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    Greetings all,
    it's been forever since my last post. Finally after a long hiatus i have been able to spend a little time on map related projects. So here's a link to my random geomorph dungeon generator I have been working on.

    http://picastudio.com/random/geomorphs.php

    eventually I am think of combining this map generator with the dungeon room namer I built a while back:

    http://picastudio.com/random/dungeons.php

    would love to hear your thoughts, I know there are lots of these map and generators out there, but hopefully this one has its own merit too.

    muddle

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    Very nice. A few too many pillars for my tastes, but that's subjective. I was a little surprised to notice that you didn't keep everything connected. In most maps I looked at, there are at least a couple spots where two tiles connect to each other and nothing else. I think I'd like more tiles that were mostly, but not completely empty space, too, but I can't be sure of that unless I try it. Right now it looks just a bit too busy for me. One more thing... A dark background for the non-map portions would probably make things stand out alot better.

    Still, all in all it looks great!

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    Yes, i do agree with your feedback. I do like pillars, but because this was a simple test to see if the javascript code would even work I only added the minimum number of geomorphs, and most of those had pillars, so if I add more pillarless geomorphs it should even things out a bit. The disconnected rooms are generated by the formula I concocted to randomly assemble geomorphs. the formula is simple, and those disconnects are the "mistakes" in the formula. All the tiles are simply pencil sketches that were scanned, I am thinking that I would replace the tile sketches with more completed pixel-art style tiles. I am thinking of something that falls somewhere inbetween old-school video game rpg tiles and the tabletop rpg top-down perspective tiles and game-mats. attached is a completely unfinished example. I know this is all kinda goofy, but I am having fun not taking things to seriously. hence the pixel graphics approach.
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    you need more 'morphs, but you know that. love the pixelart style.
    >>< drow ><<

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    more pixel art style work... yes, more geomorphs soon hopefully
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    still working on this. here is the first geomorph with nearly finished pixel art. to the right in the small white box is the original scanned pencil sketch.
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    Looks nice, man. The color shifts on the floor tiles are very important to keep it all from looking monotonous, so good job there.
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    All,
    I have been working some more on this project and started to think about caves and caverns. Obviously cave walls are different than stonework walls. So I took a bit of a different approach to them. The attachment shows examples of both the Cavern walls and the dungeon stonework walls I am experimenting with. My question is: Do these work together ?(i.e. would they look out of place if shown on one map with both standard dungeon rooms and a few caverns as well? ) Your feedback is much appreciated!
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    The hues, tones, and linework have to be similar for it to work and I think these work great. Soooo...good job there, mate.
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    I think the true test would be too see how well they connect. Maybe if you could do up a cave that has only partly be smoothed other with stonework.

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