Planet Generation

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:38:31 +0000

Procedural Generation

Procedural generation is used in a variety of ways within games, with its most typical use being for terrain. As found in games like Minecraft, Valheim, etc. Before this project, I was playing Space Engineers, which features premade voxel planets that could be destroyed. So how hard could it be to procedurally generate entire planets?

So I looked into how procedural generation was done previously, and there’s this fantastic video by Henrik Kniberg who goes over how generation works in Minecraft ( link ). I used a lot of the techniques within this video to work on my own generation, with a lot of the effort being spent figuring out how to apply them to the spherical planets.

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Planet Generation

Procedural Generation