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Having it as a plugin doesn't guarantee that it's not going to be bundled by default. It's a lot easier to test a plugin system if you have actual plugins already. Regarding a UI, PyQt is a thing, so it shouldn't be out of the question for a plugin to have a UI. Mod Organizer 2 uses Python plugins and they can make PyQt GUIs - I'd know, as I've written most of them (and done a good chunk of work on the PyQt and C++ interop).

I've used both PySide and PyQt, I like both.

psi29a wrote: ↑04 Apr 2019, 17:06 The idea is to be able to support raw (8, 16, 32-bit signed and unsigned), PNG 8/16-bit greyscale and BMP (8, 32-bit) and converting that into a usable heightmap. It would be great to also dump the heightmap back out... maybe time to look at GDAL integration as well? GDAL supports way more formats.

Well, most of big game engines (UE4, Unity, CryEngine) supports heightmaps in PNG and RAW only, so maybe GDAL will be too much for OpenCS.
For example, heightmaps of the Earth in PNG can be downloaded here: https://terrain.party/

That's fine.. gdal has commandline tools for converting to and from different formats, including raw. I've written about using them in the forums, just search for gdal and raw

So if we just support raw (and specifying bitness and signed/unsigned) and PNG support, we should be good to go.

Yes, I saw that thread, pretty interesting! I did some experiments with GDAL too, but in Unity.
I think that good solution will be:

• TESAnnwyn (PNG, RAW) as core feature

• GDAL (more specific formats like GeoTIFF) as optional plugin. Especially if someone wants to recreate a post-nuclear America

Some sources about procedural object placement for unelsson's inspiration:

• GPU-Based Run-Time Procedural Placement in 'Horizon Zero Dawn'

• Procedural Foliage Tool in UE4

• World Cluster in Unigine

I added a scroll view and parameters for min and max z height. So now it should be possible to set some objects spawn only on land, or underwater. Also made some big optimizations... More could probably still be done.
https://imgur.com/a/qSv5NoI

I'm also interested of run-time procedural generation, but that requires a whole new layer for the engine, and probably lot of design that affects the development. It could be useful though for generating various ground-cover type objects, grasses, flowers, etc. Well, you got to have dreams...

Rebased the procgenreferencestool branch on latest master https://github.com/unelsson/openmw/tree ... rencestool .
- fixed quat rotations and height interpolations, so that generated objects now won't hover and may follow land shapes
- rebasing allows land editing features in this branch, as well as every other improvement that has been merged...

Can this feature generates grass based on the terrain type? Like instantaneous grass for Morrowind vanilla and mods?

Amenophis wrote: ↑16 Feb 2020, 20:49 Can this feature generates grass based on the terrain type? Like instantaneous grass for Morrowind vanilla and mods?

Yes, that's exactly what it's for. I mostly use it to generate forests, grass, random rocks etc. It probably takes a while to tune the settings to get best results though.

I <3 where this is going...