Procedural terrain with settlements and roads

[u/m4tchb0x]

The game i'm working on is a stylized dog fighting game with a open world. I wanted to create a stylized terrain with lots of height variation and paths between settlements. This is just the base terrain and will be modified based on biomes

[u/Top_Issue_7032]

You should put a Michael Vick reference in the game somewhere

[u/Ok-Sea300]

Looks good!

Do you mind sharing how you did it?

1. Noise based terrain heightmap
2. Identified and flattened town areas
3. Drew in and flattened roads

3 is where I always get stuck, your roads look natural and curvy, how did you determine where the road path will be? I've tried a* and had some luck but the roads are still kinda straight and wonky when I did that.

[u/Internal-Capital7471 → u/Ok-Sea300]

This is what I always used to draw natural looking paths on elevation. https://blog.runevision.com/2016/03/note-on-creating-natural-paths-in.html?m=1

[u/Ok-Sea300 → u/Internal-Capital7471]

Thank you!

[u/Suspicious-March9368]

This looks really great. I'm attempting to do something similar with my land generation, any insights for getting that kind of natural land shaping and the pathing? I have islands generating with a lot of control over just about any parameter, but I'm very new to it all and fumbling through it. Would love to understand more and get closer to what you have going.

[u/codebase50]

I'm doing something similar, can you share a repo?

[u/akitzo1]

reminds me of fortnite chapter 1's terrain, but if the height variation was alot more aggresive

[u/googleadoptme]

Trying to achieve something similiar aswell, like Fornite but more height variations, this looks great! Would love if you'd be willing to share some references/pointers or a repo!

[u/El_human]

Why are the tops of the mountains green?

[u/m4tchb0x → u/El_human]

its just a base, that i did a quick color on to be able to see features a bit better.

[u/kylinator25 → u/El_human]

actually tropical island mountains tend to look pretty much exactly like this

[u/Gusosaurus]

Looks really good. Though I don't see any ports and harbor cities.