Terrain Editing?

[Alpha]

Maybe in Species they could eventually add terrain editing ( such as creating mountains, seas, etc) like in Spore. anyway, it's just a suggestion to make the game more fun.

[sylverone]

I almost expect this one to be a given. It would certainly be great for setting up experiments. The ability to create impassable walls to cordon off creatures could be handy as part of this.

[Neovenator]

In the comments on the main blog, Qu said that the engine doesn't really do well with changing terrain mid-game, but walls are almost certainly going to be in at some point.

[sylverone]

Huh, okay. The terrain setup may be open to some changes though. Whatever Quasar does to fix the snowball effect once and for all may make the scenes more editable, or maybe not.

At the very least, a good pre-sim terrain editor capable of making good maps would be nice. In fact, it would be great if users could create maps in an abstract way that would let them make presets. Place a few points to represent high and low spots and let the algorithm fill in the terrain randomly between them, for instance. So if I want three islands with a different temperature and/or fertility level for each of them, I can set three mountain peaks (dots of high altitude) around and define three temperature/fertility zones (which would automatically get some internal variation based on the other settings in the sim, like temperature variance, and which would be interpolated between to create transitional areas if the options were set for that). Or something.