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Re: Randomly-generated maps?
Posted By: Claude Errera <errera@bungie.org>Date: 11/4/99 10:32 p.m.

In Response To: Randomly-generated maps? (Loren Petrich)

[randomly generated levels]

> I've *never* seen that feature in more recent 3D games, however.

[more snips]

> However, it would be an interesting challenge to write a
> random-map generator for (for example) Marathon or Quake,
> especially one that is not limited to a square grid. Does anyone
> here care to take up the challenge? It might make an interesting
> computer-science project :-)

My memory is hazy, and the link doesn't work any more:

http://imlab9.landarch.uiuc.edu/~ken/marathon/

But I'm pretty sure Ken had been working on an automatic map generator... I can't remember now. It seems to me it was a thesis project for an ai class, or something. Someone with a better memory (or better archives) than me might be able to flesh this out. Hamish?

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Replies:

Automapping?Loren Petrich 11/3/99 8:09 p.m.
     Re: Automapping?Nathan 11/3/99 9:32 p.m.
           Re: Automapping?Jägermeister 11/4/99 12:22 a.m.
                 (En)Trail blazingDispatcher 11/4/99 9:17 p.m.
           Re: Automapping?Ben Schodek 11/4/99 3:13 p.m.
                 Randomly Generated Maps and the "Whole Halo"Nathan 11/4/99 3:24 p.m.
                 Randomly-generated maps?Loren Petrich 11/4/99 5:14 p.m.
                       Re: Randomly-generated maps?Claude Errera 11/4/99 10:32 p.m.
                             Re: Randomly-generated maps Marathon?Dispatcher 11/5/99 11:08 a.m.
                             Re: Randomly-generated maps?Hamish Sinclair 11/5/99 1:30 p.m.
                       Re: Randomly-generated maps?Butcher 11/5/99 12:55 a.m.



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