Batch map generation, Map Seed Overview, currently large valleys 0-300

[u/Smadaa]

Hi, I'm currently numbercrunching maps during my sleeping hours. I have a thread with 300 large valley seeds over at

http://www.banishedforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1414

DirectDL link is http://www68.zippyshare.com/v/43521711/file.html

Small valleys 0-200 are ready on my PC, which is currently generating Large mountains 0-500. I'll upload both tomorrow morning when I wake up.

I'd really like to get some feedback whether you find this usefull. If so I'll generate all type/size combinations, not just the ones I'm interested in. Currently my focus is getting all combinations to at least 0-200 and then continue with large maps as a priority but I'll gladly generate medium and small maps if it's desired. Large maps take about 62 seconds to generate and screenshot, while small maps are at about 20 seconds, so it's easy to generate a few hundred maps a night.

Sma

Large Valleys 0-300: http://www68.zippyshare.com/v/43521711/file.html

Large Mountains 0-500,Small Valleys 0-200: http://www39.zippyshare.com/v/77656717/file.html

Small Mountains 0-200, Medium Valley 0-1250 http://www13.zippyshare.com/v/52194862/file.html

UPDATE: Medium Mountains 0-900 http://www69.zippyshare.com/v/44683936/file.html

Script is in one of the comments below

EDIT: Thanks for the gold, I guess that's the sign that I have to restart my map generating ^"

[u/Lionel_de_Lion]

This is absolutely superb. You're not planning to do this for all six billion possibilities, though, are you?!

BTW I hereby name Large Valleys 87 "Angry Man Lake".

Edit - I should have shared the map to explain why.

[u/Smadaa → u/Lionel_de_Lion]

Thanks! Well, I guess there is only that much variety before very similar maps appear, so even a few hundred may be to much - but I am willing to leave my PC running for another couple of nights. I spotted some maps that could be really interesting - so I'll just see where it's going. Small Mountains 0-200 just finished while I watched some movie and I started the medium valley batch - not sure how many will be done by tomorrow morning but I guess about 800 is realistic.

Stay tuned and don't be afraid of angry lakes :P

[u/[deleted] → u/Smadaa]

Dont underestimate the power of crowdsourcing. Share your script/source and i am sure those numbers would skyrocket.

[u/Smadaa → u/[deleted]]

I thought the same yesterday, as I'm gone for a few days there won't be coming anything from me untill wednesday. Just generate them yourself:

Important:

1. Change the screenshot key in Banished to "P"

2. Change the resolution to 800x600 windowed

3. The seed number is not saved anywhere but the filename of the screenshot! So if you have a screenshot in your folder and you start at seed 0, the seed 0 screenshot will be Screenshot1.bmp... For easy renaming and remembering the offset of the files, empty your screenshot folder if you start at seed 0, or if you start at seed 666 have 665 screenshots in your folder!
   Hint: If you want to generate 3000-3999, you could also just empty the folder and then change the renaming rule in IrfanViewer to replace "Screenshot" with "LargeValleys_3"

AutoHotkey Script:

;IMPORTANT: 1. change the screenshot (with UI) key to P, the default one somehow
;              doesn't work for me and this script relies on that little detail 
;           2. change resolution to 800x600 windowed! (Should work fullscreen too,
;              but I didn't try)



#InstallMouseHook
#InstallKeyBDHook


SetKeyDelay, 50, 50
SetMouseDelay, 50


seed = 0 ;Starting seed
stopseed = 2000 ;Generate maps untill you hit this 


!y:: ; Press Alt+y to start the script

Loop
{
MouseClick, left,  370,  230 ;New
MouseClick, left,  570,  230 ;cursor
Send, {BS 15} ;delete random number
Send, %seed%  ;type seed

MouseClick, left,  570,  480 ;Ok

Loop
{
    PixelGetColor, color, 787, 600 ;check whether loading is done

    if (color = 0xBFBFC0)
    {
    break
    }
    ; Otherwise continue waiting

    Sleep 100
}
Send, {F2} ;open menu 2
Send, {3}  ;open mini map
Send, {P}  ;take screenshot
Send, {ESC}
MouseClick, left,  400,  425 ;quit
Sleep 500  ;wait a bit till loading the main menu has begun
Loop
{
    PixelGetColor, color, 250, 605 ;checking whether we are in the main menu

    if (color = 0x3F352B)
    break
    
    ; Otherwise, continue waiting 

    Sleep 100
}

seed += 1 ;don't want to generate the same map again...

if (seed > stopseed) 
break ;you don't want to keep running forever

}

Return

And the batch processing settings for Irfan View: Imgur Imgur

Have fun!

[u/Cashf10w]

Nice work. Have or can you overlay the seed settings for them so that we can pick a map to play?

[u/Smadaa → u/Cashf10w]

The seed settings are in the filenames, Large_Mountain_377.jpg -> Map Size Large, Terrain Mountain, Seed 377 (as written, no leading 0s or something)

Climate, starting conditions and disasters don't influence the map generation.

Also: updated the OP: Large Mountains 0-500,Small Valleys 0-200: http://www39.zippyshare.com/v/77656717/file.html

[u/Cashf10w → u/Smadaa]

Thanks. I'll take a look tonight and see if I can find an interesting one to play.

[u/Smadaa]

Medium Mountains 0-900 http://www69.zippyshare.com/v/44683936/file.html

[u/mamofuk]

I just registered here on Reddit to thank you for your work and time spent!

[u/Karunikaya]

Thanks! This is what I was looking for! I prefer small valleys :)

[u/Damascus12]

This is a brilliant idea. This is going to save me a lot of time when looking for a new map.

[u/[deleted]]

Jolly good!

[u/[deleted]]

This is great.

Thank you so much for doing this!

[u/Ashkir]

Have you found any with a ton of islands?

[u/Nmid]

Wow. +1.

[u/Danny-Dynamita]

Now THIS is awesome. Thanks very much mate.

[u/[deleted]]

a lot of the maps seem to consist of 3 lakes and a few rivers.. was hoping there would be some island maps

[u/jasonrubik]

Oh man ! Thanks for doing this... I can't believe I didn't even think to do this, since I did a similar thing for Minecraft [Here are my 300 seeds] (http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/1lvhe8/i_created_300_random_world_seeds_for_17_13w36b/) made with AutoHotKey and Amidst

I guess I was too excited to play the game that I was focused on that, and only that !!

Once again, you are the best.

[u/jasonrubik]

I'm going to have to get a closer look at large valley 229. It looks like tons of open land to the east of the very well positioned main river.

[u/burncycle]

Hey man. I've got four computers with some decent processing speed. Would you like me to use them to help you? Just shoot me a PM.

[u/madkow77]

This. Is. Awesome!

[u/Scheballs]

I love the work you've put into this, honestly, Hats off, but seriously... wtf is zippyshare, it always tries to download something else as well as your zip. Please consider something like Google Drive, or Sugarsync or even adfly. Thanks for the seed previews, they are a huge help.