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Has anyone looked at what the traffic AI does at junctions

Odd thing to focus on but it is the tell for how much work went into the driving world.

In V, traffic at a junction waits its turn and pulls out into you. In the footage there are two moments where a car hesitates, then commits, then a second car adjusts around it. That is negotiation rather than queueing.

If that is systemic rather than scripted for the shot, dense traffic becomes something you can read and predict rather than something that just gets in the way.

tulipdriver6w ago

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vicebeachcam6w agoHaven't played

Fair and correct. Two moments in forty minutes is suggestive and nothing more.

wainkscanner3d agoHaven't played

Traffic reacting to the police rather than to the player is a much bigger claim than the junction thing and it deserves its own look.

vicebeachcam6w agoHaven't played

I went back and looked at the junction you are describing. The hesitation is two frames of deceleration before the commit, which is not something you would animate by hand for a background car.

tulipdriver6w agoHaven't played

Readable is the word I wanted. In V you could not predict what a civilian car would do, so a collision felt like bad luck rather than a mistake.

slimjim_era1w agoHaven't played

coming to this after the showing and the traffic in the chase bit definitely reacts to the police rather than just to the player, which is a different thing again

keysrunner_886w agoHaven't played

If it is systemic then the traffic becomes readable, and readable traffic is the difference between a chase being tense and a chase being random.

codeinabox6w agoHaven't played

One shot is not a system though. Marketing footage is captured until it looks right and that includes retrying until the traffic behaves.

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