Medieval Fantasy City Generator

Devlog

• Experiments
  October 28, 2024 by watabou

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  As promised , in this post I'm going to share some results of my experiments with improving (altering?) the look of the city maps. Please note the word "experiments": none of these features are presen... Continue reading

  
• 0.11.4: forests
  October 18, 2024 by watabou

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  When MFCG was first released and these cities were barely more than stylized Voronoi diagrams, one of the first requested features was the ability to add surrounding forests. All this time people kept... Continue reading

  
• 0.11.2: small improvements and bug fixes
  August 12, 2024 by watabou

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  Here is the first of two small updates announced in the previous post . It consists of numerous tweaks and fixes, most (but not all) of them related to rivers and coastlines... (more)... Continue reading

  
• 0.11.1: improved map labels
  April 15, 2024 by watabou

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  The new algorithm is a widely used one (unfortunately, I don't know its name) and it's much more reliable. It's based on the idea of straight skeleton and essentially it is about... (more)... Continue reading

  
• 0.11.0: roof details and district view
  April 08, 2024 by watabou

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  ...A new Roofs drop-down menu has been added to the Buildings tab of the Style window with three options: Plain , Hip and Gable . The Hip and Gable options make the generation a little slower, but on... Continue reading

  
• 0.10.2: alleys view
  March 16, 2024 by watabou

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  ...Technically, it was easy, but there were nuances which needed to be taken care of. As a result, alleys don't look exactly like major roads and the way they are drawn may change in the future. By de... Continue reading

  
• 0.10.1
  February 21, 2024 by watabou

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  This update doesn't add any new features compared to 0.10.0-alpha , but it fixes a good part of the issues that prevented me from releasing this alpha normally... (more)... Continue reading

  
• 0.10.0-alpha
  August 18, 2023 by watabou

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  City Generator 0.10.0- alpha is (reluctantly) released. Please note the word "alpha". It means that this version is just a preview and it doesn't replace the current stable version 0.9.2 . The alpha i... Continue reading

  
• Keyboard shortcuts and mouse actions
  February 25, 2023 by watabou

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  Keyboard shortcuts: Enter - generate a new city Tab / G - toggle G enerate window T - toggle T own window S - toggle S tyle window O - open the O utline tab of the Style window C - open C olor scheme... Continue reading
• 0.9.2: assorted new features and improvements
  February 24, 2023 by watabou

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  ...Same as with the dungeon generator, I needed to fix the "export=" feature here and the rest of the changes are just random items from my todo list... (more)... Continue reading

  
• 0.9.1: trees and other visual changes
  February 09, 2022 by watabou

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  As the title of the post suggests, this update introduces a number of new visual features, most notably 🌳🌳🌳. Some of these features are supposed to make generated maps look nicer, others are... Continue reading

  
• 0.9.0: new alleys and buildings
  January 11, 2022 by watabou

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  This update was supposed to be small and mostly focused on fixing a few bugs. Instead, it turned out to be big enough to increase the middle number of the version from 8 to 9. Here is what's new there... Continue reading

  
• 0.8.3: assorted improvements
  April 15, 2021 by watabou

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  Today's update of the web generator is a mix of assorted improvements and bug fixes... More details here: link ... Continue reading

  
• 0.8.2: basic integration with Armoria
  March 03, 2021 by watabou

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  I think this is the smallest MFCG update ever. Its only new feature is basic integration with Azgaar's heraldry generator Armoria ... More details here: link ... Continue reading

  
• 0.8.1: major UI changes
  February 04, 2021 by watabou

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  MFCG has been updated with a new user interface. I talked about "ideas" of this new UI in the previous post ... More details here: link ... Continue reading

  
• 0.8.0: new buildings, improved UI
  September 17, 2020 by watabou

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  A new algorithm for buildings/lots creation is introduced, which is the reason to increase the second part of the version number... More details here: link ... Continue reading

  
• 0.7.6: Landmarks
  June 09, 2020 by watabou

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  Details are here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/38048182... Continue reading

  
• City Viewer 1.0.1: gable roofs and .obj export
  February 15, 2020 by watabou

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  Some words on topic: link ... Continue reading

  
• City Viewer aka Toy Town 2
  February 06, 2020 by watabou

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  #release

  City Viewer is released! City Viewer is a separate application which can build and display a 3D model of a city generated in MFCG. In contrast with its spiritual predecessor Toy Town , it doesn't do p... Continue reading

  
• 0.7.3: Bug fixes, GeoJSON export
  December 01, 2019 by watabou

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  #update

  The main point of this update is to fix an ugly bug which occasionally caused a pretty serious computer freeze. I can't be 100% sure that exactly that bug is fixed, but I've found (and fixed) a couple... Continue reading

  
• 0.7.2: Lots of (mostly) small (mostly) visual changes
  September 25, 2019 by watabou

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  #update

  This update is about making the generator look better. The changelog is quite long, so here I am going to list only the most important changes. Extended palettes Palettes are extended from 4 colours t... Continue reading

  
• 0.7.1: Editable district names
  July 22, 2019 by watabou

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  #update

  This update is very small. Probably the only noticeable new feature is an ability to edit district names - just click one and enter a new value. It looks a bit odd when curvilinear labels are enabled,... Continue reading

