[WIP] Open-world driving sim

I really love your game, I prefer your game to my game ProjectR.
Everything are fantastics, fun to drive, beautifull.
For the physics you use Wheel colloder, MagicFormula?

 

He used CarX.

By the way, fantastic ambience!

 

Thanks! For the physics I use CarX, which sadly isn't sold anymore. I'm sure it would work with custom or any other car physics package as long as you implement a counter-steering response. CarX has a IMHO one of the best tire simulation formulas.

Thank you emergki! Most of the models are still place-holders but it's slowly getting there, atmosphere-wise. Really happy with the graphic improvements in Unity5 and the half-reduced GI baking times in 5.3 too.

 

How you did the road shader?

 

It's just the "Standard(specular setup)" shader. The alpha channel of the specular texture is important. You can check the attached "diff" and "spec" files if you wish. The normal map is just the "diff" texture with "create from greyscale, bumpiness: 0.039, filtering: smooth.
+ I'm using unity's SSSR: http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/cinematic-image-effects-pre-release-package.372562/

 

Hey my Friend! Thank you!!!
So the reflection is made by the SSSR.. Very cool my friend! Thank you!

 

This game looks so freaking good. I need to play this asap haha.

 

Hey, if you need anyone to work on this I'm available. Hit me up ASAP!

I can do 3D, C# whatever you need

 

How to stop a car:

PIT n' push

side ram

block

 

really cool.. is this game? or asset?

 

Well, there will be a playable demo! (cause, no demo, no crowdfunding). Just not sure if I'm capable of delivering it alone. I'm a one man band and I have no prior programming knowledge. It's already a F***ing miracle I've managed to get this far

Thanks! I do probably need a programmer but in the city I live in right now, which is Munich, unfortunately.

It's a game - although for the past years I've worked almost exclusively on the driving stuff.

 

This game looks amazing.
Your style (game and short film) kinda reminds me of Silent Hill ^^.

 

Thank you It's funny many people mention Silent Hill in reference to my work. I've never played it, just know it's foggy and there's some weird creatures. Maybe I should give it a try.

It's been first mentioned regarding this animation i did back in 2006:

 

Hey!, Maybe I can help you on some things, just let me know ;-)

 

Looks awesome!

 

This is looking great very atmospheric. Great job Soul-Challenger.
Is this the AI that controlling the car that is trying to stop the player? Very aggressive AI if so, Excellent work!

If your not a programmer how the heck are you accomplishing such nice work? Are you using a visual scripting tool or other method?

 

Thank you very much for you offer Emergki but I do need to find a programmer that lives in the same city as I do. I guess I'm an old-fashioned guy - being able to sit face to face to tackle such matters is important to me.

Thank you!

Thanks a lot Yes it's the car trying to stop the player that is AI. The stopping maneuvers did not take that long to setup. It was the driving behavior which took me "years". I needed the AI to be able to drive better than a very skilled player. A real challenge since this is not a closed track where you could apply an ideal racing line. In addition to that, I wanted the AI to "voluntarily" loose grip as much as possible (power sliding, late braking) to convey that typical cinematic car chase feel. And last but not least, since the beginning, I refrained myself from using any sort of cheating on the physics. Because one of the things I hate most in games is cheating AI (at least in driving games).

I'm a very stubborn guy . Just using C#, and mostly learning by doing. I did buy a book called "programming in C# with Unity" but haven't read it yet. Which is really stupid from me, because often, I did loose an enormous amount of time trying to get something to work while having absolutely no idea what I was doing. In fact I remember beginning to alter some scripts for my needs from the unity car example project back in 2012 and getting errors such as "cannot convert a bool to a float", and I was like: WTF is a bool? WTF is a float? Just a complete idiot wasting endless hours with an absolutely alien language. But I loved it, and yeah, I blame you @Unity !!!

I did have "computer science" class in secondary school where we were supposed to do some stuff using pascal6, if I remember correctly. That was in 94' and I hated it and skipped class mostly and had a very reluctant stance towards programming since then, until I met unity. In the past years I came to realize just how "creative" programming really is. I often do little drawings on paper of the behaviors I'd like to implement and then start writing code. In this case it's mostly about angles, distances, approaching speeds - but above all it's about creating a simplified system that can manage to control a virtual car in the same way a human being would do it.

And the last thing I would like to point out is: intuition. Sometimes I have a seemingly random idea how to solve a problem and it works!

Sorry for the long post

 

This looks way better than most AAA games out there for sure!
Will follow this game for sure.
Btw, what city are you located in?

 

Totally agree, I hate rubber banding (catch up mechanic) in racing games for AI or the player. I also really dislike how it seems in some racing games the AI seems to be able to get away with more than the player can, skirt the edge closer while traveling faster, avoid the ultimate crash, glitch into a positive outcome. Really isn't fun.

Keep at it - a demo build horror car chase of the player trying to run from / evade the chasing team of serial killers would be an instant try for me!

 

^
This ; )

 

Very nicely done!
It would be fit perfectly after a robbery when you try to escape!

 

Very impressive driving physics and "feel"!
BTW sent you a message some time ago, not sure if you got it.

 

Thanks to all for the great feedback! If anyone has info about a more competent driving AI, please let me know.

@Alex_V Thanks must have missed your PM, sorry. Answered today.

 

Started to work on the goons locomotion system. Trying to avoid animation clips and just make them move using physics only. For now it's very basic and looks quite retarded, but I thought I'd post anyway, just for laughs :

 

The atmosphere, driving, and vehicle AI in this all look amazing.

What volumetric lighting are you using at the moment? I saw you post this one, but I also saw you post in this more recent thread.

 

Very nice project!

 

So characteristic and interesting !
This could even start a new "Horror Racing" genre-mix ;P

Top notch work.
about your "guessing game" concerning the yellow or blue car being player-controlled:
I suspect you to be a bit cheeky here (!) and break the rules by guessing that both are AI- controlled, even !
Either way - I couldnt really tell, its to well made you beast.

 

Thank you For now, I'm sticking to my own fake volumetrics, for performance reasons. It's all made with particles.
Also tried Michal_'s "true volumetric lighting", which looks gorgeous, and now waiting for Unity's own volumetric solution to see how performant it will be.

Thanks!

Thanks a lot for your feedback yeah, definitely some genre-mixing coming up. Yellow car is player-controlled - cool it's hard to tell

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Time Rodent, the short animation film, from which this game takes some inspiration, will be broadcasted on Arte this upcoming weekend (+ available for watching for 7 days). World premiere :http://www.arte.tv/guide/fr/051125-000-A/time-rodent

 

So pretty. How do you achieve the terrain deformation?

 

recently via the ats Colormap Ultra v3 shader which supports tessellation. Previously used to deform the terrain with Get/SetHeights, but that's quite slow and performance is only good on tiny terrain sizes (129 heightmap res).

 

Unfortunately, I can't seem to be able to link to gifs on imgur here anymore...

Here are some more recent videos:

 

Hi @Soul_Challenger, any updates on this awesome game? Would like to check how the things are going on the project .