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(it’s worth noting that the top middle witch hut isn’t actually a valid position in this image)<\/p>\n
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As it turns out, actually competently generating this is something of a chore.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Red lines represent the different points that roads can come from.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In this system locations are composed of 3×3 tile squares, with a single tile buffer between them \u00a0(4×4 and up aren’t really viable due to tile size relative to screen size). Being a grid, there can be one roadway coming in on each side. Our road system isn’t sophisticated: the presence of a two road tiles next to each automatically connects them- no independent roads that are adjacent but going in different directions. The ultimate goal is to place the node (a town, a dungeon, etc) in a location such that every roadway uses it as the crossroads so that the pathways between zones are visually clear to the player: therefore each roadway must not touch another or it will create a second crossroads. With only one or two roadways, the position of the node can be anywhere within the grid. Once you hit 3 roadways, certain node positions are impossible relative to the roadway positions. At 4, every roadway needs to directly intersect.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The problem this creates is interdependence between every zone. A zone with only 2 connections, one of which has 4 connections, must place one of its roadways based on what the 4 connection wants. With enough 3\/4 connection zones present, it ends up with a fairly uniform placement despite the effort to do otherwise. It’s also a pain to process when altering one zone can have ramifications on all of the others.<\/p>\n So I dropped it. Because it’s not that important relative to the amount of work it was going to take. And went for total uniformity:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n It looks alright. It’s also slightly more readable than the version with offsets. There may come a time to improve the look of it. That time isn’t now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This week’s big issue revolved around zone pathways. Last week I showed off this theoretical image of how to place zones in a grid, but offset the position of the node to create an illusion of breaking up the grid: (it’s worth noting that the top middle witch hut isn’t actually a… Continue reading Dependency<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-generation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crabattack.org\/blog\/hawk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crabattack.org\/blog\/hawk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crabattack.org\/blog\/hawk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crabattack.org\/blog\/hawk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crabattack.org\/blog\/hawk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.crabattack.org\/blog\/hawk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"https:\/\/www.crabattack.org\/blog\/hawk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crabattack.org\/blog\/hawk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crabattack.org\/blog\/hawk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crabattack.org\/blog\/hawk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n