Please use http://github.com/noisemodeler/noisemodeler instead

An in-game procedural terrain and content generation framework.

Noise Modeler is a tool for designing noise-based functions through a flow-graph interface. The GUI application specializes in designing noise-based procedural heightmap terrains, but can be used to model other content as well, such as terrain for 2D games. A high-resolution real-time preview of the terrain is updated instantly as the terrain is edited.

Generated terrain models can be stored as procedural models consuming only a few kB of storage. Through the nmlib library library, models can be expanded by a game engine during run-time.

Johan Klokkhammer Helsing (johanhelsing@gmail.com)

You can get the current development version from the git repository (https://github.com/noisemodeler/noisemodeler).

There are several places to find documentation about Noise Modeler:

• The Noise Modeler Library documentation
• The Noise Modeler user's guide
• Master's thesis about Noise Modeler (will include link once it's available)
• This readme (contains brief build instructions and project overview)

• nmlib a C++ library, which allows creation, editing and evaluation of flow-graphs. Used by nmgui.
• nmgui a graphical flow-graph editor and terrain previewer.
• nmcli a command line tool to generate GLSL functions from nm.json files.
• test_nmlib unit tests for nmlib.
• test_nmgui unit tests for nmgui.
• dependencies header-only dependencies as git submodules.

• boost::signals2
• c++11 (tested with gcc 4.8)
• rapidjson (included as git submodule)

• nmlib
• boost::signals2
• Qt 5.2+
  • qtquick
  • qtquick-controls
  • svg
• c++11 (tested with gcc 4.8)

• googletest (only required for unit tests)

First, make sure you have all of the following dependencies installed:

• Qt 5.2+
• Qt-svg
• QtQuick Controls
• Boost
• gcc with C++11 support
• googletest (if building unit tests)

# Clone the repository.
git clone --recursive git@github.com:acelster/noise-terrain-gen.git 

# Create a build directory
mkdir build-noise-terrain-gen
cd build-noise-terrain-gen

# Build
qmake ../noise-terrain-gen
make

# Run
nmgui/nmgui

Noise Modeler is an open source project and needs your help growing and improving. Don't hesitate to contact us with suggestions or bug reports (https://github.com/noisemodeler/noisemodeler/issues).

If you have made any improvements, we will happily accept any pull requests submitted through GitHub.

Even if you are perfectly happy with the project and don't have any issues with it, we would appreciate to hear about it.