Random Map Generation in RPG Maker MV & MZ
Random Map Generation in RPG Maker MV & MZ
The Meta Maze is a powerful tool for making a dungeon more interesting to explore. Maybe you have already set up your first dungeon and defined some objects, such as enemies or save points. And after some playtesting, you realized,…
The Static Map is a simple but sometimes handy feature. But because it’s simplified, it lacks certain functionalities such as exits to the next room and automatic Spawn Position for the player, which makes it challenging to combine this approach…
This tutorial is a direct follow-up to Let’s get more Variety… by using Switches!. You have already learned how to achieve more diversity by using Switches; now I want to show you one more thing: How do Templates work? The…
From the start, one of my most important goals was to provide tools you can use to generate diverse worlds as quickly as possible. On the other hand, with high flexibility sometimes comes complexity, which is why I wrote this…
This is the first article to give you some inspiration and tips to think outside the box. At this point, I assume you already know the basics and have set up your first generated map(s). It’s okay when you haven’t…
First of all, there’s no dedicated algorithm yet to create a village, but that doesn’t mean we cannot make one! Why is there still no algorithm for that? Because, other than creating a cave that is natural and hence random,…
Dear MV-users, at the moment this error is likely to occur. You can try this temporary workaround before I release an official patch by deleting some lines of code. In MK_RNGMaps_withSnippets.js please delete from .. until… In MK_RNGMaps_withoutSnippets.js please delete…
In this tutorial, we build our first random dungeon by using the „Snippets“-technique. Snippets The idea is to pre-define Snippets which this plugin will randomly connect to create appealing dungeons to explore. A snippet is a fundamental base element of…
At this time, there are 2 major Plugins to own templates: „withSnippets“ and „withoutSnippets“. I already made a small set of various templates that you can view, change, copy-paste, or you just create your own! A template’s name must be…
This plugin series does not persist generated maps. Instead, it uses a seedable PRNG. Every time you pass the same seed value to a command to generate a map, then the same map is generated again. We will use RPG…