THE POPULATOR

[andrewj]

The Populator is a randomizer program for classic DOOM levels, i.e. it replaces the monsters and weapons in the level with new ones chosen at random. Unlike other randomizers, The Populator simulates the battles with the chosen monsters and gives you enough health and ammo to complete the level.  You can also customize the results by editing some fairly simple text files.

 

Background: I was working on this in late 2017, the original idea was a bit different, it was going to be a program for populating levels from scratch (i.e. ones without any monsters or items at all).  It formed part of a new random level generator, one program built the levels and this program would populate it.  So I got around 50% of the populator program done, then lost interest in it all.  Recently I thought that some people would still find a randomizer program useful, so I finished off the populator program and here it is :)

 

Website: https://gitlab.com/andwj/populate

 

Binary packages: https://gitlab.com/andwj/populate/tags/v0.666

 

[Doomkid]

This is awesome!

[SOSU]

^ I agree.

Also it's a good thing you never finished the "custom map populator" thing because then we'd have a big thread where people talk about the ethics of using it and uploading those maps onto idgames :D

[andrewj]

Thanks Doomkid and SOSU.

[soner du]

Currently testing SLIGE + Populator...

 

Globally very cool, except when a Cyberdemon is met in a corridor at the beginning of a level (and you really need a rocket launcher and places to hide)

 

I'm having fun anyways !

[eviltechno]

Thanks. Your work is awesome.