Age of Empires Heaven is the premier Age of Empires site on the net. Using the Editor. Seed Map displays a random distribution of land. What I'm asking for, if it's possible, is to include the seed number of the random map in the objectives list when you're in game. Age of Empires II. Age of Kings Heaven: Your definite source for the latest news and information about Age of Empires II and the The Conquerors expansion pack. Maps (Age of Empires II) - Age of Empires Series Wiki. All maps in Age of Empires IIAcropolis. This is one of the new maps in ' The Forgotten ' expansion, the.

Check out Amit Patel's excellent article that I feel is kind of a quintessential resource for procedural generation of terrain. The key thing he does is use graph structure to model his terrain, not straight up noise maps (Perlin et al).

I won't embed his illustrations, but read the article, and I think you'll find it helpful to get you thinking about a different approach. If you are making a CIV/AOE type game, placement of resources will be important. You can't have key resources be too rare, or high value ones be too common. If you presume each polygon to be a zone with a given characteristic (see article's illustrations, it will make more sense), I could see assigning resources to each polygon based on some algorithm of your choosing. You can get pretty clever by making the resources in a polygon be statistically biased by the neighbors so that a forest next to a desert might be rare, but forest next to grassland more common for example. I create random map scripts for Age of Empires 2.

My is for the HD version. Trimble Feature Code Library Download- Download Last Version. If you're looking to understand how to create maps for Age of Empires 2, there is. Age of Empires uses an expert system, allowing scripts to write routines for the generation rules, which you can learn a lot from. As for regions, I imagine that would simply be a case of masking off areas and applying different scripts/routines to the masked areas accordingly.

You can easily see the generation rules of existing map scripts by opening them in a text editor. I write mine in Notepad.