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RandomMaps 3.0 Upgrade

This guide is for all of you who already have a project using Random Maps and want to upgrade to version 3.0. Version 3.0 comes with many changes to make your life easier! We estimate the duration of this procedure…

Minimap 3rd Party Plugin Support

Visustella, Yanfly When using Visustella Options Core or YEP, the Minimap may not appear automatically. Please follow these steps. This instruction is based on Visustella, but it should work for YEP as well. GALV Layers To render GALV Layers on…

Puzzles in the Meta Maze

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,…

Static Map in the Meta Maze

The Static Map is a simple but sometimes handy feature. Because it’s simplified, it lacks certain functionalities, such as exits to the next room and automatic spawn locations for the player, which makes it challenging to combine this approach with…

Let’s get more Variety… by understanding Map Setups and Templates

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…

Let’s get more Variety… by using Switches!

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…

Let’s… improve your Gameplay!

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…

Temporary Workaround „Visual mode is not available as the current value is malformed“

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…

Templates (Plugin Manager)

What the heck is a Template? A template is a collection of various parameters and rules that influence how the generator builds your maps. Examples of such rules are: Every template has a unique name to identify. We made a…

Seedable PRNG – Persisting your World

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, the same map is generated again. We will use Game Variables…

Let’s build… a Castle!

Space Map Design the Space Map as shown below: This setup has 5 rows. From top to bottom: The third and fourth rows are pairs! The plugin will always only draw the wall tile directly on top of a floor…

Let’s build… a Worldmap!

In this tutorial, we will build a world map! We will not use snippets. There’s a dedicated algorithm to generate such a map, and there are a lot of functions that we will use as well. Space Map Create a…

Map Generation without using Snippets

Post Processing

This plugin series lets algorithms generate a skeleton first and then provides a set of functions to beautify it step-by-step to get a whole map. This so-called post-processing is independent of the chosen algorithm – in other words: you can…

Algorithms

RNGMaps provides a lot of algorithms with many variants and parameters. This page presents all of them, including links and cheat sheets. Algorithms using Snippets Prim’s Maze Algorithm Random Walk Rooms and Corridors This algorithm draws some rooms at randomly…