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Here's how I define the population of a planet. Each "Proportion" n...

The Code Zone Bargain Basement Blog · April 10, 2019 · 1 min read

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Here's how I define the population of a planet. Each "Proportion" number represents how much of the whole the character takes up. So an "EnemyBlob2" with an 8 is 8 times more likely to appear than an "ItemRevealCave" with a 1.

So at runtime I just add up all the numbers, pick a random in that range, and grab whatever lives in that part of the range. #GameDevelopment

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