World generator based on simulated plate tectonics

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World generator based on simulated plate tectonics

Postby shart2069 » Sat Mar 02, 2013 11:13 pm

Went nosing about the web for something to help me generate random continent outlines, and see what I found:

It can randomly generate a world based upon simulating a number of tectonic plates moving about.

This decides where mountains are, and it also tries to roughly assign land climate / vegetation based upon distance from the equator.

http://www.reddit.com/r/worldbuilding/c ... generates/

Download link: (.jar file runs under Java runtime 6 or higher)

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7700226/ContinentGenv1.jar

Figure I can export off a random world and import the image into Hexographer or something to do some more work on it.
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Re: World generator based on simulated plate tectonics

Postby shart2069 » Sun Mar 03, 2013 12:12 am

Just discovered a version with more options for tweaking things here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/wyf5q8cfmdi4n ... 2.jar?dl=1
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