Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Streaming Deer Cam • Hacker News Board

Re: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Streaming Deer Cam

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Post by rshetty10 » Mon, Mar 21, 2016, 5:19 AM UTC

Why is the Deer taking rest now. I am so bored, I really want it to start moving again. I miss the deer.

Re: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Streaming Deer Cam

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Post by bbradley406 » Mon, Mar 21, 2016, 5:21 AM UTC

haddr wrote: post #8

mjn wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hah, that's the first (serious) glitch I've seen in about an hour of watching. It periodically respawns in a random part of the world, and looks like it had the bad luck to respawn in a mineshaft this time. I'm actually surprised it doesn't get stuck more often in other situations. Its controller seems pretty good at avoiding it.

Too bad he can't use his antlers...

The animals in GTA:V do have attacks (sharks, dogs and mountain cats bite, etc). If you use a mod to play as an animal it becomes your melee attack.

Modding support in the GTA series is excellent, and has spawned a large community. It's refreshing to see as locked down games with DLC sold for extra are becoming the norm, with a few notable exceptions such as the Fallout series.

I've been having a lot of fun using a police mod where you can spawn FIB elite units that are allies. It'd be great to command an animal army as well!

Re: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Streaming Deer Cam

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Post by _delirium » Mon, Mar 21, 2016, 5:24 AM UTC

recursive wrote: post #42

nness wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm seeing the HTML5 player.

What browser? I'm using chrome, and I had to use the devtools to hide the overlays so I could get it to play. Now the video is showing behind the text on the page, but at least I can see it.

I seem to get the HTML5 viewer by default in Firefox on OSX.

Re: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Streaming Deer Cam

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Post by yeukhon » Mon, Mar 21, 2016, 5:29 AM UTC

I am surprise there is no mention of machine learning...

Re: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Streaming Deer Cam

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Post by tlrobinson » Mon, Mar 21, 2016, 5:39 AM UTC

I'm curious how much work this is. Was the deer an existing character in the game that they repurposed via a simple hack, or did they have to model and animate the deer, write a bunch of AI for it, etc.

Re: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Streaming Deer Cam

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Post by nness » Mon, Mar 21, 2016, 5:52 AM UTC

recursive wrote: post #42

nness wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm seeing the HTML5 player.

What browser? I'm using chrome, and I had to use the devtools to hide the overlays so I could get it to play. Now the video is showing behind the text on the page, but at least I can see it.

Chrome, OSX.

Re: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Streaming Deer Cam

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Post by q1t » Mon, Mar 21, 2016, 6:02 AM UTC

Could not find the information who has programmed that deer. The author or Rockstar?

Re: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Streaming Deer Cam

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Post by atomical » Mon, Mar 21, 2016, 6:15 AM UTC

Attaching a GPS device to a deer and then moving the deer in-game would be even weirder.

Re: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Streaming Deer Cam

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Post by atroyn » Mon, Mar 21, 2016, 6:21 AM UTC

prawn wrote: post #12

Sad to say that it's better viewing than almost all free-to-air TV in Australia. Someone should extend this to script a series of characters in various games and automate Twitch production to make a living.

Salty Bet does something very similar to that. When there's no major e-sports matches going on, various automated fighting game characters (including custom community submitted characters) are pitted against one another in fights, which are streamed live.

The audience places bets.

Re: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Streaming Deer Cam

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Post by zzleeper » Mon, Mar 21, 2016, 7:05 AM UTC

"The San Andreas Deer Cam is currently experiencing technical difficulties and will be back soon. Above is footage recorded on 2/29/16." I think we crashed it..