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World Generator Documentation

Archway World Generator draws the world Archway imports: terrain, biomes, provinces and a territory hierarchy, exported as 16-bit heightmaps and CSV tables.

New to World Generator? Follow the four movements in order. They take you from an empty window to a set of files ready for Archway's movement II.

The window at startup: toolbar, panel on the left, map on the right — cliquer pour agrandirFig. 0.1

The journey

I — Generate

Generate

Find a seed, tune the noise, choose a projection and a resolution.

II — Sculpt

Sculpt

Paint elevation and biomes by hand, trace from an image.

III — Subdivide

Subdivide

Cut the map into provinces, then group them into territories.

IV — Export

Export

Write the heightmaps, the province map and the CSV tables.

The rest

• Discover — what the tool does, and how to install it
• Reference — interface, shortcuts, masks, files, glossary
• Troubleshooting — common failures and their fixes

The pipeline

Each stage reads the one before it. You can stop anywhere — a heightmap alone is a valid export — and go back without losing hand-made work.

Generate ──▶  Sculpt  ──▶  Subdivide ──▶  Export  ──▶  Archway
 noise         brush       provinces      16-bit PNG   movement II
 seed          stencil     territories    RAW, CSV     "Import"

The link with Archway

The files written by movement IV are exactly the ones Archway asks for in Preparing your first world: T_DefinitionMap, DT_Definitions, the heightmap. That is where the two tools meet.