Testing 245: Sovereign Worlds!

[Kal-El]

@Gerentt

So if the perfect green or blue foliage was rolled by another user for their planet, you could then roll your own planet, and adjust the colors to Any known colors (including the green or blue foliage that the previous user just got) so the issues your describing I feel aren’t true? Unless I’m interpreting it wrong?

I think this is right but if your world type (Lush for example which is what most players will want if they are building) has some back end algorithm that will want to create earthlike colors and restricts certain bright colors then it is somewhat disingenuous of the developers to say that any color is possible if they are restricted by type of planet. If the algorithm are not going to be used on the Sovereign planets then all colors would be possible.

@james

Each world config uses a customised recipe for generating colours. This recipe contains many RNG inputs as the colours are evolved and selected. Some blocks have a high degree of variability, for example gleam, which is allowed to select any initial hue. Other block colours are evolved with normal or linear RNG ranges from parent block colours. Some relationships vary hue, luminance, and saturation independently. Some of the configs limit the hue range to try and make more thematically consistent worlds: umbris red-orange, rift blue-pink, blink green-yellow. Likewise Lush worlds attempt to create earthlike palettes where vegation is pulled to green, wood brown, rock grey, and liquids blue. This means that these worlds will have more consistent colour selections.