PC Can you random Gen a world off a custom biome map? (PNG map)

[therealwhitesky]

I saw this trick on YouTube where you save a world, then go in and Photoshop the biome.png with the existing colors, then load back into your world and it's different.

I tried doing this, but the map was the same when I loaded it up (big square biome quadrants).

I also noticed, if you change the biome.png images in the data World folder for all the presets, random Gen will still keep producing the same maps roughly based on those presets. It seems that no matter the seed and settings I use, the bimoe structure is more or less the same.

Can I generate a map using my custom biome?

 

[therealwhitesky]

I am basically trying to generate a biome layout that is both more natural in its progression (snow and pine forest to the north, desert to the south), and more interesting and broken up. The templates the random gen seem to follow are either a big pinwheel shape of blocks, with one in the middle, or, the tiger stripe pattern. The problem with the Line mode is that the snow is always in the south, and cuts right through the middle of desert and wasteland, which doesn't seem right. You wouldn't step one foot out of snow and into desert sand.

 

[Riamus]

I saw this trick on YouTube where you save a world, then go in and Photoshop the biome.png with the existing colors, then load back into your world and it's different.

I tried doing this, but the map was the same when I loaded it up (big square biome quadrants).

I also noticed, if you change the biome.png images in the data World folder for all the presets, random Gen will still keep producing the same maps roughly based on those presets. It seems that no matter the seed and settings I use, the bimoe structure is more or less the same.

Can I generate a map using my custom biome?

You can't generate a map in RWG from a custom biome map.  However, you can change the biome map after generating the map.  Do *not* start a game until after you edit the biomes in Paint or Photoshop or Gimp or wherever.  Only after you make changes should you start a game.  And be sure you are using exactly the right colors for the biomes (the eyedropper tool will allow to select the colors from the biome map so you can get the right colors.