So what Dinos do procedurally generated Arks contain?

[Raze]

Do they only contain the basegame stuff or also some of the DLC-Stuff, like Ragnarok does it? Can you specify that in the settings? I didnt even know about this feature until a few mins ago!

[Ricky]

its pretty much forgotten project by the devs. if you try host a dedicated server it does not work and i've tried to contact the devs multiple times without any word, single player and client hosted works still. if you search for servers with PGark you'll find none. i wouldnt bother with it due to its lack of support.

[Grimmrog_SIG]

and thats very sad, a good Map generator would be amazing. Nothing is more nice than exploring an unknown map.

[TheJebblue]

Originally posted by Grimmrog_SIG:

and thats very sad, a good Map generator would be amazing. Nothing is more nice than exploring an unknown map.

Agreed.

[Thord]

As far as I can see these are missing. The swamp biome was never added and no caves which explains some. They can all be added by editing the game.ini file (see Wiki).

Quetzal
Beaver
Dung Beatle
Achatina (snail)
Araneo (Spider)
Archaeopteryx
Arthropluera
Beelzebufo
Brontosaurus
Giant Bee
Gigantopithecus
Hesperornis
Kairuku
Titanosaur

[TheJebblue]

Originally posted by ThordTV:

As far as I can see these are missing. The swamp biome was never added and no caves which explains some. They can all be added by editing the game.ini file (see Wiki).

Quetzal
Beaver
Dung Beatle
Achatina (snail)
Araneo (Spider)
Archaeopteryx
Arthropluera
Beelzebufo
Brontosaurus
Giant Bee
Gigantopithecus
Hesperornis
Kairuku
Titanosaur

There are Quetzals in mine, haven't checked the others.

[Thord]

Interesting. I had to edit my game.ini to get Quetzals. I will go back to the Dev kit to check that out. Thanks.

[TheJebblue]

Originally posted by ThordTV:

Interesting. I had to edit my game.ini to get Quetzals. I will go back to the Dev kit to check that out. Thanks.

I'm wondering now if I spawned my Quetz in for touring my procedural ARK.

Edit: Actually I think that's what I did. Sorry and thanks for pointing out they left all that stuff out. I wonder why they left them out? Ran out of resources to debug I guess, maybe not enough people were asking for procedural ARKs, probably not a thing the ARK type player wants. Exploring.

[TheJebblue]

Here are some pics of my procedural ARK:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1290471969
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1290471917
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1290471872
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1290471821
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1290471769
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1290471615
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1290471555
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1290471446

[Thord]

Looks great. What have you set your Erosion and Turbulence at?

[TheJebblue]

Originally posted by ThordTV:

Looks great. What have you set your Erosion and Turbulence at?

Hmm, I found those in the overall game.ini, it seems they jam everything for all maps into the one game.ini? I think these are just for my JebblueIsland map shown above (I think I used an Island template when I created it maybe?):

PGMapName=JebblueIsland
PGTerrainPropertiesString=MapSeed=999;LandscapeRadius=1.0;Water Frequency=5.0;Mountains Frequency=12.0;Mountains Slope=1.8;MountainsHeight=1.25;Turbulence Power=0.0125;Shore Slope=1.0;WaterLevel=-0.72;GrassDensity=1.0;JungleGrassDensity=0.02;ErosionSteps=4;TreesGroundSlopeAccuracy=0.5;DepositionStrength=0.5;ErosionStrength=0.75;OceanFloorLevel=-1.0;SnowBiomeSize=0.3;RWBiomeSize=0.075;MountainBiomeStart=-0.55;MountainsTreeDensity=0.01;JungleBiomeStart=-0.65;IslandBorderCurveExp=4.0;MaxSawnPointHeight=0.1;SnowGrassDensity=0.25;MountainGrassDensity=0.05;SnowMountainGrassDensity=0.15;UnderwaterObjectsDensity=0.5;SnowMountainsTreeDensity=0.01;TreeDensity=0.003;JungleTreeDensity=0.66;RedWoodTreeDensity=0.35;SnowTreeDensity=1.0;RedwoodGrassDensity=0.1;ShoreTreeDensity=0.05;SnowShoreTreeDensity=0.025;DeepWaterBiomesDepth=-0.24;InlandWaterObjectsDensity=0.5;ShorelineStartOffset=0.01;ShorelineThickness=0.0015;MountainGeneralTreesPercent=0.1;TerrainScaleMultiplier=(X=1.0f,Y=1.0f,Z=1.0f);SnowBiomeLocation=(X=0.2f,Y=0.2f);RWForestBiomeLocation=(X=0.5f,Y=0.5f);NorthRegion1Start=(X=0.25f,Y=0.0f);NorthRegion1End=(X=0.416f,Y=0.5f);NorthRegion2Start=(X=0.416f,Y=0.0f);NorthRegion2End=(X=0.582f,Y=0.5f);NorthRegion3Start=(X=0.582f,Y=0.0f);NorthRegion3End=(X=0.75f,Y=0.5f);SouthRegion1Start=(X=0.25f,Y=0.5f);SouthRegion1End=(X=0.416f,Y=1.0f);SouthRegion2Start=(X=0.416f,Y=0.5f);SouthRegion2End=(X=0.582f,Y=1.0f);SouthRegion3Start=(X=0.582f,Y=0.5f);SouthRegion3End=(X=0.75f,Y=1.0f);EastRegion1Start=(X=0.75f,Y=0.0f);EastRegion1End=(X=1.0f,Y=0.333f);EastRegion2Start=(X=0.75f,Y=0.333f);EastRegion2End=(X=1.0f,Y=0.666f);EastRegion3Start=(X=0.75f,Y=0.666f);EastRegion3End=(X=1.0f,Y=1.0f);WestRegion1Start=(X=0.0f,Y=0.0f);WestRegion1End=(X=0.25f,Y=0.333f);WestRegion2Start=(X=0.0f,Y=0.333f);WestRegion2End=(X=0.25f,Y=0.666f);WestRegion3Start=(X=0.0f,Y=0.666f);WestRegion3End=(X=0.25f,Y=1.0f)
PGFavorites=UNUSED;UNUSED;UNUSED;UNUSED;UNUSED;UNUSED;UNUSED;UNUSED;UNUSED;UNUSED;

[TheJebblue]

If the ARK devs don't want to include the same dinos as the other ARK maps, I kinda wish they would just remove the procedural ARK feature since it's only half-assed supported.

[Jarmuz]

I wish they would actually improve upon it. It is a feature that can generate much more potential replayability. See other games with random maps like Minecraft, Terraria or Starbound. The fact that you never know what you will find is what makes random maps so amazing. I hope they develop it further

[TheJebblue]

Originally posted by Smokamrok:

I wish they would actually improve upon it. It is a feature that can generate much more potential replayability. See other games with random maps like Minecraft, Terraria or Starbound. The fact that you never know what you will find is what makes random maps so amazing. I hope they develop it further

Agreed Smokamrok! Execellent examples too.

[Thord]

The first video in this playlist is about some of the Parameters used when creating a map.
The second and thirs videos show how to change the spawns to whatever you want.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaJ0AmLizZY7rThiivINZ8spDueEQvbUD

[Red Eagle LXIX]

Originally posted by ThordTV:

The first video in this playlist is about some of the Parameters used when creating a map.
The second and thirs videos show how to change the spawns to whatever you want.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaJ0AmLizZY7rThiivINZ8spDueEQvbUD

Thanks mate. This will come in handy next time I give Ark a run.