Village Generator

Devlog

• 1.6.2: shading
  August 21, 2024 by watabou

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  First, the ground is now drawn shaded: sun-facing slopes are highlighted and the opposite ones are darkened. In a sense, this feature functionally duplicates hachures, but unlike hachures... (more)... Continue reading

  
• 1.6.1: palisades in JSON and small visual improvements
  May 30, 2024 by watabou

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  ...I was expecting bug reports related to palisades, but instead I found a whole chunk of functionality missing: those palisades weren't exported to JSON and weren't displayed in City Viewer ... (more... Continue reading

  
• 1.6.0: palisades
  May 23, 2024 by watabou

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  ...The shape of the enclosure depends on the “population density map”. As a result, “sparse” villages tend to be surrounded by smaller fences and vice versa: in "dense" villages, not only hous... Continue reading

  
• 1.5.4: spotlight and improved roads
  May 14, 2024 by watabou

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  Spotlight is a new feature of the generator that allows you to apply a soft radial gradient to a map, making its focus brighter and its periphery darker. The effect is similar to vignetting, but it's... Continue reading

  
• Collection of styles
  November 13, 2023 by watabou

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  #style

  This is my first attempt to organize a collection of downloadable styles for Village Generator . It doesn't look great and I can't make the browser download files instead of opening them, so I'll prob... Continue reading

  
• 1.5.3: new water features and other additions
  October 26, 2023 by watabou

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  My original plan was to make this update focused solely on one of the areas specified before . However, it happened so that by the moment when all the planned changes were implemented, I didn't have f... Continue reading

  
• Plans
  September 29, 2023 by watabou

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  Here is a list of features I'd like to implement in this generator soonish. These are things that I am interested in adding for one or more reasons and I have at least some idea how to do it... (more)... Continue reading

  
• 1.5.2: improved rivers and bridges
  September 16, 2023 by watabou

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  When I implemented rivers in the Village Generator for the first time , I struggled with them a lot. Back then I ended up with something that looked more or less acceptable, but inside it was a total... Continue reading

  
• 1.5.1: ponds and improved farm fields
  September 04, 2023 by watabou

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  This update is a collection of pretty diverse new features. There could be more of them, but I didn't want pile them up. Instead, I'm planning to make another update of this generator later this month... Continue reading

  
• 1.5.0: non-square maps and isolated villages
  June 05, 2023 by watabou

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  Non- square maps are ... the most important addition in this update and it took much time to implement and debug it. Too much time - after all a map of unequal width and height is not such a wild idea... Continue reading

  
• 1.4.0: village square and orchards
  March 25, 2023 by watabou

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  This is how it works: the generator finds a place on a map with high population density - often it's a place on the highway. Then it creates a circle of a reasonable size at that location and distorts... Continue reading

  
• Keyboard shortcuts
  September 11, 2022 by watabou

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  #shortcuts

  Enter - generate a new village Shift+Enter - reroll a current village Tab - open the Tags window C - open the Style settings window E - toggle relief visualization F - toggle f ields H - toggle s h ad... Continue reading
• 1.3.0: new trees and buildings
  September 08, 2022 by watabou

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  Here comes another generator update with almost exclusively visual changes. There are many of them here, so I'll try to be brief listing the notable ones: ...post... Continue reading

  
• 1.2.8: integration with Procgen Mansion
  May 18, 2022 by watabou

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  Right-click any building on a map, choose "Open in PM" in the context menu and this building will be opened in Procgen Mansion... Continue reading

  
• 1.2.7: improved fields and roads
  October 28, 2021 by watabou

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  This is a relatively large update and its largest part is improved fields…... Continue reading

  
• 1.2.5: fields
  May 01, 2021 by watabou

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  The main feature of this update is fields! People started asking for them from the moment when the color visual style (which is currently the default one) was first introduced, so here they are... Mor... Continue reading