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Points: 2042 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 03 Apr 2012 at 18:47
Here's a bit of history about the map creation from the dev blog. 


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Points: 519 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 03 Apr 2012 at 18:43
I know there was a map.  Then the devs overlaid some sort of "fractal map" on top of the map.  But how did they create the original map?  Was it hand drawn or was there code to create that?  How did they create the "fractal overlay".  Was it based on Perlin Noise or some other type of fractal algorithm?  Did they use separate fractal overlays for land height, tree density, soil moisture, etc...?  How did they create lakes and rivers?  Did they develop a technique to create those from a fractal algorithm too or were they hand drawn?

Really curious because the results are interesting for a completely computer generated map.
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