Island Survival

Things I Implemented

Entire seeded procedural terrain system, including biomes and object spawning
Majority of LAN multiplayer system
Fuel pickup system
Main menu and lobby UI elements
Performance Profiling and Optimizations

Created as a second-year project, my goal with the terrain generation was to develop a highly customizable and reusable system that would speed up the development of future projects. This required thorough foresight to ensure the creation of a modular system which would be easy to use within the editor.

Editor Settings for the Terrain

The settings for the base terrain

The list of biome blueprints to use during terrain generation

The specific settings available for each biome blueprint

Through the use of various equations, all centred around Perlin noise the height of each vertex of the base plane mesh gets offset on the y axis based on some underlying values set in the editor. Then, using Voronoi noise, each island and water body has biomes and meshes overlayed over the specified vertices, along with some further height offsets to give more uniqueness to each biome.

Along with this I was a main developer on the multiplayer system which required many optimization stages to ensure lag, largely due to unnecessary replications of the AI, could be reduced. Due to the terrains high network cost, it was decided that only the vital information, specifically its seed, would be sent to client’s machines so that they could all independently generate the same terrain.