cave generation

[djtoon]

any one have a way to generate a cave from tiles?
im looking to make a random cave generator

[Crivens]

Personally I would look into voxels. Best cave demo I ever saw was with C code with voxels. Even allowed you to shoot tunnels through it and bits would fall down etc. Very nice. On the other hand I think Dark Basic had an old cave demo that would probably easily be converted.

Cheers

[djtoon]

i mean a 2d map of a cave a side view of tiles

[matchy]

Hmm...I'm actually working on a random 2d tiled cavern game at the moment.

Got any examples of what you mean of a cave? 

[Kitty Hello]

YES!! http://www.glbasic.com/forum/index.php?topic=1335.msg9559#msg9559 PeeJay's version worked fine for me. There's another one in the code snippets ,which I haven't tested.

[Ian Price]

I did a cave based game a couple of years ago for the Wiz - see HERE

Not sure if this is anything like what you are after, but it worked for my game and the scene is made up of tiles.

[Slydog]

You may find some ideas on the 'Procedural Content Generation Wiki':
http://pcg.wikidot.com/

They have a page dedicated to caves:
http://pcg.wikidot.com/pcg-algorithm:caves


You may be able to adapt a Perlin Noise algo to your needs.
Here's an algo I found in my bookmarks:
http://www.gutgames.com/post/Perlin-Noise.aspx

And this page generates decent looking caves, with caverns etc, a bit advanced tho:
http://accidentalnoise.sourceforge.net/minecraftworlds.html

[Hatonastick]

You may find some ideas on the 'Procedural Content Generation Wiki':
http://pcg.wikidot.com/

They have a page dedicated to caves:
http://pcg.wikidot.com/pcg-algorithm:caves


You may be able to adapt a Perlin Noise algo to your needs.
Here's an algo I found in my bookmarks:
http://www.gutgames.com/post/Perlin-Noise.aspx

And this page generates decent looking caves, with caverns etc, a bit advanced tho:
http://accidentalnoise.sourceforge.net/minecraftworlds.html

Some very interesting links there!

[matchy]

Minecraft 18 beta (Adventure update) has some interesting examples of generated 3D caverns as well as villages.