Symmetrical planets are getting there...

If you change the order, you can no longer guarantee there's a matching seed. And as Cola said above, it almost certainly won't exist.

You realise this is actually a description of exactly how it works currently? You have planet definition files, plus a seed = planet

But then how do you encode the numbers 45 and 67?

In any case, the "Similar Seeds" thread suggests that the random seed doesn't produce enough equidistant unique results to be even remotely capable of determining the abstract position of a particular object.

Oh thats looks just great also very very petty

I hope you guys also get around to the fabricator selection issue and unit formations and group moving.

It already looks perfect, Sorian.

Ooh I wanted to ask, is there going to be point symmetry too, or only north/south?

well see, now you're just showing off

I don't mind. :>

Looks great man, thanks.

Point symmetry please. Mirroring the planet is one way to do it, but is has distinct disadvantages. You will see as soon as you try with planets with larger natural obstacles, like water surfaces.

Or like in your screenshot: That mirrored chasm which suddenly spans half the planet...

Your feature placement algorithm (especially the constraints regarding spacing) still work with point symmetry (since features can't collide with themselves!), but it doesn't with mirroring.

Since you only need half as much planet geometry for this, will @varrak be able to cut memory usage in half for mirrored planets?

nice!

again one step at a time ...

There will be a matching seed, because:

nice.

lucky that it was well aligned then.

one day? the new soon?

The planet definition files + seed will output features in a specific order. Essentially, every different ordering of features is an entirely different planet that would need a different seed to match, even though it looks identical.

Edit: assuming you are working it out by reverse engineering the random generated sequence. You could match it via the actual output terrain, but then you are talking about generating every single possible planet to compare, and given the time it takes to generate just one, that's not at all feasible.

This makes me so, so happy. Not knowing how this is being done, I wonder if different levels of symmetry are possible, like 4 or 8 sections of the planet?