So I am trying to figure out the best way for me to go about procedurally generating 2d top down world (like RimWorld) for a game I am working on. From everything I have read it seems like I would want to use noise algorithms for generating the world however the kind of math that seems to be required for this type of procedurally generation is not a strength so I am trying to find libraries that will handle most of the heavy lift as far as the math / algorithms go however the results I have been able to generate so far have been unimpressive.
Right now I am just trying to be able to generate the main world land not worrying about small things / resources like tress, flowers, rocks, ore, etc right now. Want I am looking to be able to do right now is just:
- Generate a map of X by X size that is surrounded by a certain impassable tile (deep ocean, unbreakable rocks, etc.)
- Be able to generate a number of different biomes that have logical sense (have a beach biome only next to the ocean, have an oasis biome only within a desert biome, etc.)
- Make the terrain look somewhat irregular so that each map generation does not look too similar and the biome shapes should be quite varied
I have been trying to use a Unity implementation of this library : https://github.com/Auburns/FastNoise_CSharp : and I am guess I am using it wrong or something as the maps I generally filled of a bunch of oval shapes within ovals shapes. The few tutorials I could find on the topic either 1. Go into building the noise generating algorithm itself which while at a basic level I could probably do but I would be completely screwed if I had to extend that algorithm to what it would probably need to be for my end goal or 2. Talks about stuff at such with no code examples or anything and at such a high level I have not idea what they are talking about. I have no issue with using the data that is generated from the algorithms to be used for generating the world, I just know that I am not the person to actually generate those algorithms themselves.
Are there any good tutorials that have decent code examples about working with 3rd party algorithm libraries (C# would be ideal since that is the language I use with Unity) to generate maps of this nature?
