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After 16 months of work I'm ready to share slowroads.io, my project to procedurally generate scenic landscapes, packaged as a chill driving game. Built with

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to run in your browser - no logins, no installs, just roads... #threejs #procedural #webgl

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3:59 PM · Oct 22, 2022

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Here are some handy features that are unintentionally hidden: - U to toggle the UI - P to pause - F11 for fullscreen - F3 for FPS overlay - Hold \ and tap space to lock the handbrake - You can set "?seed=x&topo=[easy|normal|hard]" in the URL (more to come!)

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Found the perfect song for this experience

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Initial D - Deja Vu

Anime - Initial DSong - Deja VuArtist - Super Eurobeat - Dave RodgersAll rights and credits go to their respective owners.

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I'm not ashamed to admit that occasionally I unironically have had the 10 hour version playing while coding (though I prefer Gas Gas Gas 😉)

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anslo

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Oct 23, 2022

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Wow. It's great and works flawlessly. It would be nice if there was a transition from day to night depending on the driving time, obviously more or less accelerated. Also a transition between the seasons of the year in the middle of driving.

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There is a setting to run through a day-night cycle dynamically - check the lower-left scene menu. It won't do seasons, but I'll see if I can get that working in the future!

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This is excellent and will now run on a screen at the office 24/7. Possible to set the speed for AutoDrive? I want a really slow road 😀

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Yep! Turn on cruise control (the little padlock next to the speedo) and lower it to whatever you'd like. You can also disable pause-when-inactive in the settings so it'll keep playing in another window.

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What kind of techniques do you use to make smooth hills and stuff

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The heightmap algorithm is similar in concept to perlin noise (superimposed octaves of random grids) but uses a squared-distance function instead of dot-product. The results are a lot more blobby and hill-like.