Automatic Forester

[Fluesopp]

Mapping is funnier than writing? Heh.

I'll take a look on that idea. I might even rewrite the whole program now that I know it works.

If you are using netbeans, the Image folder must be placed in the project folder. If you are using eclipse, I don't know. Probably the same place.

[Ramah]

Ok, well I'll wait and see what you come up with then. No point in me trying to get my head around your code if you're just gonna go and rewrite it all on me.

I just downloaded Netbeans after you said that and I managed to get it to work in that. It was a different editor I was using before.
Well... I say I've got it to work but unless you included a different build in your source code to the one you used in your application then they are behaving very differently.
The amount of trees showing up on the screen is far fewer when run through the compiler, and they don't scale up to such a massive size.
Does the source code include the changes you made whilst trying to get the density to work?

[Ramah]

I had a play with the source code this evening and this is what I came up with...

The positions of the trees are more along the lines of a maximum density forest how I would do it. I gave each tree a random little jiggle so it wasn't too uniform but I would say it needs each tree jiggle to effect its neighbours too, so it will look less like a pattern.



One thing I can't seem to fix are those holes in the forest. I thought at first you had it randomly choosing whether to place a tree or not but upon investigation I believe its because the Tree0 image doesn't seem to work. I thought it may be because the count started at 1 but all my experiments to fix it failed.

I'll try rattling a few new brushes off for it tomorrow. To me it looks like they would be better with a hard edge so the program has no problem masking them off.

[Ascension]

I think the holes look nice...ya gotta have some open spaces so I'd have a white blank picture for my spacer. If you could set how many holes per hundred that you want then you could get rid of the holes or have a whole bunch of holes.

[Ramah]

I agree, Ascension. The holes do add to it and if they weren't there I would certainly want a random check to put a few holes like that in it. It's just bugging me as to why they are there. It's nice to understand something.
Anyway, until Fluesopp checks this out then I guess I won't know. Unless someone else with more Java knowledge than me checks it out.

Anyway... I just had another quick play with it before bed as I had a little brainwave on how to get rid of the obvious pattern without too much hassle.
I included a 4% random check on every tree placed along the x-axis and if it fired then that tree and all other after it move along an extra grid space.
I think this looks a lot nicer.



This, to me, with a change of the brushes, would already work amazingly well and will get some use. I'm really looking forward to seeing what else Fluesopp can do with it.