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Re: City Generator

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Post by ruytlm »

EcqyLUX5i wrote: post #7

If you like this, you need to check out Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator: https://azgaar.github.io/Fantasy-Map-Generator/ It generates a complete, customizable fantasy map with towns and factions. It also integrates this city generator.

Big fan of Azgaar's - used it to build the world for my campaign. If anyone else who used it had issues a while back with an update (around 1.6) where biomes started showing over water, the solution is to clip water in the Styles tab for Biomes (per https://www.reddit.com/r/FantasyMapGenerator/comments/pygnkn... ).

Strong recommend, though takes some learning.

Re: City Generator

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Post by jamespwilliams »

_Microft wrote: post #2

Here's a pointer: once you have entered "warp" mode from the context menu, options in the "Menu" menu change and you can choose in which way you want to modify the map.

Also scroll on the mousewheel to increase/decrease the radius of points to warp.

And also check out the Style menu! I like some of the alternative colour schemes.

The level of detail in this is impressive.

Re: City Generator

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Post by pimlottc »

This is really cool, but the mobile UX is confusing. There’s no UI, just the generated map. I tried reloading for a new city but that doesn’t work because the URL is updated to include the generation parameters (which is not obvious on mobile).

Using iOS 15 mobile Safari on iPhone Mini 12

EDIT: now seeing a menu button that wasn’t there before, that helps

Re: City Generator

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Post by octodog »

pimlottc wrote: post #25

This is really cool, but the mobile UX is confusing. There’s no UI, just the generated map. I tried reloading for a new city but that doesn’t work because the URL is updated to include the generation parameters (which is not obvious on mobile). Using iOS 15 mobile Safari on iPhone Mini 12 EDIT: now seeing a menu button that wasn’t there before, that helps

You may need to tap for the UI to show.

Re: City Generator

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Post by [deleted] »

octodog wrote: post #26
pimlottc wrote: post #25

This is really cool, but the mobile UX is confusing. There’s no UI, just the generated map. I tried reloading for a new city but that doesn’t work because the URL is updated to include the generation parameters (which is not obvious on mobile). Using iOS 15 mobile Safari on iPhone Mini 12 EDIT: now seeing a menu button that wasn’t there before, that helps

You may need to tap for the UI to show.

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Re: City Generator

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Post by drusepth »

Other cool generators from other creators also (in addition to those already posted, copied from [1]):

- Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator: https://azgaar.github.io/Fantasy-Map-Generator/

- Oskar Stalberg's City Generator: https://www.oskarstalberg.com/game/CityGenerator/

- donjon's Fantasy World Generator: https://donjon.bin.sh/fantasy/world/

- Myth Weavers Dungeon Generator: https://www.myth-weavers.com/generate_dungeon.php

[1] https://www.fiction.tools/#worldbuilding-map-generators

Re: City Generator

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Post by vietjtnguyen »

For anyone looking for more depth for their TTRPG games I highly suggest exploring https://eigengrausgenerator.com/. It will lazily generate beautiful, varied details on a town, it's locations, it's buildings, it's denizens, their relations, provide story hooks, and more. Like a good game master it gives just enough surface detail to maintain the immersion, but will generate more detail as you (or your players) interact with whatever catches your (their) fancy.

Re: City Generator

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Post by BMorearty »

samwillis wrote: post #4

Love these sort of things. It’s been on HN a few time before but Townscaper by @OskaSta on twitter is also brilliant. He’s worth following as he documents the development of the projects he’s working on, currently a new island generator. Really interesting intersection of algorithms and art. Often shares other peoples work to thats super interesting, I have a feeling he may have retweeted something about this city ge…

I discovered Townscaper a couple weeks ago. It’s relaxing to play with and I have been enjoying building a reproduction of Mont-Saint-Michel...until yesterday when I ran into a limitation in the iPad version. :( According to Oskar’s reply, I can get either the height I need or the width I need, but not both. https://twitter.com/moreartyart/status/1493073923251994628?s...
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