islaApocalypse/Tools
beezm 59f49ac8a2 fix: detail must yield to the crater carve (terrain-water task 10)
Batch 10_detail_edge measured 532 new below-sea pixels on seed
1158286446 and 44 on 72563200 -- exported terrain under the sea scalar
that the water grid (classify-driven, and correctly identical) calls dry.
Located: every one of them strictly inside the crater's physical carve
radius, 201-323 px out of 640.

Mechanism, confirmed against the data: detail moves a column's PRE-carve
height, and the carve is Lerp(curvedH, target, t). At t ~ 0.45-0.62 a
pre-carve drop of up to 8.4 m (relief plus the band-shift the warp
implies) still passes 0.02-3.53 m through, which is enough to push a
column sitting 0-3.45 m above the sea inside the bowl under it.

The crater carve is supposed to be the FINAL authority on its own
terrain, so detail now yields to it: CraterDetailWeight is 0 inside
0.80 x CraterRadius (exactly the carve's own radius) and feathers to
full by 1.05 x, scaling both the edge shift and the relief skin. Inside
the carve, B is bit-identical to A by construction, so the count is zero
rather than small. The reverted incision pass carried the same exclusion
for the same reason -- the principle outlived the pass that motivated it.

Re-running the 6 B_detail generations; A_off and the continuity run are
untouched by a detail-only change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-08 21:23:28 -04:00
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Scenes docs: BLUEPRINT_FORMAT.md + README updates for the v2 container (terrain-water task 02) 2026-08-06 07:31:03 -04:00
Scripts fix: detail must yield to the crater carve (terrain-water task 10) 2026-08-08 21:23:28 -04:00
README.md docs: water sections (WBID/WBTB/WSRF), no-BSIN rationale, SkipRoads + water stage in READMEs (terrain-water task 03) 2026-08-07 01:40:48 -04:00

/Tools

Offline developer utilities. Nothing here ships. These generate the source data that /Server and /Client later consume, which keeps world-generation logic out of the shipped client.

The 2D world generator

Script: Tools/Scripts/MapGenerator.cs · Scenes: Tools/Scenes/MapPreview.tscn and Scenes/MapCaptureTool.tscn

Builds the topographical and logistical foundation of the island before any 3D exists.

  • Resolution is config-driven, from ServerConfig.json's MapProfile: 4K/6K/8K/10K → 4096 / 6144 / 8192 / 10240. Shipped default is 8K. 1 pixel = 1 in-game metre = 1 voxel footprint. (The MapSize field initialiser in the script says 4096, but it is overwritten from config before use.)
  • Topography: FastNoiseLite plus distance-falloff maths for a guaranteed mainland island, a mountain spine, dynamic temperature-driven sea level, and an impact crater pushed into the northern coast (carved at 80 % of its radius so a landbridge always survives).
  • Water bodies: the classified water promoted into explicit blueprint data (ocean + labeled lakes with transitional per-body levels — WBID/WBTB/WSRF sections), plus priority-flood basin diagnostics. The SkipRoads config toggle turns a full ~26-min generation into a ~80 s road-less iteration cycle.
  • Logistics: AStarGrid2D pathfinding producing a looping continental highway, a branch to the mountain hub, and county roads daisy-chained outward with Prim's algorithm. Paths are decimated (RamerDouglasPeucker) then smoothed (4 Chaikin passes).
  • Zoning: biome mapping and tiered town/POI placement by slope, temperature and proximity.

⚠️ A* is the known bottleneck

The grid is one node per pixel — 67 million nodes at 8K — and the weight-setup pass walks every one of them. A full generation can stall long enough that runs get abandoned. await yields are sprinkled through the road stage, but they cannot interrupt a single engine-side GetPointPath call, so they only help between paths. Expect a regeneration to take minutes, or to need abandoning.

Outputs — written to user://, not into the project

File What it is
MapData_Seed_<seed>.dat The binary blueprint the server reads — v2 tagged container (~336 MB at 8K; contract in Core/Scripts/BLUEPRINT_FORMAT.md)
MapData_Seed_<seed>_v1.dat The same content in the legacy v1 format (~512 MB), dual-written as a safety net until a future removal task
Map_Seed_<seed>.png Visual snapshot of the map, for reviewing and picking seeds

On Linux: ~/.local/share/godot/app_userdata/islaApocolypse/.

Running it

Open Tools/Scenes/MapPreview.tscn and press F6. It is also the project's main scene, so pressing F5 anywhere runs this — which is why F5 regenerates your world instead of starting the game. Use Scenes/MapCaptureTool.tscn when you specifically want the full-resolution PNG.

Rules

  1. No client dependencies. Nothing here may reference UI, player controllers or shaders in /Client.
  2. Data out, nothing in. Tools emit .dat/.png/.json; they never write to a live server save.
  3. No magic numbers. Distances and radii scale off MapSize or the derived scaleFactor, so the generator behaves the same at every profile.