Automatic cave battlemaps

[RobA]

Since I wanted to post more, I have removed my threadjack from isomage's post and am following up here....

I tried to open an image location directly into gimp to run my script on it but gimp wouldn't play nice, I assume it doesn't like the url structure even though it is a well formatted png....

...so I created an .htaccess on my server with a little php script redirect that will take a url like this http://blahblah/cave_50.png and parse out the number and pass it as a parameter to your cgi script, also putting in a random seed each time...

Gimp likes that url structure, so I tossed in a "Use a random base from Isomage's website" along with a size slider to my script, and it will go out, pull in a random cave image and process it all in one step....

Not something I'll make public but it sure makes for a neat concept!

-Rob A>

[RobA]

So here is a "1-click" cave map from the script:

cave_30.png

Of course, it relies on having gimp, and both my server and isomage's server to be up and running to work, so not really a useful thing for most people

-Rob A>

[mmmmmpig]

1 click?

that is pretty darn tight

[Redrobes]

Theres gozzy's one too...
http://www.gozzys.com/caves/generate.php

but from the runs I made on both I think iso's is slightly better. You will have to have a pull down generator site menu... but that would then involve an extra click

[torstan]

Right. Now we just need to figure out what we need to do to/for Rob to get that code via pm

That's an awesome tool for use when players decide to go off piste.

[isomage]

Rob, I'm really impressed by your results, and if you can figure out a way to run your script as a web front-end to mine you'd be more than welcome to (although if this is any indication, you won't be needing my generator at all ). To assist, I've added a rewrite rule so you can generate images directly if you want to -- check your PMs.

Great work.