The election ends in two days! Don't forget to vote!

Also, do we need the female tag when we have gender and no male?

Seems oddly specific

@Zxyrra welcome to the 21sr century

@dot_Sp0T ... I've been here for quite a while, thanks.

@Zxyrra Tags emerge organically as needs are seen by individual users. If there's been no questions that anyone thinks need to get tagged [male] then there shouldn't be such a tag just because there's a [female] tag.

Tagging gets curated when problems occur, not in anticipation of some future need or future problem.

I hope no one minds if I pin the election post

@JourneymanGeek i do

WHYYYYYYY

Ok, so let's build our world... worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/71724/…

Or VTC it, as you like....

And good morning/evening/afternoon/second breakfast to all.

@JoeBloggs - thanks for the implicit approval of my world-building question. It's appreciated.

@Pᴇᴛᴇ: It seems like a perfectly valid question to me. Is it possible to make a human habitable planet in 1000 years, yes/no.

@Pᴇᴛᴇ tell me when your question is elligible for bounties

@dot_Sp0T - when it doesn't get many good answers after a few days....

hey there @Zxyrra

@Shalvenay hola

@Zxyrra how're things going?

also, hey there @PatJ

Hey hey hey!

what's up?

Just got back from work, you?

@PatJ chillin' on a day off. wondering if you have any suggestions as to tooling for terrain gen and/or map making/tracking though

@Shalvenay Sorry don't have much. My main suggestion would be "use existing maps and tweak them to your needs".

ah. I want to snap out of my rut of RL-copycat(mostly North American) terrains in my worldbuilding

Morning peoples

hey there @James

Heya Shal

@Shalvenay Have you check out the cartographers guild site?

@James Good morning tribute.

@James I believe I poked my head that way once, but haven't been there in a while. mind linking it to me?

cartographersguild.com

Careful its a rabbit hole of cool stuff.

I've gotten lost in the content on the cartographers guild site...which is somewhat ironic I suppose.

haha

one thing I've noted is that they are relatively focused on individual maps, and not the more...integrated approach I want to go for

@Shalvenay give me a run down of what you are trying to do and I will see if I can help.

After I get back from lunch...

:D

@James alright -- basically, I'm working on a very promising candidate for a "standing" RPG campaign world I can keep on hand and pull out whenever I want to set campaigns in it

I have quite a bit of the note-taking done, but still need a land to work with if you will. I'm sticking to a single island for now in terms of actual mapping, though -- this is to keep things relatively self-contained for campaign purposes

what I'd like to have is something that's not just a disjoint set of maps, but has matching scale to it -- all the maps you get are nicely meshed together and nothing's too big or too small

it seems to me that that's more the province of a GIS tool than the disjoint approaches that the CG seems to favor for quite a bit of their stuff

however, to do such a thing, I need base terrain, in a digital form. my own efforts at terrain and hydrology have been clunky at best, and I am trying not to copycat any particular RL area here, hence why I want a good approach to randomized/algorithmic terrain and hydrology

I don't know much about hydrology, but random terrain is usually made with some sort of Perlin noise.

yeah -- Jasper's blog posts mentioned using it for medium-grain terrain features

@Shalvenay Sounds like what you want to do is a bit beyond me. I am not familiar/proficient with tools to create/randomize map making, though I do have a system I use to create free-hand maps.

@Shalvenay considered worldbuilder?

@DubberRucky hrm, link to the tool?

*I meant world machine

link to a tutorial that worked for me youtube.com/watch?v=5fmRKwdDdyM

basic edition download link world-machine.com/download.php

@Shalvenay thereare plenty more tutorials but it's a nice start if you want t go in relative depth (if I recall)

Is world machine free?

...because I don't already waste enough time

It's free.. .enough?

Theres a cost free version that was good enough for me.

...crap I was hoping you'd tell me it was really expensive.

I mean, the most expensive version is $1500

Happy now? I mean, you can probably waste your money faster by burning it or buying apple products.

@DubberRucky I would never buy apple products

@Green Get over here.

@james they just wurk

( in scorpion's voice )

So, the new semester started, I'll likely not be online that much anymore the next 3-4 months; wish you all the best and Ad Astra!

@dot_Sp0T May you learn a lot, during your next semester, and have a good time!

@dot_Sp0T Awwww...

@James Re worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/71650/627: I don't think you can change your close reason. You can remove your duplicate vote, but you wouldn't be able to vtc again.

@HDE226868 Hrmm...

thanks for letting me know

@James Guess a MOD should know that. starting screechy noises and music full of doubt

@PatJ Buuuuuuuuuurn

Its hot in here

:p

I'm just a drama addict. Why is there never any drama?

@PatJ I squash it

@James sob Whyyyyyyy?

@PatJ Mainly to spite you.

:D

Aaaah, feeling better already. Thank you for the fix.

Bwahahahaha, I don't need mod powers to support the expansion of my evil empire.

:-D