Top 23 Procedural Open-Source Projects

• Nim

  347 16,079 9.9 Nim

  Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).

  

Project mention: 3 years of fulltime Rust game development, and why we're leaving Rust behind | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-26

• FastNoise

  57 2,561 7.7 Rust

  Fast Portable Noise Library - C# C++ C Java HLSL GLSL JavaScript Rust Go

Project mention: Using FastNoiseLite (or any GLSL library) in a shader. | /r/godot | 2023-07-07

If you go to the FastNoiseLite github you'll see there's a FastNoiseLite.glsl file, this file contains the entire library. So to use this in a shader we need to use the new shader #inlude preprocessor. In short, create a new ShaderInclude resource, paste the contents of the FastNoiseLite.glsl file into it and then simply #include it in your shader.

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• ProceduralToolkit

  2 2,429 0.0 C#

  Procedural generation library for Unity

  

• simplex-noise.js

  2 1,482 4.4 TypeScript

  A fast simplex noise implementation in Javascript / Typescript.

Project mention: Using simplex noises and a circular mask for map generation | /r/gamedev | 2023-05-10

This is the simplex lib I use in JS https://github.com/jwagner/simplex-noise.js

• GeoPattern

  1 1,254 3.1 Ruby

  Create beautiful generative geometric background images from a string.

• ring

  16 1,235 10.0 C

  Simple and flexible programming language for applications development (by ring-lang)

  

• SideFXLabs

  2 938 9.1 C++
  

Project mention: Trying to get Sidefx Labs installed in Uni and getting this Error, silly question but what's the fix? Where do I find the Launcher so it let's me update the Sidefx Labs toolset? | /r/Houdini | 2023-05-16

Best bet would be to try method 3 here https://github.com/sideeffects/SideFXLabs

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• SimpleHydrology

  11 571 1.3 C++

  Procedural Hydrology / River / Lake Simulation

Project mention: Relief-Shaded Procedural DEMs | /r/proceduralgeneration | 2023-05-31

This was generated using an erosion simulation (source-code: https://github.com/weigert/SimpleHydrology).

• polygonjs

  172 545 9.6 TypeScript

  node-based WebGL design tool

Project mention: On the importance to make games during the game engine's development | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-27

That's the path I took with Polygonjs ( https://polygonjs.com ), and a game I've just released ( https://polyreplay.com/minesweepertwist ), with more coming shortly.

But it didn't start like that. It only started as a tool I could use to deliver client projects, as I was trying to become a freelance for interactive 3D scenes for the web.

Project after project ( some examples here: https://polygon-lab.com/ ), I could improve Polygonjs. Then I found clients who would be interested enough to buy licenses, and would give valuable feedback which would help the project grow even more.

And a few clients asking for not just interactive sites, but also games. This pushed Polygonjs further, and after several games released, it definitely qualifies as a game engine.

So this is generally an advice I give to people who want to become freelancers. Build a tool that solves a problem in your space, as this gives you an edge, and you'll also get the chance to confront that tool to reality, which will help it - and you - grow. This becomes a virtuous circle very quickly.

• Goopt

  13 510 0.0 JavaScript

  🔍 Search Engine for a Procedural Simulation of the Web with GPT-3.

Project mention: Show HN: LLM-Generated Wikipedia | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-10-09

• territory

  2 329 0.0 C++

  3D rendered proc-gen world test. C++ homebrew voxel engine for agent-driven prodedural generation / world simulation

• chaos

  1 275 0.0 C

  The Chaos Programming Language (by chaos-lang)

  

• SpookyGhost

  3 268 4.0 C++

  A procedural sprite animation tool made with the nCine

  

• AwesomeHoudini

  3 256 6.9

  A collection of awesome Free/Open Source things regarding the SideFx Houdini ecosystem.

• VL.Fuse

  22 247 9.8 C#

  A library for visually programming on the GPU, built to enable rapid workflows and modular approaches to accelerated graphics, logic and computation.

  

Project mention: VVVV – A Hybrid Visual/Textual Development Environment | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-23

• Planet-Generator

  2 193 3.0 GDScript

  A procedural planet generator addon for Godot with terrain LOD.

• NodeToPython

  1 174 8.6 Python

  Convert Blender node groups to a Python add-on

Project mention: How do I code my custom node group in an add-on? | /r/blender | 2023-05-10

• sprator

  1 160 2.6 C++

  A GUI application to generate random sprites and export as icon.

• Sceelix

  1 133 0.0 C#

  A procedural generation software for automating 2D/3D content creation.

  

• FreakC

  8 128 0.0 Batchfile

  FreakC Programming Language - an experimental Batch-like language written in Batch which compiles to Batch

  

• zenv

  2 115 7.5 Python

  houdini hda tools focused on procedural modeling environments (by CorvaeOboro)

• surfacer

  1 86 0.0 GDScript

  AI and pathfinding for 2D-platformers in Godot.

  

• VNameGenerator

  2 86 7.4 Java

  A Java implementation of various procedural name generation algorithms, including combinatorial, consonant vowel, context-free grammar, and Markov chain.

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