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Regarding editing

Personally, I'm not interested in editing - I’m interested in procedural generation. If the output of my generator requires too much manual editing, I'd rather not publish it than spend time on tools for making those adjustments. However, if there's an easy way to implement some editing capabilities in a generator, I do it. I don't see how this could be done here, but maybe I'll figure something out later.

Regarding generation

There are several reasons why these layouts often make only a “limited amount of sense”. One of the main ones is that I’m not making an app for planning real houses, it’s not CAD. This generator is designed to create maps of "house-like dungeons”. Some features unconventional for regular houses are added specifically to make these plans suitable for in-game exploration, loops for example. So too many non-rectangular rooms are not a problem imo. Access to the living room only through the kitchen is a problem, but not a huge one. The lack of support for circular plans IS a problem. Ideally, there should be a slider for setting the desired level of “normality” and maybe there will be one someday.

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Yeah I totally getcha. I love proc-gen too and I absolutely understand wanting a better generator than it needing editing tools.

Ditto on your need for it as a dungeon generator. It just happens that this is also the only somewhat reliable totally normal house generator.

Either way, my comments are just that, wishes and dreams that you're free to disregard because they don't fit your vision of your own project. :)

An edit:
Oh yeah, that reminded me of a thing. Had to go find the thing again, and fortunately knew the breadcrumbs.

Introversion Software (Prison Architect) had originally developed a lot of framework for a game that ended up too ambitious and was cancelled, but they did a lot of work on city and building generation.

Main list of blog posts:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120504053028/https://www.introversion.co.uk/subver...

The building floorplan specific one:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120506213155/http://forums.introversion.co.uk/intr...

Thanks for the link!