one query though, how do i use the gens when making a server?

The server asks you what vxl map file to load. So before you run the server, you run one of the generators to create a vxl file, then you load that on the server.

When Ben puts in victory conditions / automatic map resets, this will change. If all goes according to plan then at that point you'll be able to hook these generators up to to the server so it can automatically generate a new map itself.

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Sure is bumpy in here.

I currently use the save_vxl function for pyspades, and I've found a rather fatal, admittedly rare, bug with it. Sometimes, top_colors_end can be 0, and since the code sets it to top_colors_end - 1, it wraps and becomes 255. Doing a simple

if (top_colors_end == 0)
    *out = 0;
else
    *out = top_colors_end - 1;

fixes the problem, so it's a rather trivial problem also :)

Whoops.

Hmm. I don't think that would fix it, because then it should try to load an extra color, does that really work?

Basically, the code should never work if top_colors_start == top_colors_end. It's designed around the assumption there will always be some top_colors.

I believe the correct fix is to add the following to is_surface, after is "if (map[...])" check:

if (z == 0) return 1;

which just says "if a solid voxel is at the top edge of the map, it is visible, so it is a surface voxel". I believe this was even mentioned in the voxlap documentation, and I just forgot to enforce it.

But I haven't tested the fix.

This is amazing.

I can't wait till people can put up a rotation of these map gens, leading to strings of maps that are all different, but has one theme.

Inb4 necrobumping accusations.

Fucking bloody hell 1337101, get out of my head.

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@Kaede-Chan: Nah, that was pretty easy to call.

Jeez sorry, I guess this forum is srs bzns right?

Something like that.

The hell are you doing browsing these dusty old threads anyway?

Well, 1337 mentioned the random map generators, and nothings, so I just looked it up real quick.

I figured it was something like that.

I actually don't mind that his stuff is getting some publicity out of this... they really are nice third-party tools.