Utility: SemiRandom project beta release / announcement...

[Gandalf Parker]

Agrajag said:
If you are really lazy I can send over some C code I wrote that randomly generates words that sound right

I might be interested in that. I might use it as it is, or convert it to the languages we are using.

[Agrajag]

Don't get your hopes up too high, its a very simple program I wrote a long long time ago (the original version I can find is 27/03/2005).
The really cool part is that it generates letters according to adjusted probability of appearing in the english language, and that it is seperated into a/e/i/o/u and the rest of the letters, so it is easy to ensure you get a pronounceable word.
To generate words from those letters it just selects randomly from 3 word templates (aba,bab,abb), though more templates should be simple to add (baabaa and baabbaab are possible, but dangerous, but you could also go bababbabbabababbbaa etc.)

Everyone can view it over Here.
Also, I'd like to hear what people think about this ancient piece of code, even if its just saying it sucks or just isn't useful. If people like it I might make some cool improvements for fun (more templates, perhaps the ability to add templates, maybe generating into .txt files, maybe some sort of filtering etc.)

[Ballbarian]

Working on a simple VB front end. It is now able to run the dom3 random map generator with user defined options supported by dom3's command line switches. After that is complete, SR can be executed on the generated map file and will then exit.

[Gandalf Parker]

Cool. Are you going to include the map options that are in the switches but not in the in-game tool?

[Ballbarian]

Yes.
Here's the screen shot that I posted with my bug report in the bug thread:

[Gandalf Parker]

Looks good.
And its not a switch but you might look at adding the commands for the color that displays the text names, and the default zoom, and wraparound.

[Ballbarian]

I had not considered that, but I will. Excellent idea.