Tutorials

Random Map within the Meta Maze

In this article, we do a small Game Changer, a Maze within a Maze (Maze-ception), with the possibility to travel back to the Main Map. We will do secret underground ruins to explore beneath the Forest. In this example, the…

Main Exits and Inner Exits

This tutorial requires you to use the Meta Maze and to let Exits spawn via Decoration Map. When you want to visually enhance whether an exit leads to the next randomized map or actually lets the Player leave the dungeon,…

Meta Maze – Layouts

You can pick from these Layouts: Tower Given a height, the Plugin builds something tower-likely for you. The Player can move upwards and downwards. Grid Given a width and a height, the grid builds connections to every adjacent cell. Maze…

Meta Maze – Multiple Exits

All from our dungeons always had one entrance and one exit. Although it was possible to make more than one exit using some tricks, it was not well supported. Here the Meta Maze comes into play. This add-on sets up…

Respawn at Custom Position

In this tutorial we will transfer the Player out of the randomized area, but when he re-enters the Map, he will spawn at the exact position where he originally left the Map. For example, you can have a tent or…

API Reference

This page shows and explains every JavaScript Call method. Maze Generator / $DungeonGenerator While the Generator has been renamed into „Maze Generator“, the JS code is still „$dungeonGenerator“ for historical reasons. Every Call consists of Algorithms + Parameters Choose from…

Save Self-Switches

When using a Meta Maze, the Plugin will handle Self-Switches automatically for you, and you can skip this tutorial. However, you want to check out how to reset Self-Switches. The feature described in this article will memorize Self Switches, with…

Making Forests and Caves Part 4 – Eventing

In the last Part we finally made a generated Map, but there’s still one thing missing: Once on the Map, we cannot continue our journey. If not already done, let’s move the JavaScript Code or Plugin Call into a Common…

The great Overview

Inspired by the Game No Mans Sky, I’m working on methods to enable Randomly Generated Maps during Gameplay. This Plugin series for RPG Maker MV and MZ has been my greatest work ever since. There are multiple Plugins with different…

Making Forests and Caves Part 3 – Shadings, Bioms, and Paths

Our Map now looks quite okay, but still boring. Let’s try out some more functions! Shadings are usually used to draw areas of darker grass, dirt, or any other tile to gain bit more variety on the map. Bioms are…

Troubleshooting

In this article I try to collect all common mistakes, errors, and suggestions to solve them. If you have trouble with my Plugins but checked your project and all the tutorials, please turn off all other (yes, all other) Plugins…

Introduction

This Plugin is in Beta-Status! This Plugin series uses Noisemaps, an A* Search Algorithm, Minimum Spanning Trees, and other techniques to generate Maps. You set up various attributes, for instance how the floor should look like, if you want to…

Making Forests and Caves Part 1 – Noise Maps

In this tutorial we will use the Noise Map Generation to build forest and cave maps. To avoid overwhelming articles, this series is split into multiple articles. This Plugin provides various functions. Each function tries to imitate a work step…

Making Forests and Caves Part 2 – Structures and Decoration

Structures After completing the last tutorial, you may wonder what had happened with the walls. We will do them now! Let’s create a new Map, call it „Structures“ (or any other name) with the same Tileset that you selected in…

Gallery

Here you can find some Code Snippets to copy-paste into your project. If there are lines with a <– symbol in it, read the comment and then remove the arrow and the comment from your command. Mind adjusting variables! Classical…

Path in and outside the Map

Today we build a road which goes straight from the south to the north. This Tutorial is best combined with (Not) Persist Maps. Region IDs Setup This function can be used instead of „place Entrance / Exit“. Instead, we build…

Outer Snippets

I haven’t come up with a better name yet. Outer Snippets are snippets to replace the blank area around the dungeon with a set of alternative snippets. There are usually used on field maps, like roads, canyon or a forest.…

Create Specific Object X Times

In this topic, we handle scenarios in which you want some objects to be instantiated a specific number of times. This is useful when… You want to define more precisely how often loot chests, enemies, or points of interest should…

Seedable RNG

I recommend you to check out the Meta Maze first, as it already assists you a lot with this topic. If you want to set the RNG’s seed, you can do so by calling: If you want to use a…

Dungeons with large Areas

This tutorial focuses on another algorithm to generate dungeons: Those to create dungeons with large areas. Create more Snippets We need some new snippets to draw those dungeons. Those to draw large areas, including edges, corners, inner corners Those to…

Procedural Maze Generator – Starter Guide

Hi everyone, and welcome to this instruction to add randomly generated Dungeons in your RPG Maker project. As using this plugin is not plug-and-play as most other plugins out there, I recommend you to read every step carefully. I also…