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Efficient Terrain Generation

Amoria Game Jam 14
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I was thinking about how the terrain generation was taking a long time, and I had an idea! The old implementation used a Ɵ(n²). But I had an idea for one with a Ɵ(nlog(n)) implementation. Basically, it performs BFT (Breadth-first-traversal) of the map during generation. It starts with a queue with the coordinates of all of the positions in the map, then every time it changes a tile, it enqueues it and it’s neighbors back into the queue, that way, it only processes tiles that have a non-zero chance of changing in subsequent passes. It can still run in O(n²) buut, the average is much better. In fact, it runs almost twice as fast as the origin implementation (0.1s vs 0.06s).

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  • amoria.zip 1.1 MB
    Jan 26, 2024
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