creating a maze

Unity Engine
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I have been thinking about different ways I can generate a maze during run time and I had an idea and was wondering if it was possible using unity…

my idea was to have the maze as a texture and attach it to the plane and read the texture as an array and everywhere there is a line I would instantiate a cube… can that be done? and is so, where would I save the file and would it be saved as a text file or texture?

any help would be great :slight_smile:

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Um… Ever heard of Heightmaps? Try using those instead Unity3D has those built in. :wink:

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I don’t see how heightmaps have anything to do with the question. Anyway, I think this might get you started with making a maze from an array. It uses a text file rather than a texture.

–Eric

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@Eric
He said he wanted to generate the maze out of an image or text file, he could use heightmaps to generate it out of an image.

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If you mean randomly, I’ve been doing a bit with that. It’s pretty hard, because you would need to set up a double/triple (2d/3d) while statement, and than check if it’s compatible. My code is more for a 2d platformer, but I code post it if you want. You might get a solveable maze out of it once every few times, since now it’s just random, no logic at all.

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if you would like i can try to help. (check your PMs)

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thanks for all the help guys! :slight_smile:

i’ll look into the heightMaps and see if that could work and the thread that was posted really helped (that was kinda the idea i was going for).

as for making mazes using 3d and 2d arrays - i actually have a program that i’ve written in c++ that generates a solvable maze using a 2d arrays of cells where each cell has a right and bottom wall and using disjoint sets the maze is created. i thought about translating it to c# but it turned out to be a little more complex than i thought so i opted for creating a maze using a text file…

i’ll let you know how it goes :slight_smile: i still need to work a few things with how the maze itself works before i start generating new levels but all of you gave me a lot more to think about, so thanks again!