World Generation

[Kev]

Recently the nightly version world generation system has been modified, i have attached 2 screenshots that show world generation with a custom sea level of 30% in v1.5.0 and r27262

In 1.5.0 this setting would create a series of lakes/seas over the entire map but r27262 just creates masses of water with no lakes.

Is it still possible to generate maps in the nightly vesion that creates a series of lakes/seas?

[Alberth]

The sea level only controls how many tiles are water, it doesn't control the shape.
To get more smaller areas of water, you need more 'small' low areas, which you generally get by increasing the variety distribution.

(Variety distribution controls how 'fast' land height changes. 'Slow' changes means big large water areas, 'Fast' changes means many small areas.)

[Eddi]

some values in the map generation may need tweaking since the introduction of more heightlevels has made things more complicated.
also, see discussion over here: http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=63595

[Baldy's Boss]

I have yet to generate a world in 1.5.
I did generate one Mountainous world in 1.4.4 (having specialized in Hilly) in case those levels now have new definitions.
Am I correct that Alpinist is new in 1,5?

[hpfx]

Hi,
I must say, I could not find a way to get map generation that I loved in the past,
if someone can help.
what I want : old-school (very) flat land map, almost no sea or lake.
why : because I play trains, no boats.

Setting I tried :
terrain Type : very flat
sea level : custom 1%
variety distribution : Medium
Smoothness : smooth

Map I got : way too much water.

The sea level only controls how many tiles are water

Well, I asked for 1%, but I got almost half of tiles.

Which you generally get by increasing the variety distribution.

I can't increase more than Medium, higer value does not reduce water tiles, and it make square patern everywhere.

any idea ?
There should be a way to get such a map...
Thank you.

[Sylf]

Set variety distribution to none and try again. That setting is more useful (at least to me) with more hilly/mountainous/alpinist map. With no variety distribution, I only see a few ponds, and not a large bay that occupy a quarter of the map, along with normal amount of ponds.

[bvoice360]

Perhaps it would be best to wait for the next official release and see if they've worked the issues out before asking about issues in what is effectively the alpha of the next version, as nightlies are not the most bug-free of versions. The devs probably already knew about this, and i think that they will have fixed it in time for the next stable release

[Alberth]

Perhaps it would be best to wait for the next official release and see if they've worked the issues out before asking about issues in what is effectively the alpha of the next version, as nightlies are not the most bug-free of versions. The devs probably already knew about this, and i think that they will have fixed it in time for the next stable release

Nightlies are pretty much as stable as stable itself, it's just that most server owners and players don't want to download a new version every day, so there is a stable version that exists for something like a year, and gets fixes backported.

The only thing we really know about is the open bugs in the issue tracker bugs.openttd.org . If it's not there, there is a big chance we don't know.
However, it never hurts to ask confirmation first at the forum before reporting, so we don't have to triage bug reports that are not really bugs.

[bvoice360]

I'm too used to experimental Minecraft versions...