{"id":7842,"date":"2010-04-24T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=7842"},"modified":"2010-04-23T16:52:31","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T21:52:31","slug":"immersion-the-videogame-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=7842","title":{"rendered":"Immersion: The Videogame Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is why you crash all over the place in Grand Theft Auto games:<\/p>\n<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nIRUavithF8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nIRUavithF8'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>In the introduction he talks about how driving a car in first-person mode is &#8220;inconvenient&#8221;.  This goes back to the need for in-game maps and how people tend to get lost more easily in games:  No peripheral vision.  Driving in GTA is no problem in first-person mode until you want to make a turn, at which point the whole thing falls apart. Not only do you not have peripheral vision, you can&#8217;t even turn your head.  <\/p>\n<p>This is an understandable limitation if the designer doesn&#8217;t want to have to make the interior of each and every car in the detail required for a proper in-cab view, but still: You can&#8217;t drive if you can&#8217;t see where you&#8217;re going, and sometimes you&#8217;re going ninety degrees to the right or left. Moving the camera up and behind the vehicle lets you see the stuff you need in order to make a reasonably safe turn, at the expense of introducing the problem depicted in the video. <\/p>\n<p>I do like the way Half-Life 2 handled vehicles, where you steer with the step left \/ right buttons and the mouse is used to move your head around.  It still can&#8217;t really cure your lack of peripheral vision, but it at least lets you turn your head to compensate.  I&#8217;d love to try that scheme in a proper metropolitan setting and see how it holds up in traffic. My hope is that I&#8217;d be able to drive from the apartment to the bowling alley without totaling my car in the process.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is why you crash all over the place in Grand Theft Auto games: Link (YouTube) In the introduction he talks about how driving a car in first-person mode is &#8220;inconvenient&#8221;. This goes back to the need for in-game maps and how people tend to get lost more easily in games: No peripheral vision. Driving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dream-cast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}