River Based Terrain Generation

River Based Terrain Generation - Sapiens Devlog 36

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5 жыл бұрын

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Rivers can be a bit of a problem with procedural terrain, so instead of trying to calculate rivers on top of perlin noise based terrain, I've instead started with the rivers and built the terrain up from there. I also have a whole new world creation menu where you can see a preview of the globe, and customize it before you start a game.
In Sapiens, evolve your primitive hunter gatherers through thousands of years of technological advancement. Feed, protect and grow your tribe, build towns and industry, and advance through the ages in this first person civilization building god game for PC. Play with your friends in co-operative or competitive multiplayer, all on a procedurally generated planet larger than Earth.
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Sapiens website: playsapiens.com
Developer website: majicjungle.com
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@sammcguire8667 4 жыл бұрын

I spent 3 days making a sprite move on screen, almost at your level.

@benrex7775 4 жыл бұрын

It took me 1 day to remodel a button into a healf-bar in pygame. I'm right there with you.

@majicDave 4 жыл бұрын

I can remember doing the same, we all have to start somewhere :)

@miauw8762 4 жыл бұрын

@@majicDave how much experience do you have? And where do you learn this stuff?

@fawazaljohani8447 4 жыл бұрын

@@miauw8762 I'm pretty sure he has a lot of experience, and he got it from experience, in a few words, get your hands dirty

@stupidrainbo 4 жыл бұрын

@@fawazaljohani8447 He got his experience from experience!?

@Danidev 4 жыл бұрын

Can't wait for release man, and congrats on the baby! That's amazing :)

@smile_stories7100 4 жыл бұрын

You... I know you

@mattthebanana 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Dani! How are you doing? I’m a big fan.

@fawazaljohani8447 4 жыл бұрын

CAN YOU PLEASE CALL BRACKEYS AND TELL HIM ABOUT THIS DUDE, GET HIM IN YOUR CLUB FOR FUCK SAKE HE IS A FUCKING LEGEND, JUST LOOK AT THAT GOD DAMN PLANET ITS HUGE

@datscrazy4095 4 жыл бұрын

@@fawazaljohani8447 He knows about em trust me... Dani and Jabrills know about him HIGHLY unlikely he isn't known by Brackey's when they all are working on the Game Jam.

@the_untextured 3 жыл бұрын

@chaoticdevelopment8542 4 жыл бұрын

The rivers could be super useful for rafts which would give you fast transport in exporting resources and characters just an idea ;p

@smakkacowtherealone 4 жыл бұрын

so slave ships

@Zero11s 4 жыл бұрын

earth is flat

@smakkacowtherealone 4 жыл бұрын

@@Zero11s you elbow faced simpleton

@smakkacowtherealone 4 жыл бұрын

@@Zero11s listen, I will continue to believe the earth is round. You won't stop me.

@Zero11s 4 жыл бұрын

@@smakkacowtherealone well we have religious freedom so go as you please

@z-beeblebrox 4 жыл бұрын

Starting from rivers is brilliant! This is one of the few procedural terrain generators I've seen that generate rivers correctly because of it (well...as close to correct as reasonable!) I notice too, because of the way it uses the rivers to calculate terrain height, that you have lots of areas with very shallow banks (which is uncommon in games but very common irl), and that makes me wonder what it would look like if you added a very slight wave-ish motion to the water's actual height. I think you'd get some really interesting looking marsh-like areas where the banks are especially shallow. Plus, if that works, then you could introduce flooding! :D (or maybe not that sounds kind of brutal if the game can just wash away all your progress)

@benrex7775 4 жыл бұрын

I love the idea of marshes and waves.

@surrealsupercell7217 4 жыл бұрын

Natural disasters would actually be kinda cool...

@spooki-2451 4 жыл бұрын

""wash a-way , wash a-way !""

@Jabrils 4 жыл бұрын

Putting the product youre working to ship aside, the world youre building is absolutely beautiful. I can't wait to try my hand at building me own engine. So inspiring.

@vickylance 4 жыл бұрын

Hey, man :D Awesome to find you here. I can't wait to see your video building your own game engine :D

@ccstudios2960 4 жыл бұрын

Nice can’t wait for the release! Also you should make some tutorials on how to make a game engine, I think it would be interesting to see how it’s done! Love your work and can’t wait to see how it turns out!

@_Nerdiful_ 4 жыл бұрын

Check out The Cherno's channel. He's been doing a series on writing a game engine from the ground up for months now.

@ryann7760 4 жыл бұрын

requesting jungle/dense forest. (ancient temples/structures from a lost civilization would be cool aswell) :) loving the updates!

