Hero Extant: World Generator

This world generator uses fractal terrains and various simulations to generate highly detailed random map data. It is open-source and licensed under the GNU General Public License v3, with some sections also available under the MIT license (at your option).

There's a video and more screenshots and a Changelog and to-do list.

Updates will be announced at /r/hex/ (RSS).

This is a prototype; stay tuned for updates!

The last release was in 2010. I'm currently working on porting this to cross-platform C/OpenGL. Don't expect anything until 2015.

The world generator backend has been ported to Java by avh4 - thank you!

More screenshots:

Rendered Final Map

Terrain Types

Terrain Contiguity

Wind and Rain Simulation

Temperature Simulation

Experimental feature: using wind & rainfall data to render clouds.

Wallpapers:

Hero Extant Wallpaper, 1440x900 (2D landscape render).

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