Default/mapgen: Tune biome points for improved disribution #720
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Personally I'd like to see a slightly greater proportion of fertile biomes to wasteland (arctic or desert). But I expect everyone's mileage may vary on this. |
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Glacier is the rarest biome. As far as i know the temperate biomes cover more than a 1/3 of surface area, but visually it doesn't look like it because of the nature of distribution by noise: the extreme biomes tend to form blobs while the temperate biomes form an often thin web around the blobs. Blob shapes give an illusion of covering more area than they actually do. |
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After a similar request from hmmmm i decided to make the hot and frozen biomes a little smaller, this also helps to move them apart slightly. I remembered that without biome blend the noise threshold for mgv6 desert is 0.45, so i have moved the temperature thresholds to +-0.45. It's a big improvement and finally i'm satisfied with this. |
Bring humidity points closer to reduce distortion of voronoi cells Slightly reduce size of hot and frozen biomes Improve location of glacier biomes Remove unnecessary snow nodeboxes from tundra to improve FPS Add missing dirt_with_snow to taiga
Bring humidity points closer to reduce distortion of voronoi cells
Slightly increase spacing between hot and frozen biomes
Improve location of glacier biomes
Remove unnecessary snow nodeboxes from tundra to improve FPS
Add missing dirt_with_snow to taiga
Tested by generating a 'tiny biome' world (7.5 times smaller biomes than default) in mgv7, mapped above. Darkest green trees = rainforest. Ice blue = glacier.
Temperature thresholds for hot and frozen biomes are equal to those in both classic and new mgv6 biome systems.
Areas of desert, savanna and rainforest are more balanced, making desert and rainforest easier to find.
Glacier biomes are more centralised within the frozen biomes, moved away from the temperate biomes.