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Two additions, both observability only — no generation, routing, weight, terrain or mesher behaviour changes. 1. Every progress print is now prefixed with elapsed time since generation started, e.g. [+ 142.7s], including a line per pipeline stage and per county road. The per-stage split (setup / continental loop / branch / county) can now be read straight off the console. Two A* fix attempts have been reasoned from structure rather than measurement; this makes the measurement free. 2. The end-of-run PNG capture was extracted into a reusable stage capture that can be called at any pipeline boundary. Snapshots are now taken after biomes, after towns, and after roads. The draw proxy renders whatever exists at the time, so stages that have not run simply do not appear — and a future water stage will show up automatically once it populates its data. The existing capture path is reused unchanged: same offscreen SubViewport, same draw proxy, same frame-yield plus double GPU wait. Those waits are load-bearing, not superstition, and each staged capture honours them. Snapshot filenames gain a stage suffix: Map_Seed_<seed>_1_biomes.png, _2_towns.png, _3_roads.png. Nothing reads these but a human, verified. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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| islaApocolypse.csproj | ||
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IslaApocalypse
Version: v0.0.1 — prototyping / salvage. Not a playable build.
Engine: Godot 4.7.1 · C# / .NET 8 (Godot.NET.Sdk 4.7.1)
A procedurally generated, multiplayer-ready voxel survival game on a post-nuclear Caribbean island. Terrain is smooth (Marching Cubes), not blocky.
Design intent, decisions and rationale live in the design vault, not here. This README and the per-directory ones describe what the code does. For why, see the vault repo (
islaApocalypse-vault-v0.1).
How the world gets built
Two phases, with a file in between.
- 2D blueprint (
Tools/Scripts/MapGenerator.cs) — FastNoiseLite topography, dynamic sea level, an impact crater, biome zoning, tiered town placement, and an A* road network in four tiers (Highway, Branch, Rugged, Trail). Written to a binary.dat. - 3D voxel world (
Server/+Core/) — the.datis parsed into RAM, and chunks are built around the Capitol: a density field per chunk, meshed with Marching Cubes, vertex-coloured by biome and depth, with roads carved into the terrain.
Map size is config-driven, not fixed. The shipped ServerConfig.json selects the 8K profile →
8192 × 8192, where 1 pixel = 1 metre = 1 voxel footprint.
⚠️ How to actually run it
Pressing Play (F5) does NOT run the game. The project's main scene is the 2D map generator, so F5
regenerates the entire world (minutes — and it currently stalls in the A* road pass) and overwrites
your .dat.
To view the 3D world:
- Open
Scenes/Main.tscn. - Press F6 — Run Current Scene.
It reads ServerConfig.json, loads the existing .dat, and builds the chunk grid.
To generate a new world (only when you actually want a new map): press F5, or open
Tools/Scenes/MapPreview.tscn and press F6.
Before you run it — set ChunkRadius
ServerConfig.json, at the project root:
{ "WorldSeed": 1063685222, "MapProfile": "8K", "TownDensity": "Normal", "ChunkRadius": 32 }
ChunkRadius is a load radius in chunks, not a chunk size. The grid built at boot is
(2 × radius)² chunks, all synchronously:
| ChunkRadius | Chunks built | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 64 | loads in seconds |
| 8 | 256 | still quick |
| 32 (shipped) | 4,096 | ~3.6 GB, minutes |
Use 4–8 while iterating. 32 is for looking at a lot of world at once.
MapProfile accepts 4K / 6K / 8K / 10K → 4096 / 6144 / 8192 / 10240.
Where the generated world lives
Outputs go to Godot's user://, not into this repo — on Linux,
~/.local/share/godot/app_userdata/islaApocolypse/:
MapData_Seed_<seed>.dat— the blueprint (~512 MB at 8K)Map_Seed_<seed>.png— a visual snapshot of the map, for reviewing and picking seeds
WorldSeed must match an existing .dat, or the load fails with
CRITICAL ERROR: Map file not found and you get an empty scene.
Directory layout
| Path | What's in it |
|---|---|
Core/ |
Shared, stateless logic: the .dat parser, Marching Cubes, chunk data, block registry, biome palette, constants. Used by both the server and client paths. |
Server/ |
Authoritative world building: loads the blueprint, builds chunks around the Capitol, computes densities, carves roads. |
Client/ |
Rendering: turns finished chunk data into MeshInstance3D geometry with a vertex-coloured material. |
Tools/ |
Offline developer tooling — the 2D map generator and its scenes. Never shipped. |
Scenes/ |
Runtime scenes. Main.tscn is the 3D world. |
Data/ |
Handoff folder for static world data. Currently documentation only. |
Resources/ |
Intended home for Godot .tres asset definitions. Currently documentation only. |
Current state
Working: 2D generation end to end at 8K · .dat write and read · chunk building · Marching Cubes
meshing with analytical normals and seam-free integer vertex welding · road carving for all four
tiers with per-tier width and grade · biome/depth vertex colouring with soft material fades.
Known issues:
- A* road generation is slow enough to stall a full regeneration — a 67-million-node grid at 1 px granularity, with a same-sized setup loop. The dominant open problem.
- Faint seam lines along chunk borders — a normals/shading difference between independently meshed chunks, not a gap in the geometry.
- No player, no collision, no water, and no camera controller — there is no input handling in the codebase at all. Inspect the world with the editor camera.
- The world is built once at boot: no chunk streaming or unloading yet.
- Two road issues remain: roadbed elevation can jump where two separate stretches of road pass close together, and road materials are only a coarse asphalt/dirt split.