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Mindwerks / worldengine

World generator using simulation of plates, rain shadow, erosion, etc.
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Produce a sort of "satellite" view of the world #169

Closed ftomassetti closed 8 years ago

ftomassetti commented 8 years ago

On Reddit they suggested us to produce something like this: http://www.satellite-images.com/images/world32k.jpg

esampson commented 8 years ago

That would be very easy to implement. Use the biome map routine, replace the colors with more realistic ones, and draw ice in the oceans (I would find the threshold temperature for polar climate zones and shift it by a small bit. I forget if you need to shift it up or down).

I don't think you are seeing any real shading from elevations directly. I think most of the effect is generated by things such as the wind shadow.

esampson commented 8 years ago

BTW, unless I am missing something it doesn't appear we are using any sort of wind shadow effect at all (although we say in the README.md that we do).

ftomassetti commented 8 years ago

@esampson you are right. I have implemented it a certain point but perhaps it was even in the project before lands... we should implement this and the prerequisite is to simulate winds. We were caught in things like producing the binaries, testing and so on and for a long time we did not work on features, such as #13 and #14

Time to go back and finish that!

ftomassetti commented 8 years ago

This is done