  
• 0.7.0: Districts
  June 11, 2019 by watabou

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  More refactoring The second figure of the version number has increased again (from 6 to 7) and this means I consider this update as a major one. The reason is not a new "districts" feature, but seriou... Continue reading

  
• 0.6.0: Custom colors, scale bar, elevation
  February 09, 2019 by watabou

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  Major refactoring This is not something users normally should care about, but it's really important for future development and I've spent a lot of time on it, so I mention it here as a number one item... Continue reading

  
• 0.5.5: Farm fields, rotation tool and city names
  December 12, 2018 by watabou

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  Farm fields To fill the emptiness of the space outside city walls, a random number of farm fields is now spawned. You can disable them in the Layout submenu. If you think they are drawn incorrectly, t... Continue reading

  
• 0.5.4: Integration with Azgarr's Fantasy Map Generator
  September 01, 2018 by watabou

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  The main feature of this update is integration with Azgarr's awesome Fantasy Map Generator . This is how it works: you can click any settlement on a map in FMG (and then a tiny button with a map icon... Continue reading

  
• 0.5.3: Neighbourhoods, alleys and buildings
  May 15, 2018 by watabou

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  #update

  Neighbourhoods Neighbourhoods are groups of adjacent wards of the same type. The idea is to reduce amount of labels on a map: if there is a cluster of 3 "craftsmen" wards, for example, labelling each... Continue reading

  
• Experimenting
  April 20, 2018 by watabou

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  Here I'd like to share the results of my recent experiments with a more traditional way of settlement generation. In contrast with MFCG's "block-centric" approach the traditional one is "road-centric"... Continue reading

  
• 0.5.2: Warp tool
  February 01, 2018 by watabou

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  I was going to make this update a little later and it was meant to be about different stuff, but a couple of weeks ago I posted on Twitter a video of “mesh distortion tool” , which caused some une... Continue reading

  
• Future plans for MFCG
  January 31, 2018 by watabou

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  As you probably know, the first versions of this generator were a small exercise in procedural generation without much purpose (here is my first post about it and the earliest screenshots). Over time... Continue reading

  
• 0.5.1 and Merry Christmas! 🎄🎄🎄
  December 23, 2017 by watabou

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  I wanted to release something before the Holidays, but didn't have enough time to implement anything epic. So there is nothing epic in this update, just small improvements :) Labels . Checking this "s... Continue reading

  
• Toy Town
  November 11, 2017 by watabou

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  Toy Town is a 3d-visualizer for MFCG. It is a prototype of something that one day may become a separate native application or a part of the generator itself, or both... Continue reading

  
• 0.5.0: Rivers and basic house shapes
  October 06, 2017 by watabou

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  A month and a half have passed since the last release - I know it's long. There were several reasons for that. First of all right after releasing 0.4.3 I took a bit of rest :). Then I played with 3d s... Continue reading

  
• Some progress on 3D view
  September 14, 2017 by watabou

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• 0.4.3: Export
  August 23, 2017 by watabou

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  Export to PNG You can now save a map as a hi-res PNG file. In most cases its resolution will be higher than you can get by taking a screenshot unless you are using one of those 4k/5k monitors. The exp... Continue reading

  
• 0.4.2: Shanty towns and more options
  August 09, 2017 by watabou

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  Another small update. List of changes: Shanty towns. In the " Options->Layout" menu you can check " Shanty towns " (unchecked by default) and get a lot of extramural wards. Probably not all of them sh... Continue reading

  
• Source code
  August 03, 2017 by watabou

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  For those who interested, here is the source code of the generator: link ... Continue reading
• 0.4.1: Options
  July 31, 2017 by watabou

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  List of changes: Options added Yes, it's quite a short one. You can now define what features you need in your city - citadel, walls, plaza, coast. Also you can change some cosmetic parameters, namely... Continue reading

  
• 0.4.0: Coastal cities
  July 13, 2017 by watabou

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  List of changes: Cities/towns on a (sea/lake) coast Nicer map labels (Merriweather TrueType font with outlining) Slightly modified UI which auto-hides after a short timeout Some old bugs and glitches... Continue reading

  
• 0.3.0: Wall-less layouts, city outskirts, smooth roads
  June 17, 2017 by watabou

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  List of changes: Central plaza, citadel and city walls are now optional. You can't switch them on and off yet, these parameters are chosen randomly. Later I will add a proper UI (checkboxes) for them... Continue reading

  
• 0.2.2: Temples, wards overview
  June 01, 2017 by watabou

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  I keep working on adding water bodies and shantytowns or rather an infrastructure for them. Meanwhile here is an update with some small features and bug fixes: Main temples (cathedrals). These are big... Continue reading

  
• Some answers and comments
  May 25, 2017 by watabou

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  Yesterday something has happened and suddenly the link to this generator got shared and retweeted all over the internet (twitter and reddit mostly but still)! The page was visited more than 100k time... Continue reading

  
• Tiny fixes and preview of hatching
  May 22, 2017 by watabou

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  This update includes 2 tiny fixes: Zooming with the mouse wheel is disabled, because I've got many reports saying it causes a crash (works fine for me though). I think it's something about the way how... Continue reading

  
• The First Post
  May 19, 2017 by watabou

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  I was not going to start blogging but since itch.io now has this nice devlog feature it would a waste not to use it. At least I can post lists of changes here, but if you guys have any questions/sugge... Continue reading