Minetest-WorldEditAdditions/worldeditadditions/lib/noise/params_apply_default.lua

56 lines
2.1 KiB
Lua
Raw Normal View History

local wea = worldeditadditions
--- Makes sure that the default settings are all present in the given params table.
-- This way not all params have to be specified by the user.
-- @param params table The params table generated from the user's input.
-- @return table A NEW table with all the missing properties filled in with the default values.
function worldeditadditions.noise.params_apply_default(params)
local params_default = {
-- How to apply the noise to the heightmap. Different values result in
-- different effects:
-- - The exact string "add": Noise values are added to each heightmap pixel.
-- - The exact string "multiply": Each heightmap pixel is multiplied by the corresponding noise value.
2021-07-06 00:08:36 +00:00
-- - A string in the form of digits followed, then the noise will is remapped from the range 0 - 1 to the range -1 - +1 and multiplied by this number / 2, and then for each pixel in the heightmap the corresponding noise value will be added to it.
apply = 5,
-- The backend noise algorithm to use
algorithm = "perlin",
-- Zooms in and out
scale = wea.Vector3.new(1, 1, 1),
-- Offset the generated noise by this vector.
offset = wea.Vector3.new(0, 0, 0),
-- Apply this exponent to the resulting noise value
exponent = 1,
-- Multiply the resulting noise value by this number. Changes the "strength" of the noise
multiply = 1,
-- Add this number to the resulting noise value
add = 0
-- The seed to generate the noise with. nil = randomly chosen
-- The perlin generator isn't currently seedable :-/
-- seed = nil
}
if not params[1] then params = { params } end
-- If params[1] is thing, this is a list of params
-- This might be a thing if we're dealing with multiple octaves
for i,params_el in ipairs(params) do
local default_copy = wea.table.shallowcopy(params_default)
-- Keyword support
for i, keyword in ipairs(wea.noise.engines.available) do
if params_el[keyword] ~= nil then
params_el.algorithm = keyword
end
end
-- Apply this table to fill in the gaps
wea.table.apply(
params_el,
default_copy
)
params[i] = default_copy
end
return params
end