Talk:OBSIDIAN

RNG method
When this article was created yesterday, one of the Features listed was the different RNG from OBLIGE. I was curious what this was, so I looked into the GitHub repo, and it appears that Mersenne Twister was retired to the "attic" a few months ago and replaced by fastPRNG. (This means it's currently incorrectly stated in the Obsidian README file and thus this article is out-of-date too.)

At this point, I don't think it's worth listing as a feature, since either RNG is probably good enough randomness for this tool. But the new one being faster would make sense for less time to make maps.

(This is in contrast to the replacement of Carmack's very basic RNG for vanilla Doom with Mersenne Twister in ZDoom long ago. That's a big step up in terms of RNG quality worth noting in that article. Plus it's a popular source port, so it's fundamentally more significant.) --PhilthyPhilistine (talk) 19:59, 2 March 2022 (CST)