Author Topic: Ground vehicles awareness'!  (Read 965 times)

DaveG587

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Ground vehicles awareness'!
« on: September 08, 2022, 08:05:19 pm »
Could we not have it so that GSX ground vehicles are aware of both GSX vehicles and the aircraft, so we do not have vehicles driving through other vehicles or the aircraft.

Also, is there a method to edit the path the vehicles take, as seen a few buses going strange! (Vagar EKVG)

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Re: Ground vehicles awareness'!
« Reply #1 on: September 14, 2022, 08:44:48 am »
It's just that we forgot the magical "vehicles_awareness = true" switch in our code...

I hope you would excuse the pun, because you make it sound as it was something easy to add, when the whole automotive world, with billions of budgets and an army of developers has been struggling for *years* to do something like that in a reliable what, that is autonomous driving with vehicles "aware" of each other.

In MSFS, this could be possibly even ore complex, because we are even more restricted by the fact we can't see any of the static structures of the airport so, even we accepted the enormous strain placed on the sim that would require having vehicles checking the position of all vehicles around them at each frame ( spamming Simconnect and hammering the main thread ), it would still not work very well, since we would miss any information about buildings and other obstacles in the airport that are not ground vehicles or airplanes.

A LOT of the problems you reported could be fixed with:

- Editing the starting location of GSX vehicles to better suit a specific parking spot

- Using a well designed airport, with vehicle parking spots placed in realistic ways, and dedicated vehicle paths that, as in real life, are designed to prevent ground vehicle to cross taxiway as rarely as possible.