GIMP can make random world maps out of the box!

[RobA]

Following up on the random coastlines in this post I was going to make a GIMP script-fu *macro) to generate these automatically. Low and behold, there already are three built in to the GIMP! distribution. All of them generate coloured maps, however, and are available from the main GIMP window Xtns->Patterns->Land (shown). Also shown are the settings I used for the generated images, only changing the seed.

Note that these create an image, nothing needs to be done first. I (creatively) used seeds 0, 1, and 2 respectively.

-Rob A>

Now to modify/extend this to draw outlines as well!

[NeonKnight]

Looks cool! Wonder if there is a way to export that to Profantasy's Fractal Terrains and then to CC3?

[RPMiller]

Looks cool! Wonder if there is a way to export that to Profantasy's Fractal Terrains and then to CC3?

If you convert it to a gray scale you can use it in FT as a height map.

[Torq]

Man. Who knew? Thats great for quick continental maps. Thanks for an excellent find.

Torq

[ravells]

Wow! What a find!

Neon, I doubt that there's a way to export them into FT which uses height data to make its maps.

Ravs

[RPMiller]

See my post that I posted at the same time as yours.

[RobA]

The script-fu actually leaves the greyscale heightfield as a layer under the coloured one. You could just use that

But if you've already got FT, it can do this sort of stuff right out of the box, no?

I don't have FT, but random HF generation is pretty basic, even Wilbur does it (and much better than GIMP), and my understanding is that Wilbur was the start code fro a lot of FT.

-Rob A>

[NeonKnight]

The script-fu actually leaves the greyscale heightfield as a layer under the coloured one. You could just use that

But if you've already got FT, it can do this sort of stuff right out of the box, no?

I don't have FT, but random HF generation is pretty basic, even Wilbur does it (and much better than GIMP), and my understanding is that Wilbur was the start code fro a lot of FT.

-Rob A>

While FT can do this out of the box, the colors are more aligned to CC and not quite as pretty.

[Notsonoble]

For those running 2.6 it seems a lot of those scripts weren't sent with the binaries... here's the one I found... http://registry.gimp.org/node/8172

edit grr: this one actually creates a space view of a planet... I'll keep looking...

[RobA]

In most cases any one that creates a new image has been moved to the File>Create menu instead of the old xtns menu.

This happened as a part of adding an empty image window on startup.

-Rob A>