Tracking issue: world generation about plantex HOT 8 CLOSED

We could implement the NoiseProvider trait for a wrapper type around OpenSimplex2, right? This would allow us to use the worldgen API. It's a bit sad that worldgen is limited to 2D noise functions. If we want to use OpenSimplex3 later, we had to use the noise API anyway...

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There's already an OpenSimplex noise implementation in Rust: https://github.com/bjz/noise-rs (sadly, no non-broken docs are hosted anywhere)

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Temporary docs for the noise crate: https://jonas-schievink.github.io/noise-rs/noise/index.html

The API isn't as nice as the worldgen crate API, but if it works it works.

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So apparently worldgen requires nightly Rust because it uses some syntax extension. Would be really nice if that was more obvious to see (other than compilation failing). Gonna use noise without it then...

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object placement http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/31724/how-can-you-procedurally-place-objects-in-a-non-gridded-game

http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/game-programming/polygon-map-generation/

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A nice biome diagram: http://w3.marietta.edu/%7Ebiol/biomes/biome_main.htm

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Okay so I'm playing around with using 3D noise for terrain generation instead of a 2D height map, and it's looking extremely interesting (unlike our 2D terrain, which was kinda boring).

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We weren't able to implement a few features, but most of this was done.

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