Re: Procedural Generation Question

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From: Ross Ridge
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2015 22:20

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Brian  <brian...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Hi, I know games like Minecraft that use procedural generation to
>generate the game worlds use a seed to determine the layout of the game
>world, but what determines how many areas are in each game world that
>gets generated?

In Minecraft, as I understand it, new areas (chunks) are automatically
added to the world as the player moves near them.

					Ross Ridge



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