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Need some programming help
I'm doing a map commission and I need some passable outlines of larger buildings which are more than just rectangles. There is a free piece of software called 'context free' which I think would allow one to make dozens of random shapes in a building-like form. Below are some examples I've taken from their gallery of the shapes it can generate.
The only problem is that I am not a natural coder. I suspect the code to produce black building silhouettes would not be difficult for someone who was used to writing code. I don't need the buildings to be organised in any particular way, I just need lots of buildings generated so I can pick the ones I like and drop them into photoshop.
Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance,
Ravs
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You are an absolute angel! Thank you so much and have lots of rep!
Thank you, thank you!
Ravs
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Most welcome. I found the exercise refreshing 
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That is uber cool. Guess I gotta download yet another must have tool.
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@Alfar. Now use the Thatch tutorial to generate textures at 90° to the building edges. And remember, some of those edges are curves.
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Alfar - thats superb. I have never looked at this context free but it looks neat for what you did with it. Rep heading your way.
Toff - you must have read my mind too. If there is a way to generate a height map for those shapes using some blur etc then the thatching script would sound like a great tool to get oodles of thatched or tiled buildings.
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That looks cool - well done. I didnt know how to get to that without writing a program to do it. Shall I try it in the thatcher. Gimme a while and ill see what it makes of it. Its similar to the last time I tried this sort of thing...
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Actually this has worked extremely well (Edit -- darn it, it really has done well. That shape burst is the business !). If only we could solve placing these shapes into a city bounded by walls and roads...
Nice little collaboration going on here eh ?
Right so do you want tiles, slates, woodblock - we have it all baby !
Last edited by Redrobes; 07-15-2009 at 07:52 PM.
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