Enjoy a very rough draft of place name generation complete with some awful fantasy placeholder names #fantasy #ttrpg #worldbuilding

New video out! This one is all about placing settlements on the map. Some new algorithm design in here that I'm really excited about. Things are looking a lot more lively now that we can start seeing where the cities would go. #worldbuilding #ttrpg #fantasy #maps

Working on settlement placement and yeah this is the part of the whole fantasy mapmaking software that I've wanted to get to the whole time. The dots are potential settlement locations and the rings are the radius around them they need to control to be viable. #fantasymaps #ttrpg #worldbuilding

Got another video out! This one is about biomes but also K-means clustering and the worldbuilding iceberg. Also from here on out we're switching to social geography so it's all cities and polities and trade routes and stuff, which I'm really excited about. #fantasy #maps #ttrpg

This week's video is all about adding lakes and rivers! Every possible error happened while recording this, so it took about half a dozen tries. I think the lakes and rivers are looking pretty solid, though. #fantasymaps #worldbuilding #ttrpg

Got inland lakes working! Took a really brute-force approach of finding inland low points and filling them up from there until precipitation plus evaporation didn't provide enough water to go any deeper. #fantasymaps #worldbuilding #ttrpg

In between videos I've been putting in some time fixing parts of the basic terrain map that had been bothering me (especially edge oceans and island generation) and it's still not perfect but this is way closer to what I'd originally envisioned. #fantasymaps #worldbuilding #ttrpg

This week's video is all about using real-world data to inform climate generation for a fantasy world. It turns out that temperatures are easy to model! Precipitation, not so much. #fantasymaps #worldbuilding #ttrpg

In this week's video, I get into the process of labelling features like mountains and islands. This is one of those steps that's going to make things way smoother further down the line for this project. Looking forward to hearing what people think of this! #fantasymaps #worldbuilding #ttrpg

Starting to feel more satisfied with terrain generation and the underlying magic layer #fantasymaps #worldbuilding #ttrpg

Put together another video! This one is about adding magic to a fantasy map. A lot of slime mould talk in here. #fantasy #worldbuilding #ttrpg #maps youtu.be/1oheH9b6hjs

The slime mould algorithm is working! I can generate interesting organic flows between magic sites. Very pleased with this. #fantasy #worldbuilding #ttrpg #maps

Trying to use slime mould growth algorithms to build ley lines that aren't just boring geodesics. So far I think this seems promising? Going to take some messing around with parameters though. #fantasy #worldbuilding #ttrpg #maps #cartography

Made a video to try to describe what I'm doing here with the map generation. I've never done any video editing (or video recording) before, and so this took about times as long to make as the underlying terrain generation code. Anyway, I'd be really grateful for any feedback on this.

Tweaked the coastlines for slightly more steepness and added more islands! It's subtle, but I'm really pleased with how this is looking. Here are some before and after comparisons: #fantasy #worldbuilding #ttrpg #maps

Finally graduated to some more realistically-built oceans! Very psyched with how this is turning out. #fantasy#worldbuilding #ttrpg

Building a gallery of coastline inspiration for fantasy maps and realizing that a lot of what makes a map look useful for fantasy worldbuilding goes way beyond what Perlin noise can accomplish.

I'm working on fantasy map generation software that builds hyperrealistic terrain, creates interesting and locally consistent placenames, and outputs everything as shapefiles for editing and overlaying. First step is Perlin noise terrain generation! #worldbuilding #ttrpg #fantasy