= Textured Walls = I'm working on a tile based RPG. I had had some success using [http://jice.nospam.googlepages.com/basicdungeongeneration Dude's algoritm for random dungeons] and of course a [http://code.google.com/p/brianin3d-jaction/source/browse/trunk/apps/m69/js/MapM69.js second implementation] is always cleaner. Once the digger was working, the initial result was pretty fugly: /static/images/walls/plain.jane.png Next, I identified the different wall bits, and broken them down into 9 types of wall pieces: * up end * right end * left end * left * surround * left/up corner * down ending * top crossing * bottom corner /static/images/walls/so.much.blue.png You don't wanna know how long that took me to work out... it was brutal = Almost there = But.. I really wanted: * different sized walls: 48x48 is ok, but I don't want to be married to it * different wall thickness: my first walls looked really tall and skinny * textured walls: I picked my colors for contrast, but the real deal needs textures I wanted a way to generate wall tiles using the same '''floor''' tiles that are all over the place. I'm sure there is already something out there like [http://code.google.com/p/brianin3d-misc/source/browse/trunk/random/java/Walls.java this] already out there. It has a bunch of options(see below), but now I could take tiles like: /static/images/walls/wall.textures.png , run them through something like: ./Walls.java -x wall.textures.png -1 0,0 -2 1,0 -3 2,0 And produce: /static/images/walls/wallz.test.png To create: /static/images/walls/fatty.png = Getting it and Running it = mkdir /tmp/wallz cd ${_} wget http://brianin3d-misc.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/random/java/Walls.java wget http://brianin3d-demos.appspot.com/static/images/walls/wall.textures.png chmod 755 Walls.java ./Walls.java -x wall.textures.png -1 0,0 -2 1,0 -3 2,0 -f tada.png eog tada.png I hope someone gets some use out of it. [java] Walls [options] -f filename filename to save to : default is wallz.test.png -t thickness thickness of walls : default is 13 -s size size of tiles : default is 48x48 -x texture image to use for textures -1 column,row texture offset to use for 'top' -2 column,row texture offset to use for 'up' -3 column,row texture offset to use for 'left' The texture offsets (column,row) become (column*size,row*size) x,y offset into the image used for the textures = Protip = Sorry, not going to really explain this. * row 1: up end, right end, left end * row 2: left, surround, left/up corner * row 3: down ending, top crossing, bottom corner See the code method "this.classify"