an insult to his time!

https://redd.it/1lxw627
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Dissertation Showcase - Exploring a Large NPC Ecosystem in a Procedurally Generated Voxel Environment in UE5

https://reddit.com/link/1ly4sue/video/ep1yrmpq1hcf1/player

This subreddit really motivated me for the past year to complete my dissertation and have my own procedural generation focused project. I'm happy with how it turned out and wanted to share it with the community.

The project was done solely in C++ using Unreal Engine 5, and besides the purchased 3D assets for the NPCs, everything is generated at runtime.

https://preview.redd.it/a7ncjqltzgcf1.png?width=3439&format=png&auto=webp&s=1b45521e7012d6f76d78b831ecf5b1c3856ce868

https://preview.redd.it/c300mwkuzgcf1.png?width=3439&format=png&auto=webp&s=166c50473f809a9cbccfdb3167ff598ecfb97bd0

# Some performance metrics

Computation Averages for 150 NPCs Over 60 Seconds

Pathfinding Tasks: 1,705
Actions Requested: 1,501
Notifications Sent: 1,086
Vision Sphere Updates: 30,759

https://preview.redd.it/afl9gc1jzgcf1.png?width=2000&format=png&auto=webp&s=f5ba8a463c9264fb1d44d589e6b8459e7da5b133

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ideal method to place rocks/trees etc. on a map with procedural generation?

I currently have a map with diff areas designated for various biomes, problem is when I try to use WFC to place landscape elements like trees/rocks around the map my laptop simply struggles. I even made the mistake of trying to generate individual tiles with WFC in biomes(you can guess how that went). I'm probably going to use noise for the ground layer(is this optimal?) of terrain but I still am unsure about how to generate landscape elements organically. I could of course multi thread it, assuming Godot has that feature - I'm new to this.

bit rough, still in development



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Central | python + gimp
https://redd.it/1lyy8co
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Flying over surface of Mandelbulb fractal (raymaching + particle visualization)

https://redd.it/1lzftpw
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0120
https://redd.it/1lzjx7s
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Proc Gen Resource List

So a little backstory: last year I created a game development community and last month I turned it into a non-profit organization aimed at providing more resources to game developers. Based in the Montreal area, we've grown to just below 500 people on the server in a year. One of our regular events attendees shared this gold mine of a procedural generation resource into our resources channel:

A massive link library to all kinds of papers and talks about procedural generation. I'm sure the info was shared somewhere in this subreddit, but if not then consider this my gift to the community:

https://procgen.space/resources

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Biomorphic Headphone Stands! Fun to make, but a little weird 🤣🎧🤣

https://redd.it/1lzm00y
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What's your biggest problem with procedural generation in game design / development?

Want to invest some time in procedural generation skills, and feels like huge part of it is knowing weaknesses.

https://redd.it/1m0abtj
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Squarified Tree Maps for Layout Generation

Hey hey all, I shared some resources yesterday about procedural generation, and one of them talked about squarified treemaps for floor plan generation. The paper provided a detailed description, but I didn't see any proper algorithms in the paper; just theory.

I was, however, able to track down the paper that was referencing the "Squarified Treemap" algorithm, and in keeping with my theme for sharing more and more resources for the proc gen community, here is the link to that paper! https://vanwijk.win.tue.nl/stm.pdf

https://redd.it/1m0fl7a
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Looking for good sources to learn about PCG for my bachelor's thesis

Hello everyone, I am doing my bachelor's in CS and it's thesis time. I am a noob to PCG, I chose a topic on it because I didn't like that all my profesors hoped on the AI hype when handling topics. So I came up with something random I thought I might do someday...

After procrastinating for 2 semesters and wasting my money and time....I decided to run a prototype procedurally generated terrain based on simplex noise octaves and holy fuck, I am in love with this topic already and wanna learn stuff, but I know nothing. Prototype was succesful but I tweaked things "randomly" for 10h

Please recomend me good articles, papers etc if you have read any, they are the most important as I can do my literature review from them. I am mostly intereted in terrain development, perlin noise etc for survival games but other reads that could be helpful would be nice too. Maybe cellular automata too if it can be somehow applicable, my professors love cellular automata :P

https://redd.it/1m0h4bs
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Nova Patria is a Roman Steampunk Colony Sim

https://redd.it/1m0o5db
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Wrapped Splash Map
https://redd.it/1m1bvse
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Looking for ProcGen Developer

Looking for Developer: Side Project Building a Procedural Dungeon Generator

Hey everyone! I run a TTRPG-focused site (WorldSmith.io) and I’m looking for a dev who’s passionate about procedural generation to help bring a dungeon generator to life as a fun side project.

The goal: Build a browser-based top-down dungeon generator that outputs simple, clean, randomized dungeon maps for fantasy RPGs. We want something visually similar to popular online dungeon tools (watabou, donjon, etc.).

This isn’t a rush job or a big contract. I’m looking for someone who loves procedural generation and might want a meaningful side project. We want to branch into procgen a lot more in the future, so if we vibe well, I'd love to turn it into a long-term thing!

https://redd.it/1m1mcq5
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C++ libraries for terrain generation

Hello,
I'm looking into generating heightmaps for game worlds to be rendered in an engine like Unreal.
I can find plenty of noise libraries but I'm looking for something abit more complex that can produce realistic terrain heightmap features. For example a realistic looking mountain.
Basically a lighter version of Gaea but source/library-only.

Any suggestions?

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