Better randomization in my DomScripts

[liga]

Hi,

I'm reading the readme.txt and the code of your randomization ... it's really great!

I hope people will start to prepare scenarios just like .ran files ...

thank you
Liga

Ps. does your avatar comes from the boardgames "greyhawk wars" ? It really looks like one of the units in the game ...

[Leif_-]

Originally posted by liga:
Ps. does your avatar comes from the boardgames "greyhawk wars" ? It really looks like one of the units in the game ...

No, it actually comes from a (real) Norwegian traffic sign - "Warning, Troll Crossing"

[Pocus]

I must say I'm impressed by the cleverness of your randomizer. have you started from scratch, or is the idea deriving from a known operating procedure?

pl means its a perl script? Do you plan to make a windows exe of your code?

[Leif_-]

Originally posted by Pocus:
I must say I'm impressed by the cleverness of your randomizer. have you started from scratch, or is the idea deriving from a known operating procedure?

pl means its a perl script? Do you plan to make a windows exe of your code?

A little of this, a little of that. The basic algorithm of the randomization process is pretty close to some pseudo-code Gandalf posted a while ago (although simplified in some areas and expanded in others) and the sets are basically standard mathematical sets with an added notation to handle weights. I guess the most important design-factor was the decision that things should be as configurable as possible - after that, things sort of took their own direction.

Yes, .pl means that it is a perl script (and there's also a couple of .pm files which are perl modules.) I'm afraid I'm not going to make an executable for windows (for one thing, I figure that most people that want to make use of the scripts will alter or adapt them to their own ends), but it's only a matter of installing perl and then writing "perl randomize_map.pl map_file.map ran_file.ran" to run it.

[Pocus]

ok, so if I would like to execute a perl script on my machine, what perl (&where) interpreter should I fetch?

[Leif_-]

Originally posted by Pocus:
ok, so if I would like to execute a perl script on my machine, what perl (&where) interpreter should I fetch?

Just download the most recent one from http://www.perl.org/

I must admit I've never installed it on windows, but it shouldn't be too hard. Ask your nearest windows guru if you need any help.

[Gandalf Parker]

Very nice. At first I wasnt sure if it was much different than downloading my code and pulling down yabasic to run it. But you have added some nice features in the .ran files.