Creating Ocean World with an island

[mauvebic]

Prompt as ever, I complained about that water level thing seven months ago As for the hacky bit I hope you recognize it, i got the idea from moonrealms' atmosphere code :-)

[paramat]

Early stages of a mod, just random islands for now viewtopic.php?id=8066

mauvebic, yep ... and i got that method from PilzAdam's pre-LVM nether mod.

[dgm5555]

Is there any way of reverse engineering the mapgen to figure out the seed required to generate a flat or island world, or perhaps a way of altering the height of the clouds? I'm getting a bit irritated by having clouds floating through my buildings?

[Amaz]

Is there any way of reverse engineering the mapgen to figure out the seed required to generate a flat or island world, or perhaps a way of altering the height of the clouds? I'm getting a bit irritated by having clouds floating through my buildings?

This could help if you set the top of the dirt to a low level (-500 or so): viewtopic.php?id=8952

[dgm5555]

This could help if you set the top of the dirt to a low level (-500 or so): viewtopic.php?id=8952

Thanks

And I just found this (with more detail and options in the post)...
viewtopic.php?p=138305#p138305

Make sure you have this line in your MINETEST_FOLDER/minetest.conf file:

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mg_flags = flat

Mind you, it will make all of your worlds start generating flat lands... [so] change it back afterward.

[paramat]

Add or edit this line in minetest.conf:
cloud_height = 120
EDIT

Is there any way of reverse engineering the mapgen to figure out the seed required to generate a flat or island world

Nope. Mapgen v6 can't generate a flat world or an island world, also its inherently impossible to generate seed from a desired noise.

[neoascetic]

Would you still be interested in a mod that creates a single island of chosen size in an 'infinite' sea? I'm getting interested, it's a nice idea, i think i can derive this easily from flatten mod.

Bump, I am interested in this.

[paramat]

LOL i never got around to it.
Perhaps you can work out how to customise my archipelago mod? currently 2D noise determines the areas lowered into the sea, replace that with a mathematical function based on distance from world centre, should be easy.

[paramat]

Line 191 https://github.com/paramat/archipelago/ ... t.lua#L191 'comfac' is 'compression factor' i think, that should be 1 within the island area and increase smoothly to roughly 24 in the surrounding ocean.
The mod will probably crash because it needs line 122 editing to:

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local chulens = {x=sidelen, y=sidelen, z=1}