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Avoiding "Wonky" Edges On A ProcGen Floorplan
I'm currently working on a growth-based procgen algorithm for generating floorplans. However, there's one thing I keep banging my head against-- I can't seem to keep the rooms from generating in such a way that they have weird, non-rectangular edges.
A brief description of the algorithm:
\- There is a grid of quads, 20 x 20 in this example
\- There is a recursively generated floorplan, which subdivides itself into smaller and smaller rooms until it reaches a threshold and stops dividing
\- For each room, a seed is placed inside its parent area. Then, it attempts to grow in a rectangular fashion. This is managed using a priority queue, where the room that is most "unhappy" (furthest away from its desired ratio) grows first. Once no more rooms can grow in this manner, the rooms start trying to grow in an L-Shaped manner
\- Any gaps are filled by finding the nearest room and filling the gap with that color (not shown)
I know my problem lies within the L-shaped growth piece. Of course, the program is doing exactly what I told it to do-- Grow in an L-shaped manner. But how can I constrain L-shaped growth to stop these strange edges? I've been trying to think of different logic, but nothing very good so far.
So, how do I constrain L-shaped growth to remain vaguely rectangular? Any help much appreciated!
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