no worries, and don't worry about deleting it - it's always good to have a record of a bug and how it came about, even if resolved. You never know when they might pop up again

Deleted my previous comment as the relevant bug was patched! Thanks Luz!

hey all, new update for the mod:

-Reduced across all relevant islands the tile spawn-rates of lava tiles that have large light sources. This should improve frame rates for all islands with lava tiles. The issue was related to the huge size of the light sources and the shadow calculations resulting from that, I believe (the shadows were cast almost across the whole 6-8km island, including out to sea).
-Fixed several cases of island-generation failure.
-Stress tested island generation - aside from any extremely rare edge cases, I think I've nixed any situations where islands would fail to spawn.

Apologies for taking so long for this update, moved house plus there were some strange issues in the biome generation I had to research before I could properly fix.

Hi Luz, I've been having some issues where the enemy turrets and vehicles seem to be underground and I've had to go into the savegame and then change their coords, otherwise they are unkillable. Could you possible adjust the mod so this does not happen?

ah, it's likely spawning to many lava objects for the GPU to handle, they all are a single light source - should be updated either today or tomorrow

@Luz sundered i think 5-6 pic. in workshop

what kind of island terrain is it (grass, snow, lava)?

@Luz the new type of island is very demanding on the gpu, my 1050 works fine on max settings but when I look at this new island there is a slideshow even the minimum settings do not help, maybe it's because of the effects themselves, it would be nice if you could optimize it (turn off the effects or reduce craters, etc.)

Version 2.0 Major Update

-Refined all generation parameters using the new developer editors. Terrain should appear smoother and be more readable and understandable in the variety of view modes in map screens.
-The above refinement should improve AI vehicle pathfinding on some of the more complex and larger varieties of islands.
-Trees have returned.
-added new island type - sundered! These islands have been damaged by the planet-destroying attempts taking place. These islands serve as a physical representation of the damage slowly being done.

Version 1.3 Major Update

-Fixed: All biomes/islands should now spawn without any issues
-Fixed: Home islands should spawn without any issues
-Fixed: Massively increased stability and performance - games should generate a rate comparable to an unmodified game.

-Update: increased large-scale features present on islands, whilst still maintaining smaller details.
-Update: increased island size in some cases (16km islands may sometimes appear!).

-Issue: islands further away from spawn point may take a few moments to a few minutes to appear on maps. They *have* spawned, the map is just taking it's time loading in fully.

hey all, just checked, mod still works in current version.

Of note, initial island may or not may not spawn, but barge and warehouse functionality are still fully preserved. I'm still working through ways to further improve and adapt islands, though my focus will be lessened on this mod.

TLDR: Mod is still being worked on, and is up to date.

sorry for delay in reply @moabkilr45
I can take up to about 5 mins, depending on hardware.
Any longer than that might be some kind of issue in the generation or settings - what settings are you running with/? (multiplayer, island count, island difficulty etc)

How long should it take for the map to load? (I've Been waiting a while)

These islands look and play really nice!

I'll play this soon. It looks a -lot- better than my attempt at islands now, well done and thanks for continuing to work on it!

yeah, need to work on that, haven't had time though - been more focused on testing multi-biome islands ;)

This is ever so cool! You should add some more screenshots

Update;
Fixed - an issue where trees would spawn in the thousands in small clumps on some islands

This is an update to my long-previous island size mod. It maintains biome differences, but the biggest change is a softening/flattening of land, the reduction/removal of most trees and a better slope from island edge to the sea floor.