Testing 246: Creative Worlds!

[james]

@SephirothWS

They hadn’t responded to if there truly is a subset of colors that are specifically set aside to NOT generate. I still feel this is still the case regarding certain colors, … like Black Gleam. … I could be wrong, but there’s been no yay or nay on the subject whenever its been asked.

When you last asked this, here:

@SephirothWS

I would still like to know if its true that every single one of the 255 colors available for every single block CAN even show up. @james … As far as I know there’s preset palletes configured, but not sure if every single color can show up. Been inquiring about this, but the devs seem rather tight-lipped on the topic.

I did respond in the thread:

@james

There is no artificial limit on the colours that can be selected during the world generation.

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.

When I first setup the worldcolour configurations I generated over 500 worlds and confirmed that the recipes (across all the configurations) spat out over 200 colours each. Clearly, as described above because of the theming, some colours are selected more often. But I was happy, when looking at all the recipes together, that the system was generating lots of variation.

1. Explicitly stating there was no artificial limit.
2. Briefly explaining the process and why the selection varies.
3. Describing my testing to confirm variation.

Hope that clarifies the issue.