Random Map Generator
I agree with you on that point and one might see this program as a proof of concept. Agreed, the maps it generates are a bit ugly, but have you played the example I provided? Keep in mind that this is still the alpha version.
Indeed, without the PTI it would have been harder to put this together.
I understand your concerns and I ensure you that I have no intention to flood the workshop.
That sounds awesome!
About the fear of this flooding the workshop: here's an idea...what if it generated slightly mangled P2Cs, so you couldn't just start generating them and publishing them? I wonder if it would compile without the exit door, or the primary observation room, for example.
GLaDOS: perfect, i've finally finished self-coding the best automated test-building algorithm yet.
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LP is right to be afrade of this, but I still think it is kickass
I really wanted to write a program like this however I know of the limitations that would be present, like the things you mentioned before, and I certainly did not want to tackle those problems.
Any particular reason you chose Java (besides that then anyone could use it).. for performance sake, I love C#
Who knows, the complete randomness of it might create some interesting concepts!
I doubt it would be good just to randomize and play though.
About the fear of this flooding the workshop: here's an idea...what if it generated slightly mangled P2Cs, so you couldn't just start generating them and publishing them? I wonder if it would compile without the exit door, or the primary observation room, for example.
I don't quite see the point there. If it generates broken maps, then you cannot play them.
I really wanted to write a program like this however I know of the limitations that would be present, like the things you mentioned before, and I certainly did not want to tackle those problems.
Any particular reason you chose Java (besides that then anyone could use it).. for performance sake, I love C#
I chose Java, because I am familiar with it and it runs on every machine. Performance is also quite good. And there is no high-end graphics involved, because it just outputs a p2c file.
I doubt it would be good just to randomize and play though.
It is not only random, but it also tries to maximize a function measuring how complicated solving the map is. What it is really good at is the following: You give it map snippets and it combines them into very complicated puzzles. And I think that it is better at this particular job than a human mapper. But it does cannot invent new snippets. Only if the snippets get really small, this would not matter any more.
I will work on a singleplayer map version which does not output a p2c, but a description file how to build the puzzle. A skilled mapper can then implement it. It is harder to do the singleplayer version, because it would most likely either involve cubes or sophisticated flinging and neither is implemented yet.
About the fear of this flooding the workshop: here's an idea...what if it generated slightly mangled P2Cs, so you couldn't just start generating them and publishing them? I wonder if it would compile without the exit door, or the primary observation room, for example.
I don't quite see the point there. If it generates broken maps, then you cannot play them.
Not fully broken, but with something preventing instant publishing. For example, a map will compile and run but not publish if the global_pti_ents are gone, or if something conflicts with them.
About the fear of this flooding the workshop: here's an idea...what if it generated slightly mangled P2Cs, so you couldn't just start generating them and publishing them? I wonder if it would compile without the exit door, or the primary observation room, for example.
I don't quite see the point there. If it generates broken maps, then you cannot play them.
Not fully broken, but with something preventing instant publishing. For example, a map will compile and run but not publish if the global_pti_ents are gone, or if something conflicts with them.
I did not know that. This should be quite easy then.
Unfortunately I don't know of a way to break those in the P2C file, unless someone had a mod installed that could add an extra undeletable unplaceable item to conflict with it. I'll see if I can find a way.
Recently I continued working on this and I created a single player map. The logic is computer generated and I did the mapping by hand. Since I am not a very good mapper, the map is kind of ugly and could have flaws (I hope not), but this is mostly a proof of concept. Nevertheless, I hope you enjoy it. I would say it is quite hard:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =156399981