u/rwhiffen

So I found out about this dungeon builder today: https://watabou.github.io/dungeon.html

Which makes random dungeons. There are others I've seen, but this one lets you download the JSON for it.

It has an array of rectangles:

 "rects": [
        {
            "x": 1,
            "y": -1,
            "w": 4,
            "h": 3
        },
        {
            "x": 2,
            "y": 3,
            "w": 3,
            "h": 4
        },

And an array of door locations, with some layout detail:

    "doors": [
        {
            "x": 0,
            "y": 0,
            "dir": {
                "x": 1,
                "y": 0
            },
            "type": 3
        },

My sample dungeon I was playing with also had an empty array of water tiles:

    "water": []
}

Which makes me wonder if there might be a programatic way to build a dungeonblock layout based on that data.

 "index": 1,
      "tiles": [
        {
          "x": 1,
          "y": 2,
          "orientation": 2,
          "element": "MT1-038"
        },
        {
          "x": 0,
          "orientation": 3,
          "y": 2,
          "element": "MT1-037"
        },

Is this a crazy thought or is there something worth digging into here? I'm not really a developer, but all the AI ads I get pushed say I should just be able to stay at a holiday inn express and crank it out.

Not sure I saw this in the last post about it but they're paving the gravel trail bypass. Probably started last week but I didn't ride on Friday. I wasn't sure how the gravel was going to hold up with the summer thunderstorms but looks like we'll have paved goodness for the near term.

I wonder if the north end is going to have a bunch of close calls with people going north cutting the turn short at speed and people going south swinging wide on the same turn.

So the A2L post with a plate full of blocks brought this question to mind.

How many blocks (esp. complicated/taller blocks) do folks generally print at once? I have this "print big, fail big" fear that keeps me from maximizing the build volume (not to mention long print times).

I've filled the bed with flat simple tiles (DB or XL-DB) but have had warping and or adhesion issues in the past scare me from maximizing the build plate. My last two plate falures were from filament globs on the hot end adhearing to the print and then the nozzle knocking the print off the plate causing a cascade effect.

Am I being too cautious not printing more than 4x4 of the tall or more detailed blocks?

https://preview.redd.it/sc05mzkwm00h1.jpg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1521f5f046ad44a06a87c04f877406253285c9a0

6 tiles by 7 layers (of flat/ground tiles, taller/bumpier excluded).

https://www.containerstore.com/s/closet/shoe-storage/our-mens-shoe-box/12d?productId=11000058

These list for $6 each and hold up to 42 tiles. Might be a cheap option for storing simple tiles. You can fit 6 layers if you put them in the XL grids - so you could in theory do 36 tiles and 36 grids in a single box.

There are 5 and 10 packs and there are some sales and coupon type shenanigans that can bring the price per unit down even more.