Noise Generator

An interactive C++ desktop application for generating and visualizing procedural 2D noise with customizable parameters, real-time preview rendering, and flexible preset management.

✨ Features

• ✅ Procedural 2D noise generation (Perlin + turbulence + marbling)
• ✅ Real-time GUI interface using ImGui with docking support
• ✅ Adjustable parameters: resolution, seed, roughness, marbling, frequency skips
• ✅ Turbulence distortion with exponential shifting and offsets
• ✅ Support for preset saving, loading, and deletion via .json
• ✅ Live preview of generated noise textures
• ✅ Export to .png, .tga, .bmp and .jpg formats
• ✅ Built-in logger (with UI panel and save-to-file functionality)
• ✅ Asynchronous generation with visual progress

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📸 Preview

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🧩 Supported Noise Types

Available in the NoiseType:

• Value
• Perlin
• Simplex
• FBM (Fractal Brownian Motion)
• Worley
• Ridged
• Billow
• DomainWarp
• Cellular
• Voronoi
• Gabor
• White Noise
• OpenSimplex

📦 Easily extendable via NoiseType, generator dispatch, and serialization logic.

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💾 Presets System

Each preset saves the full set of NoiseProperties, resolution, and noise type:

• ✅ Save current parameters to a .json preset
• ✅ Load and apply presets instantly via combo box
• ✅ Delete presets via GUI
• ✅ Stored in presets/ folder as JSON files

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🧩 Dependencies

Library	Purpose
GLFW	Window & input handling
GLAD	OpenGL function loader
Dear ImGui	GUI rendering
Native File Dialog	Native File Dialog
inih	.INI file parser
stb_image_write	PNG & TGA image saving
OpenGL 4.3+	GPU rendering backend
IconsFontAwesome5	icons for ImGui

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🛠 Building & Development

This project uses CMake ≥ 3.11 and automatically fetches all dependencies via FetchContent. No manual setup is required.

✅ Requirements

• CMake ≥ 3.11
• C++17 compatible compiler
• OpenGL 4.3+ capable GPU
• Internet connection (to fetch dependencies)

🔧 Quick Start (Windows / Visual Studio)

To build and run the project with minimal effort:

git clone https://github.com/VaeDeveloper/NoiseGenerator.git
cd NoiseGenerator
dev_ops\generate_project.bat
dev_ops\build_project.bat

🧪 Running Tests

You can configure and build tests using a special flag:

dev_ops\generate_project.bat
change 3 - testing options

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🧠 Roadmap / Ideas

• Export to .bmp / .jpg
• Native File Dialog (save/load image)
• Save/load presets as .json
• Multi-threaded generation (tile-based)
• GPU acceleration (OpenGL compute shaders)
• Save/restore UI layout (ImGui settings)
• CLI interface for headless noise export

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📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.