TI4 Generator

A web tool to generate Twilight Imperium 4 game boards through many custom settings.

Web Quick Start

Visit the web page located on github pages. This is running from the gh-pages branch.

Development Setup

1. Install Node and NPM for your OS using their website or brew on Mac (brew install node)
2. In the root directory of the cloned project, run npm install
3. Once it is done, you can start the development server with npm start. If a web page is not automatically opened, go to localhost:3000/ti4

Using the Tool

The tool has many features, go poke around! Here is a list of notable features:

• Automatic map generation based on user input. Options include:
  • Using new Prophecy of Kings content
  • Setting the player count
  • Setting what the board will look like from various custom maps
  • Setting how tiles are places by working with their weights
  • Seeding the generation with a custom number between 1-10,000
  • Automatically picking races for players
  • Set player names for showing on the map
  • Set races that can be picked from
  • Randomization of how tiles are placed
  • Moving better planets towards the middle
• Drag and drop tiles to customize your board
• Zoom in and out to get a better idea of what certain tiles are
• Show an overlay with the tile numbers for when you are ready to build your board
• Replace any tiles on the board with any unused tiles
• Show detailed information about the adjacenct planets to each home system
• Sharable links to send to your friends
• Copy the tile string to view in Table Top Simulator (TTS)

Pushing Changes to Github Pages

npm run deploy

Using react's gh-pages you can simply run the above command to deploy to the github page.