Roguelike Maps?

[Atherton]

Hi

I was wondering if anyone knows How I'd go about generating random Maps like in Rogue or Pokemon Mystery Dungeon? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

[uprize]

Google 'perlin noise' to generate a height map. Then you need to come up with some events which convert the height map to objects etc.
This is just one way of doing it. You will need to get yourself a working algorithm (I use LUA for this and simply pass values into MMF2 when needed) and then tweak values and add more functions once you get that working.

[Random]

The common approach is to take a 2d array for your map, then "dig out" rooms and hallways.

Define a starting point, then

- connect either a hallway of random length or a room of random size.
- if the dungeon is smaller than the desired final size, take the boundary fields of either, and insert a random amount of doors
- repeat the process for every door

- when done, add stairs down at random positions, and all the other objects you want to have.

That actually programming an algorithm like this is 100 times easier in scripting/programming than in MMF should be obvious.

[netninja]

You might also want to look into the Pathfinding Object with its Generate maze function.

[uprize]

That actually programming an algorithm like this is 100 times easier in scripting/programming than in MMF should be obvious.

Thats why I use LUA, its much faster and so much tidier than fastlooping