@sondrehyland3818 4 жыл бұрын

I realy like the idea of building up a civilization, so adding ancient temples would take away from this mindset. However I am also intrigued by your idea. Adding an option for post apocalyptic world, like the surface in "The Time Machine" or that type of scenario, would be quite mysterious and thrilling!

@ZeroRelevance 4 жыл бұрын

Ryan Neuman You should copy this to the suggestions section in the discord server. He has a higher chance of reading it there than here

@thomkok12 4 жыл бұрын

Or be able to make structures like that would be awesome too.

@ajmentel2453 4 жыл бұрын

@@sondrehyland3818 I agree with you, but what is funny is that society as we know it currently doesn't recognize that there have been large societies before us that fell due to environmental changes that sent us back to the Stone Age and that our society is the result of our ancestors picking up the pieces. If you're intrigued, check out Joe Rogan's podcasts with Graham Hancock. I bring this up because I feel as if this game will try to incorporate some hints of mystery and things unexplained into it, like Minecraft or Terraria. But, Sapiens seems more grounded than those two titles, so adding mysterious ruins and ancient decrepit temples is definitely the way to go.

@rijugas 4 жыл бұрын

@@ajmentel2453That sounds ridiculously stupid...

@gderu6109 4 жыл бұрын

Congrats about the baby!

@forgilageord 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you, KZfaq algorithm, for showing me this amazing looking game. Never heard of this before, but now I'm looking forward to its release!

@DeliusVDB 4 жыл бұрын

Can't wait to play this when it's released. It look extremely good.

@spdhome 4 жыл бұрын

Love the procedural generation! It's looking really nice. To add a bit of diversity to the rivers you might consider adding spring locations in certain biomes. A spring could generate pretty much anywhere and create a river or stream that would work it's way down to the lowest point. If it generated at a low point it would create a pond or lake, not sure if that fits in with your waterway system of travel though.

@MaxEthoWatch 4 жыл бұрын

I understand that having trees be visible from long distances is a performance issue, but if there were some way to make forested mountain-flanks appear darker green and mottled, that would be awesome; at the moment they look tragically barren. Love the work, been following since Ambience!

@RialuCaos 4 жыл бұрын

Maybe he could make the level of detail change the 3D trees into 2D billboard sprites with just images of trees at a distance? I'm not sure how it'd look but it might be an improvement from the complete disappearance of trees.

@kiawildberger 4 жыл бұрын

@@RialuCaos ive seen something like that done somewhere, and it was either bob ross or some rendering engine iirc it looked really good and wasnt bad performance-wise

@houstonhampton2418 4 жыл бұрын

Congratulations on the baby. I don’t have a pc but I’m very interested in this project. Keep up the great work

@criminallyinsaneskel 4 жыл бұрын

I'm excited to setup a tribe on a river with those stunning views and send a boat down the river or explore that nearby mountain! I can't wait to see what there will be to find! Ancient treasure, other tribes, animals, who knows what else! I am also loving these videos, fascinating technical overview!

@surrealsupercell7217 4 жыл бұрын

The sense of vastness on being a real planet is simply incredible... Especially with the terrain detail and realism.

@UnintendedSheep 4 жыл бұрын

That new tab to create a new world is amazing! I cant wait to mess around in this game. It looks like so much fun! Also grats on the baby!

@The1wsx10 4 жыл бұрын

yeah it looks awesome being super fast like that

@jeanjacquesstrydom 4 жыл бұрын

From all the dev log videos I've seen, the world in Sapiens is by far the coolest terrain generation

@JaxiPaxified 4 жыл бұрын

Congratulations on the little one, hope everything goes well. It is still looking great!

@droopmoose 4 жыл бұрын

You're uploading at 3am... On that grind huh? Actually you're in a different time zone. Europe? Isn't that later? Idk I'm drunk. But good shit man I can't wait to play this and give you what little money I have. I typed this as fast as possible to be first, but for real the progress you're making is ridiculous. If big ass corporations like Activision had 10 people as motivated and inspired as you, video games would be 10× better than the shit we have now. Keep it up homie

@UltraBot 4 жыл бұрын

He is from New Zealand, mid-late afternoon there. I'm loving his work too.

@grimsby2014 4 жыл бұрын

New Zealand, I think. Might be wrong.

@Mortizul 4 жыл бұрын

He's clearly a Kiwi.

@SizzlingSquiggle 4 жыл бұрын

It's so cool to see you working from a distant view of the world... because you forget how small you are in it and how beautiful the world is when you step inside it!

