fast-n 0.0.1

A fast noise library for game dev.

Fast_n is a fast and easy to use python library to generate noise. (It currently only supports perlin noise.)

Installation

Type pip install fast_n in your command prompt to install fast_n. If you do not have python installed, download it on the official website.

Use cases

Noise is very useful for anything procedural, being especially used for procedural world generation in video games. Fast_n is fast enough for most use cases.

Features

At the moment, only perlin noise is implemented but I'm sure I'll add more at some point, and I already plan on improving the speed of the noise generation by writing it in C rather than pure python.

How to use

Create a noise object, passing in a seed and some noise-dependant parameters, then call its Sample() method with x and y 2D coordinates to access the value at the given position.

This exemple shows how to draw perlin noise using PIL to handle the image stuff:

from fastn import noise
from PIL import Image

perlin = noise.PerlinNoise(23) # creates a PerlinNoise object with a seed of 23
img = Image.new("L", (128, 128)) # creates an image using only a grayscale channel
for y in range(128):
    for x in range(128):
        # with perlin noise you want to avoid only using integer coordinates 
        # because they always return the same value
        noiseValue = perlin.Sample(x / 32, y / 32)
        pixelBrightness = round((noiseValue * 0.5 + 0.5) * 255) # transforms the output from a [-1, 1] range to a [0, 255] range
        img.putpixel((x, y), pixelBrightness)
img.show() # opens the image in an image viewer

Credits

• Raouf: My perlin noise implementation is based on this blog post he made.