Re: [liquidwar-user] map generator update

[Christian Mauduit]

Hi,

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 04:32:41PM -0500, Redick David A wrote:
> Liquid War Random Map Generator.
> www.cs.clemson.edu/~dredick/lwmapgen.tar.bz2
> www.cs.clemson.edu/~dredick/lwmapgen/index.html
OK, it's been included in the current CVS source tree, works pretty well
under Linux so far 8-)

> well... I guess its beta quality now.
> There are 11 different functions now.
> AFAIK there are no memory leaks or fatal bugs.
mmm, to be honest I'm still able to segfault it sometimes. Seems there's
some floating point exception. However, it's not such a problem since LW
fires it as a separate process, so it doesn't harm the game in itself
(only the map isn't generated), and when running in command line mode
often the solution is just to relaunch it and it works.

> Play with it and let me know what you think.
Well, I do think most random map are pretty playable. Just my opinion
though.

I also noticed that on your web site you mention that some of your
functions can create "traps". AFAIK LW (at least in its current state, I
mean the CVS one) is able to get rid of those traps and "paint" will
wall whatever zone would not be contiguous with the rest of the map.

> BTW: Does any one want/need a win32 binary of it?
Not me 8-) However there's a bunch of Windows LW users, so a binary can
always be usefull, especially when Windows does not comes with no
compiler at all, so users are usually unable to prepare binaries
themselves...

As you mention this, I'd just like to say to Windows users (Kasper for
instance) that I'm currently almost done with getting a working windows
developpement environment ready, so binaries for 5.6.0pre1 should be
ready soon now. I'd least I'm working on it. This will allow people to
pre-test the stuff before I release it "officially" (nothing's really
official with LW, but well, I try to make releases that work good to
save end-users some trouble).

A side effect of this is that the win32 binary for lwmapgen will also 
be available soon 8-)

Have a nice day,

Christian. 

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