@Siminfrance 4 жыл бұрын

Congratulation on the addition to your family. Thanks for the update! I am not famillar with LUA express, (or whatever it is called), so I would love to see an update on that :)

@Gidaio 4 жыл бұрын

LuaJIT is what he mentioned. JIT stands for "Just In Time", and is used to refer to compiling an interpreted language (like Lua) as you use the functions, so next time they're used, they don't have to be reinterpreted.

@Siminfrance 4 жыл бұрын

@@Gidaio lol, maybe I should have gone back to listen. But still, I am keen to find out more about it.

@Gidaio 4 жыл бұрын

@@Siminfrance Haha. Most of that wasn't actually in the video. I use a lot of JITs for other languages at work, and have used LuaJIT before. Still, I haven't done much, so I'd love to hear him go into more detail.

@bradyunderwood8171 4 жыл бұрын

Glad you are keeping up on the devlogs! Im getting more and more hyped each week!

@vidSpac 4 жыл бұрын

Congrats on adding the new Sapien to the tribe

@benrex7775 4 жыл бұрын

@jesswasher7552 4 жыл бұрын

Congratz on the baby!! And about the game i just want to say its looking great so far, and i really feel like you absolutely nailed the atmosphere with the couple songs you have that play.

@matyastomoga9944 4 жыл бұрын

One of my favourite part of Rimworld was that you could travel, if you can make that good in your game, that would make the game a lot better! And you could also make secrets on the map, like obelisks and there could be a mystery to solve like in Surviving Mars. Keep up the good work!

@dannydavis8577 4 жыл бұрын

Greatly appreciate and enjoy the videos, & I am thoroughly excited for the game!

@talus14 4 жыл бұрын

Ive been following this for a couple of months , Loving the content :) .

@nichtmarkus647 4 жыл бұрын

Really inspiring to watch these videos and see the progress

@aedan_s 4 жыл бұрын

This is really interesting way to generate worlds! I love the new preview screen btw

@ecla141 4 жыл бұрын

Another awesome addition to your game. I honestly can’t wait to play this. Keep up the good work!

@DandolfiGames 4 жыл бұрын

Looks great! Gotta love that globe view with the sliders! Amazing work, keep IT up! Looking forward to future updates

@MrHeliMan 4 жыл бұрын

I love your work. Each update seems to bring great features. The rivers look so realistic from the globe view too. I wish you keep adding features and make the planet more memorable and less flat. More biomes, caves, waterfalls, very steep mountains and such... It could end up looking like the Middle-earth :D

@itzchip9455 4 жыл бұрын

Yaaas! New video I can’t even explain how much I love these videos

@mattthebanana 4 жыл бұрын

I love watching these update videos. It gives a sense of progression. I wishlisted it on Steam. Also, Congratulations.

@sabanburaknazlm1381 4 жыл бұрын

That's very cool! You inspire us a lot to keep programming our own game engine!

@mineman2142 4 жыл бұрын

Coming along nicely dude :) good luck and keep at it

@aj739 4 жыл бұрын

This is amazing it’s hard to believe you are doing this by your self I can’t wait for the release

@odoboj 4 жыл бұрын

This looks amazing! Really inspiring. Your world will allow players to really have their own stories

@travisguthrie1839 4 жыл бұрын

Game is looking awesome! Congrats on the new family member!

@G4Vgamers 4 жыл бұрын

im really exited to play you gameee!!! look really goood, and the thing you can do in it soound cool too, good luck with it! i will be looking all the updates!!!! Congrats for the baby!!

@nn6404 4 жыл бұрын

This guy is making something really special. I don't even care when it releases. Just watching this design process unfold is super fascinating. I wish other games like Ancient Cities and Ostriv would do videos like these.

@ThePimp4dawin 4 жыл бұрын

Just beautiful. This game is breathtaking.

@sakuniaben 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing work! Quite interesting solution to rivers I'm currently also working on a world generation pet project and your work is an amazing inspiration for me :) keep it up!

@maxsmith8196 4 жыл бұрын

This game honestly looks like my dream, I would to have a world generator like that alone. But to actually be able to play in the world is mind blowing to me, the feeling of the game is very important to me, and so far you’ve just nailed it! You take so many things that similar games struggle with, and find a way to solve the problem, instead of just doing some kind of patchwork of easy solutions. Can’t wait to where this goes!

