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Re: Nightdrive

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Post by gavmor »

jordemort wrote: post #22

I love this. I'd love an idealized version where nobody ever passes on the right even more.

Notice oncoming traffic is also on the right? It's UK traffic. For peace of mind, try tossing a `transform: scaleX(-1)` on the element.

Re: Nightdrive

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Post by masswerk »

BTW, while we may think that driving is a universal thing, I instantly found it amazing how North American this is. From the integrated indicators, to cars passing on your right, to the road lights and even how the road undulates. Having said that, great project!

Edit: Well I got this entirely wrong and missed that this was meant to be lefthand traffic. (I caught a segment that looked more like there was an independent road passing an interstate crossing a city, rather than being opposite lanes.)

Re: Nightdrive

#53

Post by berkut »

masswerk wrote: post #52

BTW, while we may think that driving is a universal thing, I instantly found it amazing how North American this is. From the integrated indicators, to cars passing on your right, to the road lights and even how the road undulates. Having said that, great project! Edit: Well I got this entirely wrong and missed that this was meant to be lefthand traffic. (I caught a segment that looked more like there was an independe…

Erm, the cars are driving on the left (red taillights on left side of motorway, white headlights on right)... wouldn't North America be the other way around, with cars overtaking on the left?

Re: Nightdrive

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Post by mbrameld »

masswerk wrote: post #52

BTW, while we may think that driving is a universal thing, I instantly found it amazing how North American this is. From the integrated indicators, to cars passing on your right, to the road lights and even how the road undulates. Having said that, great project! Edit: Well I got this entirely wrong and missed that this was meant to be lefthand traffic. (I caught a segment that looked more like there was an independe…

I think it's from the UK or somewhere else that they drive on the left. Opposing traffic is on the right.

Re: Nightdrive

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Post by hugginn »

masswerk wrote: post #52

BTW, while we may think that driving is a universal thing, I instantly found it amazing how North American this is. From the integrated indicators, to cars passing on your right, to the road lights and even how the road undulates. Having said that, great project! Edit: Well I got this entirely wrong and missed that this was meant to be lefthand traffic. (I caught a segment that looked more like there was an independe…

Isn't this left hand traffic though? As in, not what you'd find in America? It feels very Swedish to me, except for the traffic direction.

Re: Nightdrive

#57

Post by otabdeveloper4 »

berkut wrote: post #53
masswerk wrote: post #52

BTW, while we may think that driving is a universal thing, I instantly found it amazing how North American this is. From the integrated indicators, to cars passing on your right, to the road lights and even how the road undulates. Having said that, great project! Edit: Well I got this entirely wrong and missed that this was meant to be lefthand traffic. (I caught a segment that looked more like there was an independe…

Erm, the cars are driving on the left (red taillights on left side of motorway, white headlights on right)... wouldn't North America be the other way around, with cars overtaking on the left?

He means cars overtaking you using the lane to your right. In Europe this is against the rules.

Re: Nightdrive

#58

Post by Joeri »

rezmason wrote: post #37
aerovistae wrote: post #33

> The biggest flaw is that the cars are totally transparent, This seems easily fixable, no? Just make cars opaque black and assign progressively decreasing z-index to each spawning light. (Unlikely anyone will leave page open long enough to reach min value, and you could just reset at that point.)

Someone with your level of optimism has an advantage. The tricky thing is, this project's renderer is currently a queue of circles to draw to a canvas. It's under 100 lines of JavaScript. So any increase in complexity will require substantial changes, like abstracting over types of drawables.

There’s probably a simple but effective way to do it, like drawing the body itself as a few black circles.
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