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A chill driving game with procedurally generate scenic landscapes

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Re: A chill driving game with procedurally generate scenic landscapes

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Post by anslo »

cousin_it wrote: post #55
anslo wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a nice way to set fog to be two-tone - I'll play with that and see what I get. The default Summer mode has quite a distant fog, but the morning/evening weathers are a little mistier.

I don't mean fog, I mean just the fact that air is blue, so things get smoothly bluer with distance (or rather, more sky-colored). Check out any mountain landscape, nearby trees are green and distant ones are blue: https://live.staticflickr.com/1009/531101849_a7d297e0cc_b.jp...

True, though in practice that's the way fog is applied in the shader. With the two-tone setup I can have a blue hue in the foreground transitioning into the hard white at the edge of the view dist.

Re: A chill driving game with procedurally generate scenic landscapes

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Post by tech-historian »

I really enjoyed these settings:

- Autopilot on

- Using the motor bike

- Setting roads to "casual"

- Season to summer

- Cycle timer of 3 minutes

- Setting cruise control to max 120

- Hitting "c" until you get complete first person view

- View distance: Ultra

- Detail: Ultra

Very cool experience, sort of put me in a trance a bit.. and I can't quite put my finger on why!

Re: A chill driving game with procedurally generate scenic landscapes

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Post by Markoff »

_nalply wrote: post #44
anslo wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's interesting - the sea plane is set at a y position of 0 so I can't imagine how that could happen... You can press F3 to get a debug overlay showing your position, maybe you could verify that the Y value looks correct? Autodrive is in the middle of the road because it was much easier to implement. I'll see if I can get around to letting you choose a more legal lane-follow option.

I think what happened is that some people perceive they go upwards even when going flat. I discovered that after I once tried to stop at the top of a hill but already was beyond the top because the car started to roll down by itself. Perhaps you could adjust some angles of view?

that's what I tried, it always rolls back and I went clearly long time uphill and at best only flat, but clearly never went downhill to make up for same elevation as I gained to be back at same level with sea where I end up no matter how long I go uphill

Re: A chill driving game with procedurally generate scenic landscapes

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Post by whoopdedo »

xeonmc wrote: post #10

This would be great for Rally racing games, since it's all about reacting to unknown terrain. Also, it would be better if mouse steering is damping impulse based, i.e. every frame the steering position exponentially decays, mouse position resets to center and the change is added as impulse on the steering position. sensitivity = max_ang / ( screenwidth/2 ) decay_rate = 6.0 frame(dt){ dx = mouse.x - center_pos mouse.r…

Your description is that steering decays then has mouse impulse added, which makes sense to me. But the code decays the steering after adding the delta-X. Is there a reason for that?

Re: A chill driving game with procedurally generate scenic landscapes

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Post by TheRealPomax »

A small note: 80 miles an hour on windy roads, driving in the middle of the road, is not slow and chill. That's "I want to die" fast and reckless... maybe have two autodrive settings. "slow and chill" going appropriate speeds and driving correctly (left/right toggle?) and "landscape zoomies" or something for what it currently does. Right now auto pilot is literally stress inducing =D

Re: A chill driving game with procedurally generate scenic landscapes

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Post by MrFoof »

Kkoala wrote: post #43

Nice, looking great. Roadster feels like a super heavy electric car though :D Controller support would be great. Or I wonder if there is already some way to map the controller inputs? Browser extension maybe

Well, the roadster is also a 2+2 coupe reminiscent of a 5th generation Chevrolet Camaro, which is ~3860lbs (1750kg) for a V8.

A roadster would be a 2-seat convertible (no C-pillar), like a Mazda MX-5 (Miata) or a Porsche Boxster.

Re: A chill driving game with procedurally generate scenic landscapes

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Post by picture »

TheRealPomax wrote: post #67

A small note: 80 miles an hour on windy roads, driving in the middle of the road, is not slow and chill. That's "I want to die" fast and reckless... maybe have two autodrive settings. "slow and chill" going appropriate speeds and driving correctly (left/right toggle?) and "landscape zoomies" or something for what it currently does. Right now auto pilot is literally stress inducing =D

There is a cruise control option to the lower right. You can choose a slower speed

Re: A chill driving game with procedurally generate scenic landscapes

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Post by FpUser »

jstanley wrote: post #12

Really neat! My only complaint is that the handling is very sluggish. Also it might be nice to have a first-person vew, maybe the camera view contributes to the sluggish feeling. I love the procedurally-generated landscapes. It really captures the feeling of driving on unfamiliar roads. I'm curious how the physics works. Is this using raycast wheels? A couple of years ago I made a racing game for Oculus Quest using G…

>"Really neat! My only complaint is that the handling is very sluggish"

I tried it on PC, laptop (both are Windows) and on Google Pixel 6 Pro. All are very fluid. But reaction on keypress I think has slight constant delay. Not sure what's the reason. Anyways I used it on auto drive and just stared for a while.

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