OBSIDIAN

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OBSIDIAN is a procedural random map generator developed by dashodanger and various other members as a community effort. It is a fork of the final version of OBLIGE that has two prominent differences: a new GUI for changing the tool's many settings and fully incorporating the older ObAddon project. The merger of ObAddon provided a large addition of visual assets and Lua code.

The first release of OBSIDIAN was in 2021. It currently has two versions: a stable beta and a newer build. The builds for Windows are provided at the GitHub repository, but official Linux builds are not yet provided.

Features

• 64 bit build
• 64 bit RNG
• UDMF support
• ZIP/PK3 output
• GUI customization and resizing
• "Surprise Me" total parameter randomization
• High level of fine tune customization of level parameters
• Substantial number of added prefabs, shape grammars and modules
• Vanilla Doom support (via modified SLUMP level gen)
• ObAddon content merged by default
• ZDBSP now the internal nodebuilder
• Optional REJECT lump building within ZDBSP
• Node building optional for ZDoom/GZDoom
• UDMF map generation option for ZDoom/GZDoom, Eternity Engine, and EDGE
• Patch by Simon-v for searching for .pk3 add-ons in both the install and user home directories
• Updated from Lua 5.1 to Lua 5.4, bringing performance and memory utilization improvements
• Strings allowed for seed input (numbers with no other characters still processed as numbers)
• New random number generator based on the Mersenne Twister Engine, with 64-bit seeds/numbers

External links

• Official repository at GitHub
• Wiki documentation at GitHub
• ZDoom forums thread