This UI is obviously placeholder and terrible, but the game mechanics are now going in. Those who were following the development of MMORPG Tycoon 1.1 (before I cancelled work on it) will remember that the major new features in version 1.1 were going to be the new, more interesting player AI model, and the user-adjustable…

Stuff from today: I fixed up the generation of the Voronoi cells, so that there are no longer “empty spaces” in the corners and edges of the map, as I mentioned yesterday.  It’s true that having them there wouldn’t have caused a problem for regions, but I’m planning to use this code for a few…

Apologies;  I promise that there’ll actually be some colour in tomorrow’s development screenshot! So today I’ve done a few more bits and pieces.  First, I fixed the weird clipping bug in the northwest corner of the map which I mentioned yesterday (it was just float imprecision.  Gotta love it!).  Second, I moved the generation of…

This screenshot is basically invisible, in this thumbnail.  Today’s work was clipping Voronoi regions against other regions.  In computer graphics, “clipping” generally means not drawing something;  usually this is in reference to 3D objects.  For example, you might “clip” a 3D model against the viewing area, and then not bother drawing any parts of the…

What you’re looking at here is known in mathematic circles as a Delaunay tesselation (viewed from a skewed angle).  Basically, pick a bunch of random points in space, then join those points together with lines in such a way as to make the nicest triangles possible.  Of course, being a mathematics thing, there’s actually a…