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I’m tired of terrain generation techniques that just involves noise.

People should really try to step up and make landforms that are modeled after tectonic activity and create biomes based on weather patterns and ocean current. The end result will be far more natural and realistic.



BTW in the next article the author goes into wind, evaporation, orographic rainfall, rivers, biomes. But not ocean current or tectonic activity.

There's a different blog series that does go into plate tectonics: https://frozenfractal.com/blog/2023/11/13/around-the-world-2...

Coincidentally Civ 7 just announced they're using plates with voronoi for their new map generator.


> The end result will be far more natural and realistic.

Sometimes that's what people want, and sometimes they want something they can control more strictly.


> The end result will be far more natural and realistic.

or infuriating because some small detail is not right causing all of the biomes to die off.


In Dwarf Fortress that's called !!fun!!




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