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hi there i am trying to understand how to use this program. i need to know the steps from the ground up. i have mingw i dont have any idea what it is or what it does. i know it somehow allows you to use the files in the planet.zip download. but i'm lost. i can't find info anywhere on specifically where and how to start using planet.

please help me

You have to compile planet from source, then run it from a command line.

He knows that. He doesn't know *how* to do it. I use cygwin, so I can't help with Mingw.

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that was literally the most confusing thing i've ever read. i don't understand how this can be so complicated. why would you want to go through all that trouble just to make a simple fractal terrain generator? is it better somehow? does it make the terrain look more realistic?

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john Van Vliet wrote:daerokos that is because it was not wrote to run on a Microsoft Operating System

To run on windows it had to be ported


and frankly it is WAY easier to install a Linux OS than use set up MinGW

the old Windows build dose run on win7 premium 64 bit
and using windows cmd.exe

read the README and copy/past the examples into MS's terminal

there is NO gui
it is TEXT only

i realize that. i ran cmd.exe before and put in the example. it just said it didnt know what the hell i was trying to make it do. plus i downloaded that link you posted of the "old" version or whatever, and it had an exe file in it so i loaded it up and it just opened cmd.exe again and after a few seconds the command prompt started blurting a lonnnng list of random characters and made my computer beep for each character and it almost froze up.

is this program like really great or something? why go through all this trouble to make a planet map?