@olliesacoustics 4 жыл бұрын

Hey Dave, I really love watching these updates - such a beautiful game and great work ! Can't wait to see other animals & plants being added to the world 😍 keep up the awesome work ! Ollie - Australia PS congrats on the new born ! 🎉🎉

@gblawrence034 4 жыл бұрын

Just recently stumbled across your channel. Started watching your Sapiens devblog series, which is really interesting by the way - I found it fascinating to see the development and creation of an idea and the gameplay steadily progressing. The game looks stunning and I will definitely look at buying it when it releases. Then I looked back at your earliest videos and realised you’re the creator behind some of my favourite mobile games as a kid! I used to play the chopper games for hours on end. Thank you for being here Dave and thank you for logging the journey of your new game. I will be subscribing and following your game from now on. Props to you!!

@Pe30Beat 4 жыл бұрын

Waw, I am amazed how you can manage all of this, family, work and developing a game.

@The1Green4Man 4 жыл бұрын

It’s called passion

@hollodollo4771 4 жыл бұрын

I don't belive he is employed

@arctic-1878 4 жыл бұрын

First time seeing this, looks interesting! Being able to work on a project like this with only myself to answer to is a small dream, so this is inspiring!

@bazyt1 4 жыл бұрын

This is looking very very impressive 👍

@FemtoSecn 4 жыл бұрын

Man am really looking up to this game. Keep it up and congrats 👍

@rogue 4 жыл бұрын

Just discovered this and I LOVE it. Excited to see where you take this!

@Rossilaz58 4 жыл бұрын

Same! Discovered it a while back and honestly can't wait any longer!

@ncoll36 4 жыл бұрын

This game has such a beautiful aesthetic to it, and enabling biomes again adds so much more to it. I can't wait to see what other sort of content you add to this base engine along the way. I'm glad you brought up about how you plan to start the game and how you'd normally interact with it, because I've always wondered about how you speed around and things popping in and out of render. The way you plan to do it seems pretty solid to me.

@ai-spacedestructor 4 жыл бұрын

looks interesting, adding it to wishlist and coing to follow the development to see how it continues.

@nicke20686 4 жыл бұрын

Congrats on the baby!! Biomes and your river system look awesome. Just hoping the tundra biome eventually gets a little more detail and similar treatment that your grassy lush biome has.

@niffchiold 4 жыл бұрын

that globe view is stunning, this looks so good

@sloppyjoseph9196 4 жыл бұрын

looks great!

@NeroPop 4 жыл бұрын

This game is looking so good can’t wait to play!

@GamePuppetsStudio 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing work!

@lionkor98 4 жыл бұрын

The terrain needs to be much more granular, you know, like small hills and the like. Right now the entire world feels like a desert with different colors; You could think about little cliffs, some small hills, more variation in terms of vegetation (like different colored grass, that would already add so much!) You're a huge inspiration, every time I watch these videos I get a boost of inspiration to just go and create stuff!

@jakejakeo5008 4 жыл бұрын

Looking amazing

@fahlgorithm 4 жыл бұрын

Wow that area at 14:28 is amazing! Makes me really excited to find an awesome place to setup a village.

@JamesTheFoxeArt 4 жыл бұрын

Can’t wait for this game to release, I’m a fan of games that let you interact with the environment

@zanturovahjul419 4 жыл бұрын

Ooo caves and rocky mountains would be really cool, and jungles as well. This game is probably one of those that Im really looking forward to

@brettgoldsmith8584 4 жыл бұрын

Exciting! Edit: make sure you allow for Hunter gatherer type tribes as well as settlers. I want to hunt some mammoths

@orangutaunthefirst3313 4 жыл бұрын

This game looks so amazing man I’m so hyped

@GwenHrothgar 4 жыл бұрын

Congratulations for the next child, man! About Lua: Jonathan Blow also talked that it was preferable to just ship the game with a C/C++ compiler, than to use slow interpreted languages for modding. The game looks great. Keep up the good work

@GwenHrothgar 4 жыл бұрын

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r5iHoN1imse8m2Q.html

@sanojLeOne 4 жыл бұрын

I think erosion would look real good with this system.

@aldini9329 4 жыл бұрын

What game has erosion effects that's an insane thing to do with an entire team

@earth4180 4 жыл бұрын

@@aldini9329 well, no. Erosion is doable but it's a very heavy (computational) load and when doing terrain generation like this in real-time it's near impossible not to cause frame drops or even lag

@aldini9329 4 жыл бұрын

@@earth4180 what are we talking about here erosion with deposition isnt possible at all but if you.mean a cycle where it just randomly deposits sediment and put it back that's fine but useless realistic deposition is impossible right now

@More_Row 4 жыл бұрын

Very neat globe view man.

