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* Are you gonna release the source under some open licence?
* Are you gonna release the source under some open licence?
--[[User:Drei000|drei000]] 11:53, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
--[[User:Drei000|drei000]] 11:53, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
:Hey :D I remember seeing your project in the Dev section; I'm a huge fan of cellular automata, and wish you luck. To answer your questions:
:* Yes, terrain is stored as an array of <code>double</code>s and then scaled to 0 - 255 for color mapping purposes, 128 being sea level.
:* The original implementation was in C, but for cleanliness I switched to C++ and abstracted the generation stuff into a Terrain class. To render graphics, I've also made a VBuf class -- a virtual framebuffer. Since it was very difficult for me to write directly to the framebuffer (which is in YUY2 format), a VBuf is an array of <code>u32</code>s in ARGB format (although A is unused). The VBuf is translated to YUY2 and copied to the real framebuffer every frame. In doing so, I've traded framerate for ease of development. (So there's plenty of room for optimization.)
:* Definitely. (I think it's required, actually, since I'm using the Wiiuse library. I'm not really sure.) That'll be up today or tomorrow.
:--[[User:Adb|Adb]] 19:27, 16 September 2008 (UTC)