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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 rob74 »

anslo wrote: post #125
TheRealPomax wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, but if the title of the site is "slow roads" and it's billed as "slow and chill", then careening down a road with half your car in the oncoming traffic lane at 80 miles an hour by default is not a good default. It's a bit like a "ambient study music" site that plays darkstep with flashing lights when you press "just play me something to study to" =)

Ha, true. I'll see to making it a little less reckless, and probably give a setting to have it follow a lane, if it isn't too difficult. The idea of a "slow road" is more about taking the scenic route - back roads like these tend to have some of the highest speed limits, at least in the UK.

> back roads like these tend to have some of the highest speed limits

I assume that's because there are some roads still left where they're trusting drivers' common sense to not try to drive as fast as they're theoretically allowed to.

Re: A chill driving game with procedurally generate scenic landscapes

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Post by yreg »

psychoslave wrote: post #172

Nice and funny. Adding more details in grasses would make it awesome. The sounds are especially nice. On physics side, the car will really stick to the ground, even when jumping beyond a hill. Also, where are the horse/dragon versions? :D

>the car will really stick to the ground

I've got some airtime on the Moon map.

Re: A chill driving game with procedurally generate scenic landscapes

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Post by huhtenberg »

TheRealPomax wrote: post #144
anslo wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ha, true. I'll see to making it a little less reckless, and probably give a setting to have it follow a lane, if it isn't too difficult. The idea of a "slow road" is more about taking the scenic route - back roads like these tend to have some of the highest speed limits, at least in the UK.

Here in Canada 80kph is the maximum for back roads, but when it's twisty by nature, or it's straight with a few turns but has a cliff to one side, that road is a 60kph road. Add most of the time anything S-bend or hard turns will be on a 40kph advisory. No going 115+ in a blind corner over a road that will launch you off the side of a mountain if you steer poorly =D

Don't know whereabouts you are in Canada, but in BC and Alberta all speed limits are excruciatingly low. So much so that it's a norm to drive 20km/h over the limit on the highways and the police won't bother at all until it's an excess of that.

This also makes for an excellent emergency budget fill-ups at the end of the quarter - just set a photoradar in the 50 zone where everyone everyday go 80 and, voila, - no deficit.

Re: A chill driving game with procedurally generate scenic landscapes

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Post by huhtenberg »

userbinator wrote: post #114
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

That's ~130km/h for those on the other side of the world... which is a normal average speed on the Autobahn.

Ditto for France and Italy.
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