@Zamzeeflizzam 4 жыл бұрын

Hey Dave, been watching your videos for a while. Love the work! I think the world generation screen is one of the coolest things you’ve implemented so far. Just a tip with it though - the buttons for the World Name and Seed don’t really look like buttons. I think the player could miss those. You might want to make a defined edge for the top and the right side of the buttons. Keep up the great work and congratulations on the baby!

@amoros798 4 жыл бұрын

It think being able to interact friendlily with other tribes (trade of resource, knowledge, offerings etc) would be really interesting as that is what I love in similar games. Also, making civilizations near rivers should be really profitable, especially to interact with others. Thanks for the updates, loving the game so far :D

@Rossilaz58 4 жыл бұрын

It's all coming together!

@KeirRice 4 жыл бұрын

Good luck with the next few weeks! On the rivers, minute physics has a great video on why rivers curve. I think the randomness could use a pass of river curves over the top.

@Thomazmllm 4 жыл бұрын

Please add a lot of marshes too! =D ohhhhhh congratz on the baby!

@AdrianHernandez-jt7wq 4 жыл бұрын

Just discovered your game. Thx youtube recomendations!

@bbhxskeppy814 4 жыл бұрын

Add Territories: as in, when starting a world, you are brought to a screen which lets you zoom from one tribe to another and their ‘space’ is highlighted. Territory could be gradually expanded by sending people to explore. This would be a fun idea

@The1wsx10 4 жыл бұрын

c++ modding sounds great. having the scripts is good, and would probably be most mods. but for the really large overhauls and things, having the core of them in native should be a really big help.

@triskop1047 4 жыл бұрын

Congrats on babby Frampton!!! Also can't wait for release!

@MrN1c3Guy100 4 жыл бұрын

I guess you have a lot of work ahead of you but this looks better and better with every video!

@moonmail3422 4 жыл бұрын

Don't forget to have rivers that generate from mountains! snow melt is a thing.

@Madman5465 4 жыл бұрын

Congratulations with the baby!

@mch43856 4 жыл бұрын

amazing work man

@tremort.3751 4 жыл бұрын

I’m looking forward to the next video, it’s been a month already 😬. A quick one will do it, tho. It’s just that they are really cool to watch

@rustyJake_ 4 жыл бұрын

Looks amazing! I would kill to be able to play this game.

@AvatarProductionStudio 4 жыл бұрын

Honestly the work you have done so far. Is amzing And really makes me think of that show. The human tree And dont know if you have seen it. But it's worth a look up. And making this into an evolution game would be ground breaking Where terran and climate alter the traits and appearance of the NPCs And if it's a third person view that you want to stick with. Just imagine how you can take this game. An I'm sure you can even Change it and release several games with the same base An idle viewing experience Or a strategy game. Or a civilization builder So many possibilities with what you have started And been a long time in coming the last 5 years Just looking forward to the release !

@blatheblathe3rd852 4 жыл бұрын

noiccceeeee

@rachard 4 жыл бұрын

KZfaq Reccomended this to me *Now im hyped for the game*

@evenprime1658 Жыл бұрын

looks great

@GamesInHouse 4 жыл бұрын

Great additions!

@mxruben81 4 жыл бұрын

Looking forward to modding this!

@Gaark 4 жыл бұрын

Congrats on #4! :D

@marsmann007 4 жыл бұрын

This. Is. Awesome.

@Grantis 4 жыл бұрын

Congrats on your baby!

@Tatuzka 4 жыл бұрын

This game looks super interesting! :o

@majarimennamazerinth5753 4 жыл бұрын

I think Toki Pona has great potential as a lore-language in games.

@Endrw 4 жыл бұрын

daddy dave back at it again

@mcrafterzz2447 4 жыл бұрын

Some ideas: Add saplings so that you can replant trees Make the grass regrow over dirt when there isn't an object on top of it so that it looks natural when you place terrain. Seasons and weather. Imagine some thunder for example which would make the people hide inside. Would be really cool!

@nn6404 4 жыл бұрын

having more sheer cliffs and physically intraversable terrain would be amazing. Like I'm imagining mesas with huge gorges for rivers. Or tall pillar mountains like you'd get in China. You're getting somewhere with these river valleys being the starting points for the tribes. I think that a lot of this game could derive from how you interact with the landscape. Especially given the way that you've built the physics engine.

@bondunkulus7648 4 жыл бұрын

Loving how the game is coming along :) I think that rather than making weapons and putting them on the floor, maybe you could make weapon racks that the people will take from and when they're done they put it back. Or maybe use both :)