☢ Atomic Atlas ☢

🏛 ABOUT 🏛

Atomic Atlas is an open-source map generator for Dominions 6 that is designed to address the shortcomings of other map generators.

🏗 IMPROVEMENTS 🏗

• A simplified, minimal interface that takes up less screen space. The settings panel will house several tabs for all of the relevant data users need to change.
• Support for 1-9 planes.
• Nodes can be manually added, moved around, and deleted.
• Connections can be manually added and deleted.
• Runtime validation for maps to ensure bad data isn't being generated.
• Atomic Atlas uses dependency injection to keep systems decoupled properly with clear interfaces. The app uses a state machine to simplify its execution flow and there is a generic data loading system that it uses for handling nation data, strategy data, procedural province naming data, and any other serializable data.
• Modular software design means new custom map generation algorithms will be easy to add and use.
• Dominions 6 introduced a new map format: d6m. This allows the game to handle the rendering of map art, all the map generator has to do is output the province information in the d6m file.

🗺 ROADMAP 🗺

Work is underway on the map generator and several features are complete. Here is a mostly un-ordered list of features that need to be completed. Once all MVP features are complete, I can release a 1.0 version of this map generator.

🏅 Features For MVP 🏅

• Core architecture: Data loading
• Core architecture: Control inversion
• Core architecture: App state machine
• Core architecture: Manager classes
• Core architecture: Modular world generator system
• Core architecture: Camera controls (zoom, pan)
• Core architecture: Basic map editor tooling for province nodes
• Core architecture: Basic map editor tooling for province connections
• UI: Main HUD
• UI: Context menu for manual editor tools
• UI: Game settings menu
• UI: Generator settings menu
• Modular interface for configuring map generation
• Interactive node and connection generation
• A simple default map generation strategy that is configurable
• Province visualization with 2D generated meshes
• Visual representation of vertical and horizontal wrapped provinces
• Connection visualization with color coding
• .D6M file output
• .MAP file output

🏆 Advanced Features 🏆

• Runtime validation for manual editor tools to ensure users aren't creating bad data
• UI: Errors and warnings menu